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Anything Else (2003)
I don't think I'll ever find a movie made by Woody Allen that I completely dislike. This is the nineteenth Allen picture I watched and once again it was a funny film with some good dialogue and some hilarious moments. It is, however, nowhere near his best work.
The plot revolves around a guy, named Jerry Falk (played by Jason Biggs), who is a comedy writer. He is extremely in love with a girl, Amanda (Christina Ricci) and he tells us a little about his life by regularly breaking the fourth wall.
While his relationship with Amanda is getting worse, he tells us a little about the history of the relationship in flashbacks and also about the other problems in his life.
David Dobel (Woody Allen), also a comedy writer, becomes a kind of crazy mentor for Jerry during the course of the movie and together they talk about life while walking through Central Park. Dobel gives Jerry advice and helps him to do some necessities so Jerry can turn around his degrading (love and career) life.
Because the film is filled with clever comedy and a 'full' storyline, the film holds your attention the whole time. In my opinion, however, it lacked some real and serious drama to support the comic scenes. Allen tried to put some elements of drama in it, but he refuses to actually deal with them. I like Allen's work better when he's a little more cynical or darker.
In this film he couldn't strike me because I didn't really care about the characters' faith. This was mainly due to the fact that the characters don't really care about themselves either (or so it seems).
I still was able to like the movie because of the dialogue. Allen's character, for example, constantly nails conversations with funny jokes. It's actually the only character that really appealed to me in this whole movie, mainly because he's the only one that delivers some insightful, Allen-like one liners (although he's absurdly crazy at some other points).
It was all in all a pretty enjoyable watch, but without the real magic that Allen is capable of creating.
I rate this movie:
+
Anything Else (2003)
I don't think I'll ever find a movie made by Woody Allen that I completely dislike. This is the nineteenth Allen picture I watched and once again it was a funny film with some good dialogue and some hilarious moments. It is, however, nowhere near his best work.
The plot revolves around a guy, named Jerry Falk (played by Jason Biggs), who is a comedy writer. He is extremely in love with a girl, Amanda (Christina Ricci) and he tells us a little about his life by regularly breaking the fourth wall.
While his relationship with Amanda is getting worse, he tells us a little about the history of the relationship in flashbacks and also about the other problems in his life.
David Dobel (Woody Allen), also a comedy writer, becomes a kind of crazy mentor for Jerry during the course of the movie and together they talk about life while walking through Central Park. Dobel gives Jerry advice and helps him to do some necessities so Jerry can turn around his degrading (love and career) life.
Because the film is filled with clever comedy and a 'full' storyline, the film holds your attention the whole time. In my opinion, however, it lacked some real and serious drama to support the comic scenes. Allen tried to put some elements of drama in it, but he refuses to actually deal with them. I like Allen's work better when he's a little more cynical or darker.
In this film he couldn't strike me because I didn't really care about the characters' faith. This was mainly due to the fact that the characters don't really care about themselves either (or so it seems).
I still was able to like the movie because of the dialogue. Allen's character, for example, constantly nails conversations with funny jokes. It's actually the only character that really appealed to me in this whole movie, mainly because he's the only one that delivers some insightful, Allen-like one liners (although he's absurdly crazy at some other points).
It was all in all a pretty enjoyable watch, but without the real magic that Allen is capable of creating.
I rate this movie:
+