Anything Else | | Cast : | Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Danny DeVito | | Director : | Woody Allen | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | September 19, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | May 31, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | TRULY BAD | Content
 | There's absolutely no way anybody with any love for the movies or Woody Allen could love this really really poor movie. I thought Hollywood Ending was bad but this is worse!!!
If you are a Woody Allen fan do yourself a favor and stay away from this one! The man has many a good movies in his filmography
this is certainly not one of them !!!!!!!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 27, 2005 | | Summary | Yawn.... | Content
| This movie has too much talking and absolutely zero action, and a misusage of Christina Ricci's talent. The whole movie is Woody Allen making a tribute to himself. Allen plays one of the main characters and the rest of the actors are obviously too much in awe, or is it fear, of him to improvise on lines that would have fit if Woody Allen was saying them, but really didn't fit their characters. Much of the plot plainly doesn't make coherent sense, and all that whining is tiring and cliche. Eeeegads! The movie would have been better if Woody Allen wasn't in it, and if Ricci wasn't used to add depth to an undeniably stupid shallow character. (Rose McGowan would have played a better Amanda, incidentally.) There needs to be much more action and storytelling in this movie, than the much too much neurotic talking. What a waste of talent and time! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 15, 2005 | | Summary | Don't Waste Your Time! | Content
| A parody of Woody Allen with Woody Allen, that wears thin with his first appearance in the film. Stale jokes and irrelevancies that are not worthy of him . . . it seems that he is way, way past his prime, in his acting as well as in his production of this bore. Don't waste your time on this one. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 22, 2005 | | Summary | Slow moving | Content
| Anything Else is a slow moving film. It is the only Woody Allen comedy that I've found boring. The few humorous scenes and witty dialogue reminded me of some other Allen film of bygone years. Danny De Vito might have been able to add a bit of spice to the humor. He wasn't funny. The stars were simply not interesting, a major flaw. Someone has suggested that the film would have succeeded if the leads had been played by Woody himself with Mia Farrow. Only a remake would answer that question. Did Juliet Taylor let us down? Or has Woody Allen lost his flair for writing an interesting plot. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 02, 2005 | | Summary | Just a Bit Watchable | Content
| Woody Allen has finally realized that he's old. So many of his more recent films would have been much better if 'his' part had been played by an actor a bit younger & closer to the age of the leading lady. In this picture Woody has picked Jason Biggs... KEEP LOOKING!! Everyone can see the 'shadow' of Woody telling Jason exactly how to act & react to each line. Theres almost a PAUSE between each delivery! Jason has his own style, I'm not saying he's an accomplished actor yet.. Still needs some seasoning & varying roles, but he's not ready for the fast paced, think schtick Woody Allen style.
Oh Christina... here is one accomplished actress who has shown time & again that she can 'become' a role. All I can guess here is she signed up to do a "Woody Allen" movie before she read the script. Jittery & fast talking, even if she was directed to be that way, she seems uncomfortable in her delivery & never seems to BITE DOWN and make us believe. Some great give & take between her and Stockard Channing...
Woody Allen himself makes this movie "Just a Bit Watchable". Playing the part of a fed-up older writer trying to pass his wisdom on LIFE to Jasons character, his little twists of insanity are perfect exclamation points for each of his passed jewels of wisdom. Who among us doesn't want to be that man with a bat?
Then end is predictable. The relationship is placed before us as the 'point' of the movie. But Woody's twist at the end? If you say you saw that coming you're lying to yourself! |
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