From: david_shayne@hotmail.com   
      
   Hello,   
      
   Yeas, I did my homework (because it is no longer a pure pleasure like   
   before) and I went to see Anything Else. What a bad movie !   
      
   On a premiere night, we were about 20 people in the audience and 15 of us   
   were teens that were there for Jason Biggs, I guess. In the middle of the   
   movie, about 8 young people left. I did not see the long hard-time fans with   
   the grey beards that I usually see even if Allen serves us another   
   "Hollywood Ending".   
      
   Needless to say, the screenplay is not inspired. Imagine a kind of "Annie   
   Hall" love affair mixed with a mother-in-law from Hannah and Her Sister, a   
   manager for has-been like in Broadway Danny Rose and a cocaine scene like in   
   Annie Hall. The guy is doing the same movie year after year with a screeplay   
   written in one week !   
      
   Of course, it is a verbal movie with almost no plot or action in the   
   screenplay. Just keep in mind that it is a story about a writer who will   
   decide to go California at the end. Meanwhile, he's having hard times with   
   his girlfriend who is weird a little. The secondary characters are going   
   nowhere. Also, the fact that you have 3 main characters (Ricci, Biggs and   
   Allen himself) playing a Woody Allen type of person is way too much !   
      
   The only thing I liked was the fact that Allen seemed to suggest that   
   analysis is just a way to tell your problems to someone who is never going   
   to say a thing on those problems. The only good moments are usually with   
   Allen, even he brought very boring and discouraging moments (remember him   
   trying to move the piano ? We are far from Sleeper here...).   
      
   The time when we used to say that a bad Allen movies was better that almost   
   80% of what is being released has ended. See any movies from 1974 to 1994   
   before seeing Anything Else. And prey that someone at Dreamworks will stop   
   spending millions to film such poor screenplays. What a shame !   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)