Every husband wants a flawless spouse, right?

In 2004, Frank Oz released a remake of the 1975 movie “The Stepford Wives.”

The science fiction comedy all begins when a top-notch woman named Joanna Eberhart (played by Nicole Kidman) moves with her family to Stepford, Connecticut in order to restore her sanity upon losing her job.

Quickly, Joanna realizes that this town is not normal. All the wives in Stepford look the same, act the same and lack any sort of personality.

They are all so perfect, it is discomforting. Stepford is like an alternate universe or a man’s dream world filled with Barbie dolls for wives.

While every wife in town is obedient, Joanna and her few friends have a hard time conforming. Eventually she notices that her friends have started acting like the rest of the town.

What is it that seems to be brainwashing everyone, and will Joanna conform to be like the rest of the town?

“The Stepford Wives” satirizes a man’s ideal woman. The film mocks the way society expected women to be in the 50s. Expectation of the ideal wife was a stay-at-home mom who spent plenty of the time in the kitchen and was obedient to her husband.

Netflix rates the movie with 3 out of 5 stars and I find this rating to be accurate. I thought the film was silly and entertaining.

Although the film never bored me, not even halfway through the movie I had already predicted the ending. I would recommend watching “The Stepford Wives” with an open mind or you might get annoyed by every actor’s ditsy facade.

It has a talented cast, but with all the predictability and cheesiness I would have never expected “The Stepford Wives” to have won 3 Golden Trailer Awards.