I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
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Kerry Washington & Gina Torres
  
       
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    I think I hated this movie!
Perhaps Rock tries to stretch himself further than his talents currently allow, but next time he could pull off something masterful.
This insincere, even phony, film is so laugh-
The movie completes the trilogy of middlebrow ineptitude that began with Earth and continued through Head of State to Wife, the weakest of these puny pictures. It proves conclusively that a comically castrated Rock is useless.
It's good to see Rock in a semiserious role for once, but this glossy comedy of temptation overcome lacks any raison d'�tre. Profanity and obviousness are no substitute for the wit and subtle insights of the original film.
The most shocking thing about I Think I Love My Wife isn't the language, the sex, or the racial humor. It's the fact that it's not a funny movie. At all.
Spazzing bubbles of slapstick humor, melodrama, musical numbers and sterile jokes emphasize Rock's unpolished acting and directing abilities.
While the movie gets at a couple of truths about marriage, it's just not that funny. The pacing sags and the story-Rock's observations seem authentic. The problem is they aren't especially funny.
Wife is profane, awkward, and sprinkled with a strange racial subtext; basically the cinematic equivalent of Rock himself.
A film that expends all of its energy canceling itself out ... The flopsweat could be measured in gallons.
Comes up a bit short on both laughs and psychology.
Rock keeps going and going and going until this movie absolutely falls apart. You know it and feel it as Rock and Torres break into song.
 Says all the poignant things that Rock manages to say so well in his comedy act, but does it with more finesse and charm.
Its source is not Rock's own material -A tired reworking of The Seven Year Itch in which scripter Rock supplies star Rock with unfunny lines and dumb situations that director Rock stages without any style.
The problem with Chris Rock writing, directing, and starring in a film is that every character winds up talking just like Chris Rock.
Just because this union of artist and material isn't a complete mind-If Rock wants to ... spread his wings, fine. Just don't call it a comedy when it's something like I Think I Love My Wife. I don't think I love it much.
The film might be a wake-
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Average Rating: 5.2/10
I Think I Love My Wife is first and foremost a sex comedy. But Rock is sharp enough to set it in a world where people of all races share the same dreams and desires -Rock's depiction of women as either pouting spoilsports, nagging, frigid soccer moms or man-As uneven as I Think I Love My Wife often is, it still has an emotional resonance lacking in most films about relationships. By dealing with temptation in even a quasi-There are some raucous set pieces and a lot of frank, jokey talk about sex, but I Think I Love My Wife is not after crude or easy hilarity, and Mr. Rock works hard to hold his aggressive, irrepressible comic personality in check.
Rock has taken [Eric] Rohmer's marvelously probing, psychologically refined, exquisitely yakky, and deeply French movie and turned it into a coarse-Rock is so fixed on crude jokes, he neglects to create realistic characters and a story that's compelling to follow.
Rock finally provides hope he will develop into a genuine force on the big screen. The script is sharp and quick, and Rock's direction is sure-There�s a lot to recommend here, and it�s a stepping stone to even more impressive work from Chris Rock.
Rock fails to develop the characters caught in their conjugal and singleton traps. As usual, his observational humor zings (and stings) -
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