From: nono@na.net   
      
   "marianne casper"  wrote in message   
   news:rm3bf.9665$Lv.3846@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net...   
   > Finally saw this. I enjoyed Will Farrell but was pretty bored by most of   
   > it. I didn't dislike it as much as CotJS or He though. Are people seeing   
   > it or not? There's not much action here.   
   > Marianne   
      
   I saw it recently too and was surprised by how much I liked it. In fact, I   
   wondered if I liked it more only because I didn't enjoy the last few films   
   very much. It isn't one of his greats but it certainly seems to work much   
   more than "Anything Else" did. What I can't figure out is why. It has so   
   much of the same familiar Allen content (New York artists and intellectuals,   
   neurosis, relationships and infidelity, the old jazz standards score, etc.)   
   yet, it works here and seemed tired and clichéd in his recent films. Maybe   
   one reason is the actors here are a bit older and don't have the teen movie   
   baggage that Ricci and Biggs do. Some people commented that the characters   
   in AE seemed too young to be listening to old jazz. Was AE not as good   
   because of the casting? I thought Ricci was really good but maybe she and   
   Biggs were too young and seemed to be imitating the 30 and 40 somethings   
   found in most of Allen's work.   
      
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