The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 124
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 68
The writing for Scorpion is not as sharp as Woody Allen's previous movies as most of the jokes fall flat.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 23
The writing for Scorpion is not as sharp as Woody Allen's previous movies as most of the jokes fall flat.
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Writer and director Woody Allen returns to the Manhattan of the past with this romantic comedy set in 1940, the era of fedora hats and gumshoe detectives. Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator whose razor-sharp instincts have just led to the successful conclusion of another case, the recovery of a stolen Picasso. While he's a valued employee, Briggs is under fire from efficiency expert Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt) for his antiquated attitudes and refusal to accept modern
Cast
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Woody Allen
CW Briggs -
Dan Aykroyd
Chris Magruder -
Helen Hunt
Betty Ann Fitzgerald -
Elizabeth Berkley
Jill -
John Schuck
Mize -
Kaili Vernoff
Rosie -
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Wallace Shawn
George Bond -
Maurice Sonnenberg
Office Worker -
Charlize Theron
Laura Kensington -
John Doumanian
Office Worker -
Peter Gerety
Ned -
Kevin Cahoon
Lunch Delivery Man -
Philip Levy
Rocky's Waiter -
Vince Giordano & the Nigh...
Rainbow Room All Star -
Howard Alden
Rainbow Room All Star -
Ted Sommer
Rainbow Room All Star -
Randy Sandke
Rainbow Room All Star -
Peter Ecklund
Rainbow Room All Star -
Joel Helleny
Rainbow Room All Star -
Chuck Wilson
Rainbow Room All Star -
Ray Beckenstein
Rainbow Room All Star -
Lawrence Feldman
Rainbow Room All Star -
Ken Peplowski
Rainbow Room All Star -
Dick Hyman
Band Leader -
Carole Bayeux
Voltan's Assistant -
Kenneth Edelson
Voltan's Participants -
Brian McConnachie
Voltan's Participants -
Judy Gold
Voltan's Participants -
Herb Lovelle
Night Guard -
Carmen
Rose Kensington -
Patrick Horgan
Kensington Guest -
Howard Erskine
Kensington Guest -
Ira Wheeler
Kensington Guest -
Tina Sloan
Kensington Guest -
Ramsey Faragallah
Fingerprint Detective -
Bob Dorian
Mike -
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Trude Klein
Kensington Maid -
Irwin Corey
Charlie -
Michael Mulheren
Herb Coopersmith -
Peter Linari
Joe Coopersmith -
Ray Garvey
Police Station Cop -
Bruce Brown
Radio Announcer -
Dan Moran
Street Contact -
David Ogden Stiers
Voltan -
John Tormey
Sam -
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All Critics (139) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (68) | DVD (19)
The movie has an odd feeling, both lush and listless. It's enough to make us believe Allen's comic batteries need recharging.
Top CriticThe romance between C.W. and Betty Ann doesn't have much ardor, repressed or otherwise.
Mid-level, pretty-but-not- hugely-funny Allen film.
It's evidently important to Allen to work, work, work, but he's starting to make his movies by rote instead of passion.
[Allen's] let his guard down and has allowed himself and his audience to relax -- something that doesn't often happen when the specters of class and European art hover over his pictures.
Despite an appealing, even ingenious premise, Scorpion is another quippy but uninspired comedy.
Older kids may like this Woody Allen comedy.
Like a Swiss clock, Allen is the only American director who makes a film every year, but chronic fatigue and lack of inspiration seem to have taken over his work, as this retro comedy, using the old conceit of hypnosis, shows.
Woody Allen cooks up an easy-going little swindle comedy, not too far off from his last film Small Time Crooks.
Diálogos sem graça em um filme sem ritmo. Um dos mais fracos do diretor.
A cierta altura es imposible no sentir que la broma se alarga, aún a pesar de las palabras, los personajes o el elenco.
A little Woody goes a long way. His cloying nebbishness gets old quickly, though he does have a singular wit and some kind of indefinable charm.
'The old joke of Woody as irresistible romantic lead has gone from funny, to discomforting, to pitiable.'
Is it funny? Yeah, kinda. But somehow it doesn't all come together. It's not that the material is lacking, but, incredibly for an Allen picture, that the delivery is off-kilter.
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Foreign Titles
- Le sortilège du scorpion de jade (FR)
- La maldición de la escorpión de jade (ES)
