The good Woody Allen comedies are packed with intelligent jokes and have characters you like and can relate to. This movie misses on both counts. There is very little that is funny in this movie unless you like Woody's exaggerated portrayal of a blind man and everyone else's unbelievable failure to notice that Woody is blind. The attempts at slapstick comedy based on the problems of a fumbling blind man are embarrassingly bad.
But the bigger problem is that Woody's character is so unlikeable. He plays a bad director that treats Tea Leoni badly. It is hard to understand how they could have ever been married or why she would ever consider going back to someone so stupid, untalented, and insensitive.
The final problem is that this movie drags on much too long. There is an incredible amount of pointless dialog that is uninteresting and does not advance the plot.
The only part of the movie that works for me is the scene with Woody's estranged son, "Scumbag X". Scumbag is an interesting original character whose intelligence is in stark contrast to all the idiots that populate the rest of the movie. That scene had my favorite Allen line: "I love you, Scumbag".
But the bigger problem is that Woody's character is so unlikeable. He plays a bad director that treats Tea Leoni badly. It is hard to understand how they could have ever been married or why she would ever consider going back to someone so stupid, untalented, and insensitive.
The final problem is that this movie drags on much too long. There is an incredible amount of pointless dialog that is uninteresting and does not advance the plot.
The only part of the movie that works for me is the scene with Woody's estranged son, "Scumbag X". Scumbag is an interesting original character whose intelligence is in stark contrast to all the idiots that populate the rest of the movie. That scene had my favorite Allen line: "I love you, Scumbag".