I Think I Love My Wife

Director: Chris Rock
(2007)

This film is totally predictable and I hate, HATE the title. You think you love your wife? you think you love her? you married her! how could you NOT love her, idiot? You know what's going to happen. You know that the main character, played by Chris Rock, who at first glance is a good husband, father, banker is tired and bored of his married life, you know that a femme fatale will enter the picture and take him on a wild ride for a few weeks and that even though they may not be having sex, he's lusting after her, and that in the end he'll end up going back to his wife. Good always prevails in the end.

At some points I can understand Cooper's desire to stray from his boring marriage as the wife was unreasonably boring and she withheld from him which I have to assume would be most disappointing in marriage. I dont know what was most annoying about the wife character: the time at the car show when she was more interested in the Minivans than the hot dream cars at the car show or the fact that well, there is no difference in any of her scenarios she was just boring all together. Just enough to go along with the rest of the dry movie.
I wasn't particularly impressed with the femme fatale character either. Kerry Washington just wasn't the right choice in casting. Her demeanor calls for demure characters not the balls out, supersexy coquette she plays in I Think I Love My Wife.

The film is obviously staged so that you sympathize with Chris Rock's character but there is no way that I could sympathize with him. He cheats on his wife! Though, not in a sexual way, in a way where he lies to her and gives his precious time to another woman with intentions of having a sexual relationship with her. That doesnt inspire sympathy within me. I was, however, glad that he went back to his wife in the end because nothing is more important than the sanctity of marriage and family and I am glad that even through the problems the couple was able to work out their differences. It sends the message that divorce is not the only option, marriages can be saved.