The first time I watched this movie I thought it was a cheesy movie with big name actors. I hated the characters and found it to be too unbelievable even for a fictionalized movie. I was annoyed by it and thought the storyline had potential, but just fell flat. However, the second time I watched it, I realized a lot of subtle things that I missed the first time around. Johanna developed TV shows that destroyed people's marriages and ruined particularly the men's lives when their wives would choose the hunks over their spouse. Stepford was just like that, but for men to have the upper hand. The men had the power over the women in a 50's TV show-like community. Johanna did not care about the men's lives that she ruined or even about how she was playing the role of God in people's marriages. Stepford was like her being in one of her shows. It was like a parallel universe. I noticed the character development of how Johanna really tried to fix her marriage and cared for her husband over being in control, which was different from Claire who couldn't stand not being in control that she changed the mindset of everyone in Stepford. If you hated this movie, give it a second watch. There will be a lot of things that you may have missed.

I like how men behave in the film. Unlike many other films, men in this film are weak, selfish and to some degree quite true. The idea of robots does not make too much sense to me but it looks like a practical way to solve the problem of men. I also like the way how tradition is presented in the film and the AOL joke.

The Stepford Wives (2004): Dir: Frank Oz / Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, Glenn Close: Remake of the 1975 thriller only this time director Frank Oz chose to play this as a dark comedy. It is a film about image and the idea that these wives are so radiant. Nicole Kidman stars as a successful T.V. producer who is fired when one of her participants goes on a killing rampage. Her husband decides to move them to Stepford where "there is no crime, poverty or pushing." It is a place lined with beautiful mansions and women who are just too artificial. Another achievement by Oz who also made Bowfinger and What About Bob? Kidman is superb as a woman surviving a nervous breakdown and learning that true love is never artificial. Matthew Broderick is well cast as her husband who is adopted into the Stepford Men's Club. Bette Midler steals scenes as a cynical novelist. Christopher Walken plays the head citizen who shelters a secret that won't be revealed here. Glenn Close plays the female who seems to second the Walken character and does so with a lot of spirit. Beautiful sets and art direction highlight despite a plot concept that isn't probable due to operation and effect. The film exposes consumerism and the reality that everybody has flaws and defects. It also exposes bad traditions and the reality that no place on earth is this pleasant. Score: 9 / 10

This ninety million dollar production is the parody of a perfect city, Stepford, embodying the capitalistic world idea of perfect life. The face of master actress Glenn Close and that of average actress Nicole Kidman, would both look better than 10 years ago if only plastic were better than skin, while they sadly are rendered incapable of expression by cosmetic surgery, to a degree making us feel thankful for surgery on eyes being impossible — or else Kidman would likely have already wasted her astounding ones as she did with her face.This version is however inferior to the original, dating 3 decades back in time, and while the representation of mass media and doll-women are well achieved, the film is quite barren of either any distinctive concept or seriously amusing joke. It can still be enjoyable if regarded as shallow entertainment.