Really funny Woody Allen picture, with some great one-liners, a good (if standard for Woody) jazzy score and beautiful set design.

The major flaw is that, yes, the Woody/Helen Hunt falls as flat as a screen romance can. And I loved Charlize Theron's look as the Lauren Bacall-esque femme fatale; I just wish she's been given something to do.

But it's awfully funny, and Woody's character is one of his more endearing. It's a just-for-fun picture, but it sure is fun.

I enjoyed this and Smalltime Crooks as Allen's work I've liked in a while. It was great to see the amazing Helen Hunt in one of her last theatrical roles for quite sometime. It was some good times, not great though.

Very bland and lacking in actual humor. Everyone seems bored except for the massively underused Charlize Theron, whose scenes were the only ones to brighten up the production at all.

C-

Perfectly said. I agree with every word and the grade.

B


I'll just copy my review from another thread:

Admittedly, this is not one of Allen's strongest written works, but I liked it a lot. The interaction between Helen Hunt and Woody Allen's character is priceless and this movie has some of the best one-liners of all Allen flicks, seriously. I laughed out loud quite a couple of times.

Of course, ultimately the story is cheesy and the ending is pretty corny, but it is still quite an enjoyable movie with a nice twist to it and as I mentioned above, Hunt and Allen are great and the way Allen parodies film noir (with Charlie Theron's femme fatale) is great too. The movie lacks the social commentary of most Allen films, but it does very well without it, being the pure fun flick it is supposed to be.

It's just a good comedy. Nothing more, nothing less.