Mildly diverting is about the best that can be said for The Stepford Wives, a remake so pointless it could be about as entertaining as daytime tv.. Adapted from Ira Levin's chilling novel as a comedy, as opposed to the nifty 70's thriller which made the title a household phrase, the makers have missed out one crucial ingredient: Laughs.
Nicole Kidman (Moulin rouge, practical magic) plays Joanna, a burnt-out TV executive who gets fired from her job and is driven to the 50's suburb of stepford, where rich, style-free, god awful men live with impossibly beautiful and servile women.
As we arrive we already know that something is suspect and it's not just the scriptÂ…
The original film, though far from flawless itself, stirred in the extra ingredient of sexual politics, playing on men's fear of powerful women abandoning the home for the workplace. In the 21st century Stepford, Kidman is a high flier whose career crash leads her to question "maybe I've become the wrong kind of......
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