Okay, we've got the cad, we've got the babe...er, babes...and a good deal of summary regarding each character's various skills and hang-ups, socially and in bed...
But we have an ersatz Woody with really bad timing and no funny gestures, and no wide-eyed chick who just wants to LEARN Woody Allen esthetics!
Woody Allen's movies have been suffering for quite a while from a sort of emotional inertia, moving always in the same direction, but getting more and more frantic and overstated. Lately I've seen no reason to pay attention -- but I have anyway. Why? Because Woody Allen, himself, is FUNNY.
He is, in fact, the best thing left in his movies; and now he's not there at all. What does that tell you?
But we have an ersatz Woody with really bad timing and no funny gestures, and no wide-eyed chick who just wants to LEARN Woody Allen esthetics!
Woody Allen's movies have been suffering for quite a while from a sort of emotional inertia, moving always in the same direction, but getting more and more frantic and overstated. Lately I've seen no reason to pay attention -- but I have anyway. Why? Because Woody Allen, himself, is FUNNY.
He is, in fact, the best thing left in his movies; and now he's not there at all. What does that tell you?
