What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.
Very good dialogue, the rest of this stuff just falls apart.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
14 Jun 2004
rotten:
It has two speeds -- obvious and more so.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
15 Jun 2004
fresh:
It has a wonderfully wounding malice directed at both the Stepford, Conn., contingent of Energizer Bunny wives and the New Yorkers who have just moved in.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
17 Jun 2004
rotten:
To paraphrase Paul Rudnick's Premiere magazine movie-critic alter ego, Libby Gelman-Waxner: It's flat, cold, fork-resistant and tasteless, if you ask me.