I Think I Love My Wife Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Mr. Rock has not only done his best work as a director and screenwriter but has also made an unusually insightful and funny mainstream American movie about the predicaments of modern marriage.Read the full review
The main drawback is that under director Rock, actor Rock doesn't possess quite the chops to pull off this character, and the humor and flights of fancy are simply too low-key.Read the full review
The movie, full of wan gags and tedious situations, is directed blandly by Rock.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
What is missing in depth and philosophical intent is compensated for with humor and humanization.Read the full review
Despite the creakiness of the vehicle, there are some genuinely funny moments and observations.Read the full review
In I Think I Love My Wife, Chris Rock does something entirely unexpected. He isn't funny.Read the full review
I Think I Love My Wife has got to be the unlikeliest French New Wave classic ever to be retrofitted by a famous African-American stand-up comedian best known for his stinging social commentary -- at least until Dave Chappelle remakes Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" as a hip-hop caper.Read the full review
Mixing Rock with ooh-la-la turns out to be as appetizing as chalk and cheese.Read the full review
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-realistic way, it affirms that, like comedy, monogamy is hard.Read the full review
