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Title: A gross parody of the original
Review: The first Stepford Wives was a wicked satire on domestic bliss, this one is an abomination. It seemed Frank Oz was hoping to make some kind of dark comedy out of the original movie, but no one seemed to know where to go in this movie, waiting for the mighty Oz to signal the command. There are a few comic moments but they seem lost in this pathetic tale of suburbia borrowed more from the antebellum South than from suburban Connecticut. It was a real disappointment to see such fine actors reduced to playing parodies of the original movie. Oz defies all logic in the end, as he tries to undo the Stepford Wives forgetting that they were robots, not programmed women. How else does one expect a woman to swallow a credit card and spit out twenty dollars? Maybe it should have rose up from her low cut top, at least that would have fit into the crude male fantasy world Oz created. Don't waste your money, buy the original, it is much more eerie and compelling.
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