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Anything Else (2003)

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40

Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 79

Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here.

33

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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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 21,616

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Movie Info

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

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Comedy

Woody Allen

Dec 23, 2003

$3.1M

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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.

October 16, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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Curiously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line.

October 9, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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I didn't laugh once.

September 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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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.

September 23, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice
Village Voice
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There is nothing to set this work apart from any number of mediocre Allen films.

September 21, 2003
Hollywood Reporter
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At times it seems as if we're watching a high school production of Woody Allen.

September 20, 2003
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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"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.

April 19, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

Woody Allen tries to extend the shelf-life of his screen persona by hiring a younger, more marketable actor

July 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Times [UK]
Times [UK]

(...) Valía la pena seguir esperando la siguiente película de Allen; después de Anything Else no estoy tan seguro de ello.

June 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total
Uruguay Total

Typical of Woody Allen movies, this is a minimalist DVD.

February 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

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.

January 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Laramie Movie Scope

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.

January 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall
Shadows on the Wall

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.

January 5, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena
Cinema em Cena

A return to form for Woody Allen.

January 5, 2004 Full Review

Audience Reviews for Anything Else

This wasn't very good. The story was bleah and the actors didn't seem to put out performances at all. I didn't care what happened to any of these people halfway through.
January 7, 2008
superclerk25

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I dislike movies about seasoned pros imparting advice to wide-eyed proteges. In terms of Woody's oeuvre, there was too much didacticism and not enough heart...
December 31, 2007
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