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Avg. Critic Score: 49 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    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 full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    The movie is hilarious...there's Rock's encounter with Viagra, which I can't describe but has to be one of the funniest scenes of the decade. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    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 full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust

    Despite the creakiness of the vehicle, there are some genuinely funny moments and observations. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    The movie, instead, is a work of giddy self-sabotage that seems determined to matter and not matter at the same time. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Mixing Rock with ooh-la-la turns out to be as appetizing as chalk and cheese. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Brian Lowry

    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 full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The movie, full of wan gags and tedious situations, is directed blandly by Rock. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    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 full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    In I Think I Love My Wife, Chris Rock does something entirely unexpected. He isn't funny. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Rock's so-so temptation comedy earns its R rating.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that, like Chris Rock's popular stand-up routines (think HBO, not Saturday Night Live), this comedy contains graphic sexual banter and innuendo. Rock plays a successful, sex-starved husband who fantasizes about every attractive woman who passes by. When a super-sexy beauty from his past shows up with come-hither looks, he obsesses about her availability. The temptation to commit adultery -- even when depicted by a usually hilarious comedian like Rock -- isn't exactly kid- or teen-friendly material. There's no actual sex, but Rock's character definitely has sex on the brain. And he swears up a storm, too.
  • Families can talk about gender and objectification. Is it OK to think of women purely as sex objects? Does the movie offer any alternative perspectives on women? What messages do movies and TV shows send about adultery? Families can also talk about the movie's racial overtones. Was it odd that Richard was the only black executive at his firm? List some role models of successful (not just rich) African Americans in movies and on TV.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Richard spends most of the film objectifying women -- from beautiful passengers on the commuter train to cleavage-baring sales clerks and waitresses. Every beautiful woman is seen as a tease, flaunting her obvious sexuality -- except, of course, for Brenda. Nikki says that Richard has "n----r ears," because he listens to songs by black musicians.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Richard gets a thorough beat-down from Nikki's thuggish ex-boyfriend.
  • sex false3 Sex: Although there's very little actual sex -- just one scene of foreplay when the camera lingers on a woman in a bra and thong panties -- there's plenty of sexual banter: "I can't wait to suck your d--k," "Are you still f--king?," "She's like a work of art I'd like to mount," etc.
  • language false5 Language: Do you even have to wonder? Like Rock's stand-up routine, the movie has plenty of profanity, from racial terms like the "N" word and "cracker" to dozens of "f--k"s and its derivatives. There's also a lot of sex talk, like "d--k" and "p---y."
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: More product placements than usual: Chopard watches, Porsche convertible, Volvo station wagon, iPods, and Saks Fifth Avenue, to name just a few. And, of course, Viagra.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Viagra might as well have received its own film credit since it's so heavily featured as the drug of choice for George and, later, Richard. Nikki also smokes incessantly, even in smoke-free places, and Richard gets drunk at a Manhattan nightclub. Two couples have wine at dinner.
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