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major plothole and slightly funny
by Garth (movies profile)
Mar 25, 2005
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21 people found this review helpful
The movie is slightly funny - but it is a dragging kind of funny. And there are a couple scenes which are meant to make the viewer feel compassion for Broderick's character...but it fails because he's in like 20 mins of the movie only! Really the only consistently funny character in the movie is Bette Midler's. She is great in this film. I wanted to point out a weird plot hole - those of you who haven't seen the film yet may want to stop reading at this point. All of the women in Stepford are NOT robots...they just have chips implanted in them. But yet, the characters often refer to them as robots. And, when Broderick and Kidman's characters go down the floor to supposedly implant the chip in her, there is this body-shell for her. What is its purpose? If all that changes is that the women get some chips installed in their heads, why do they even need that weird body-shell? It's as if Oz gave no thought to plot continuity. One minutes we are suppose to believe these new women are robots, the next we are suppose to think they just have chips in their heads - very odd. If they are not really robots, why does that one chick act as an ATM machine? I wouldn't think a few chips in one's head creates the ability to do an ATM withdrawl! This is a fairly major plot hole - shame on Frank Oz for letting it slide. |
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