Reviews of Anything Else 2003
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Tarantino must be out of his mind
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It's a pale retread of Annie Hall, sure, but Annie Hall is the best film ever made.
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This one has been sitting with me really well. Allen captures troubled relationships and early life crisis so well here, and it's downright uproarious. Biggs and Ricci and Allen are all wonderful, and the movie is paced so perfectly. This is a great Allen entry. So glad I pulled this off the shelf.
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Boy did this film outstay it's welcome. Feeling like a bad cover version of his own great films (Annie Hall, Broadway Danny Rose...), this is lazy Woody Allen. Better than Hollywood Ending (I didn't cringe through this one) but I really struggled to like the protagonists and care what happened to them. Woody's own performance was actually a highlight though...the focus should have been on his character.
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This isn't top 20 Woody Allen material but it's an enjoyable film. I understand the Jason Biggs annoyance and it is a little baffling Woody casted him for this role. Regardless this movie has some good qualities. Christina Ricci is great, good soundtrack, funny one-liners, Danny Devito's character, and Woody Allen's doomsday prepper role all sum up to a fairly good movie.
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Is it possible that senility has come crashing in on Woody, allowing him to forget that he once made Annie Hall? (I won't even comment on said senility affecting his casting decisions in such a way that they suddenly include Jason Biggs - although, actually, I will comment on it a bit later). Anything Else opens with Woody Allen and Jason Biggs - both comedy writers for nightclub acts - walking the streets and talking of the things that Woody…
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Pretty standard Woody Allen. I didnt mind Jason Biggs.
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Oh Woody, why on earth would you think that it would be a good idea to cast Jason Biggs as the lead in one of your films? Allen has cast actors as surrogate versions of himself many times throughout the course of his career, to varying degrees of success, but I don't think I've ever seen someone fail so miserably at it as Biggs does in Anything Else.
This film could have perhaps been somewhat enjoyable if there had been…
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One of my favourite post 2001 Woody Allen movies, very well shot by famed DP Darius Khondji.
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Woody Allen always finds a way to connect with the mildly-neurotic writer inside me. Few filmmakers' works connect with me on such a personal, reclusive level and this is the third film Allen has made that has had left me truly fulfilled and confident in what I do. It shows me what I possibly have in store, how intellectuals function in a society driven by impulsive idiocy, and further prepares me for the incredibly long road I have ahead of…
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Woody Allen's Manic Shiksa Dream Girls have walked a tightrope between delightful and insufferable for decades; here's the version that finally leapt into the abyss. The narrative consists entirely of waiting for Jerry (Jason Biggs) to grow a spine, but in the meantime we have to watch him deal with Christina Ricci's truly whackadoo Amanda. Where there should be some recognition of the charm or appeal behind her neurotic freak-outs, there's nothing but grotesquely unsympathetic insanity; Ricci's playing an absurd…