I Think I Love My Wife A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - R It's 1:34 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

Richard is a mid-successful investment dude in Manhattan. He loves his family, thinks he loves his wife, Brenda (Gina Torres), but their relationship is hitting a rough patch, mostly, at least for Richard, because Brenda doesn’t have sex with him anymore. This is driving him crazy, and he now starts noticing the attributes of women around him. Enter Nikki (Kerry Washington). Nikki is from Richard’s past, a party girl who Richard had the hots for before he settled down, but Nikki was his friend’s girl, so back then he didn’t pursue anything. But Nikki’s back, wearing revealing outfits and seeming to have only one thing on her mind – seduce Richard into sleeping with her. Nikki keeps showing up and getting Richard to take her out to lunch, she comes up with fun things for them to do together, and even though everything screams "Don’t trust this girl, Richard!", well, Richard is hypnotized by the power of her, well, womanhood, and keeps convincing himself they are just friends.

As things go when things go like this, Brenda begins to become suspicious of Richard even though technically nothing physical has happened, yet, and Richard’s life begins to fall apart. His co-workers look at him with disgust, another womanizing co-worker, George (Steve Buscemi in role you wouldn’t see him playing yet it works well), tries to explain to Richard the mistake he is about to make, Richard’s performance at work suffers, and Nikki almost gets Richard shot and fired. And you would think the almost shot and almost fired would convince the seeming level-headed Richard to keep Nikki away, but her power must be unbelievable because Richard still can’t keep away.

The interesting thing about this movie is that Chris Rock doesn’t sugar-coat this romantic-ish comedy, keeping it at the level of his stand-up act, with language that is truly adult, and not PG-13’d to allow the teens in. Nope, this is really a movie for adults, about adult issues, and even about some racial issues, and for the most part entertaining, up until the "What the hell?" ending.

Look, I found the Nikki character a little too unbelievable, compared to what should be a more level-headed Richard, especially when Richard ends up in Washington D.C. with her, but I was able to get through that. And even though the ambulance scene would have been better placed in a movie like "The 40 Year Old Virgin" rather than in "I Think I Love My Wife," it made me laugh a lot. But when Richard and Brenda burst into song in the final moments, I just couldn’t believe it. It was goofy, and I think the movie would have been better off just ending with a heart-to-heart conversation, followed by the make-up sex they truly seemed to need.

"I Think I Love My Wife" took, I suppose, a pretty honest look at how husbands get frustrated when their wives forget sex is an important part of the relationship, with the edginess of a Chris Rock stand-up routine (he narrates the movie). Nowhere in that routine is a musical number, like the one at the end of this movie. It’s 3 stars out of 5. It would have been an easy 4 without the singing.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!