The Stepford Wives

Frank Oz does not live on the planet earth. He lives in some other realm of which our kind are only privy to heavily censored home videos. Michael Gondry and Quinten Tarentino are present as well.
This movie is very, very funny at moments. There are several jokes that are well worth laughing aloud at, though I look back and I think that the three of us who went together were the only ones who actually got a lot of the jokes, as I don't remember hearing other people laughing. Maybe we were just too loud. as a whole, there are some rather large plot holes, like they were never entirely sure what their mythos was going to be: were the women being replaced with robots, or is it neo-brainwashing. Eventually they say it's chips that make them act like robots, but they show us the unfinished homunculus of Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler holds her hand on a lit gas stove for several seconds, and a woman shoots sparks out of her ears near the beginning. Whatever. The quick, snappy jokes and the chemistry between our underdogs is more than enough entertainment for a rental or second run theatre.

Total: 98