In a single sentence, Allen's character invokes Camus and Henny Youngman. If an unfunny joke is told in the forest and nobody hears it, it’s still an unfunny joke.
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09/25/03
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Anything Else (2003)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:52
Rotten:77
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here.
Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $3,135,535
Synopsis: Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci star as a mismatched couple in Woody Allen's funny and well-made romantic comedy ANYTHING ELSE. Biggs plays Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer looking to make it big,... [More]
Starring: Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito
Director: Woody Allen
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Reviews for Anything Else
Seems like Woody Allen is passing the baton to the "American Pie" kid.
09/25/03
Woody Allen re-shoots “Annie Hall” scene for scene except this time he does not obscure his bitterness toward women.
09/24/03
So little honesty, so little trace of humanity, that watching it is a little like eating a broken vase, one shard at a time.
09/23/03
Will Allen come out the other side and find the gentle, romantic side of life once more? Anything Else gives us a bit of hope; but we're not quite there yet.
09/23/03
But instead of ringing new changes on these themes, he just repeats them off-kilter. The result is like a fax of an oil painting.
09/23/03
Lightweight and pleasant, the film is a blizzard of airy persiflage, expertly purveyed by the usual array of fine actors eager to bite into Allen's dialogue.
09/23/03
The film is a rehash of pretty much Allen has done over the years, and no one is all that interesting.
09/23/03
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.
09/23/03
Top CriticThat Woody Allen is still making movies about the subjects that appeal to him and still doing them in much the same manner he has for 30 years is enough to make Anything Else cause for celebration.
09/23/03
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09/22/03
Allen plays a 'deranged' paranoiac who for once is not just a self-absorbed intellectual but a true creation of what his character calls our 'perilous times'...
09/22/03
A nice rebound for Allen. Taking a backseat and letting his writing take the wheel is a smart move.
09/22/03
Allen creates one of his finer films, with a delicately intricate plot, phenomenal acting and delightfully cynical humor.
09/22/03
Oy! Another Woody comedy about a neurotic making the Manhattan scene.
09/21/03
Out of ideas and revved up on hatred towards himself and women, Woody Allen creates a bile and sinister view on love in the Big Apple, post 9-11.
09/21/03
There is nothing to set this work apart from any number of mediocre Allen films.
09/21/03
Top CriticInstead of replaying the same storylines and characters,...Allen should refocus his attention on originality.
09/20/03
...this time out, Allen has picked his own pocket and found nothing but dust.
09/20/03
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09/20/03
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