Don’t believe the negative reviews.
It’s the funniest one from Woody since maybe Deconstructing Harry.
Everything works. From the very original script, combining Allen’s bleak view of life with effervescent farcical plot line, to uniformly fine performances from Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, and the rest of the cast.
Comedic sparks fly non-stop, not just light chuckles here and there at Woody’s witticisms, but loud all-out laughter.
The scenes with Ed Begley’s and Patricia Clarkson’s transformations of ‘classic text-book right-wing material’ are especially hilarious.
Attempting to impress his ideologies on religion, relationships, and the randomness (and worthlessness) of existence, lifelong New York resident Boris Yellnikoff rants to anyone who will listen, including the audience.
But when he begrudgingly allows naive Mississippi runaway Melodie St. Ann Celestine to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl’s worldly views to match his own.
When it comes to love, “whatever works†is his motto, but his already perplexed life complicates itself further when Melodie’s parents eventually track her down.
magic
