Title: STALE ROMANCE, TRIES ON A WOODY ALLEN DRESS, FORGETS CHARM
Product review: Overdrawn conversations and inter-twined relationships in Manhattan. Can't get any more Woody Allen than that. Yet there is so much wrong with this movie that makes it an ersatz, charmless clone of Allen's films.The cinematography is (perhaps purposefully) scattershot, cutting abruptly between long scenes. This doesn't really make for the stylization that the directors were apparently going for, it just comes off as epileptic camerawork.Then there is slobby vulgarity including adoloscent malarkey about applying cologne to your pubic areas or forgetting to shower before dates. There is an annoyingly prolonged shot of Ed Burns' armpits.What really gets your goat after a while though is the endless chitter chatter that lacks any semplance of sense or wit.While the movie does have its moments, an occasion or two where you may even laugh out loud, overall it is a disappointing waste of film. Can be skipped unless this is the only choice you have.
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