Anything Else (2003)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 79
Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 24
Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here.
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A young artist struggling with his career and his muse is getting more than a little aggravation from Cupid in this romantic comedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is a promising 21-year-old comedy writer living in New York City. While Jerry has talent, he's having a hard time getting his career off the ground, which might have something to do with the fact his agent Harvey (Danny DeVito) is a well-meaning, but ineffectual, blowhard, and his mentor David Dobel
Cast
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Woody Allen
David Dobel -
Jason Biggs
Jerry Falk -
Christina Ricci
Amanda -
Danny DeVito
Harvey -
Stockard Channing
Paula -
KaDee Strickland
Brooke -
Jimmy Fallon
Bob -
Erica Leerhsen
Connie -
William Hill
Psychiatrist -
David Conrad
Dr. Reed -
Adrian Grenier
Ray Polito -
Diana Krall
Herself -
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Kenneth Edelson
Hotel Desk Clerk -
Fisher Stevens
Manager -
Joseph Lyle Taylor
Bill -
Ray Garvey
Car Thug -
Maurice Sonnenberg
Movie Theater Patron -
Anthony Arkin
Pip's Comic -
Wynter Kullman
Emily -
Anthony J. Ribustello
Car Thug -
Zach McLarty
Ralph -
Ralph Pope
Cab Driver
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All Critics (144) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (81) | DVD (15)
None of this adds up to much of a movie; it's more like a filmed hodgepodge of not-fully- thought-out ideas and one-liners and small shards of jaundiced polemic.
Top CriticCuriously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line.
I didn't laugh once.
Who knows what sense an American Pie-digging, Woodman-ignorant undergrad might make of the canned rhythms, the trilobite-era one-liners, the awkward declarative dialogue, the Catskills-resort frames of reference, the freshman philosophy.
There is nothing to set this work apart from any number of mediocre Allen films.
At times it seems as if we're watching a high school production of Woody Allen.
"Anything Else" represents low ebb for the comic filmmaker famous for transmuting the work of Ingmar Bergman into New York centric comedies full of neurosis based humor.
Woody Allen tries to extend the shelf-life of his screen persona by hiring a younger, more marketable actor
(...) Valía la pena seguir esperando la siguiente película de Allen; después de Anything Else no estoy tan seguro de ello.
Typical of Woody Allen movies, this is a minimalist DVD.
The trouble is, Biggs is not nearly as good at this kind of role as Allen. For that matter, Allen is not very convincing as a gun-toting survivalist, either.
The script is quite entertaining as it plays with the idea of writing and artistic creation. But the plot itself is mildly annoying and seriously dull.
Seria ótimo se Allen passasse a dedicar mais tempo ao desenvolvimento de suas idéias. É melhor ver um bom filme a cada dois ou três anos do que sofrer uma decepção todo ano.
A return to form for Woody Allen.
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