Title: HERE'S THE SCOOP
Product review: Clumsy comedy-mystery concerning a dead journalist, who receives a news tip that is SO good, he leaves the afterlife to pursue it. Another trivial parlor game from Allen, that beholds a comedic and cinematic vacancy under it's brisk and snappy pace. Scarlett Johansson is all nerves and girlish charm as Allen's counterpart, and while the film is dependent on their co-presense, the sparks between them fall flat. Hugh Jackman, as an English aristocrat who may be a serial killer, serves well as the film's contrast to the silly proceedings, but stands alone like a partner without a dance. At the theatrical viewing of "Scoop" that I saw, several young teenagers, there apparently for Johansson's sake, laughed uproariously at every good and bad joke Allen cracked. If nothing else, maybe the film will have a younger generation searching Allen's backlog of true comedic masterpieces.
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