Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 5
It may not Woody Allen's best work, but the frothy, fun A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is still worth a look.
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 4
It may not Woody Allen's best work, but the frothy, fun A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is still worth a look.
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Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Adrian and Andrew are the hosts, at their summer house in the country, of a wedding party for Ariel (Mia Farrow) and Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a famed academic who is Andrew's cousin.
Jul 16, 1982 Wide
Nov 6, 2001
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (5) | DVD (11)
It's funny and sweet in spots, though the light moments get lost in the haze of imitation and ambitiousness.
A pleasant disappointment, pleasant because he gets all the laughs he goes for in a visually charming, sweetly paced picture, a disappointment because he doesn't go for more.
There doesn't seem to be a driving idea behind it, a confident tone to give us the sure notion that Allen knows what he wants to do here.
Picturesque but uncertain.
Inspired by Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, andwith a touch of Renoir's Rules of the Game, this period comedy is a minor work, a trifle in Allen's career, worth seeing for some of the supporting acting.
Allen has no affinity for Renoir's robust generosity, yet this study does wonders for his filmmaking
It's not classic Woody, but it has a warmly human attractiveness about it.
It's one of Allen's lightest trifles, but it too contains enough funny jokes and fantasy moments to make it a small treasure.
Warm, romantic and old-fashioned.
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy circles around the nuances of love-a web that both tantalizes and confounds Americans.
Top-flight Allen. Probably his most gorgeous color film.
Not among Woody's most memorable, but it's still pleasant enough to warrant a visit.
Not Woody Allen's best - rather witty, but a little on the dull side.
April 24, 2007Super Reviewer
It's an interesting idea, Shakespearean adaptations and period dramas were rife in the early 80's, so to do one with Woody Allen's witticisms was probably well received at the time. As much as I liked the script, performances and watching Allen flying about in a floating bicycle, it didn't quite grab me and I found it
September 6, 2011Super Reviewer
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