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Title: DVD DUD
Review: Great poster art does not a great movie make. Neither does a stellar cast (Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, Glenn Close) and director (Frank Oz).It's rumored THE STEPFORD WIVES (Paramount) had lots of problems during production that resulted in rewrites and reshoots. But the biggest problem was that producer Scott Rudin and writer Paul Rudnick couldn't get a handle on how to update the savage and chilling satire on feminism that drove the Ira Levin novel and the terrific 1975 film of which this is a hopelessly garbled remake.It's hard to do a movie about "the battle of the sexes" when there's no viable gender perspective from the producer and writer. This movie not only has no balls -- it makes no sense, is not scary and barely funny.Remember, time wasted on a bad movie is gone forever.Too bad duped and conned viewers can't unite in a class action lawsuit againt the producer (Scott Rudin here) for "movie malpractice and time stolen."
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