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Title: Light comedy
Review: This is a surprisingly old-fashioned comedy from Woody Allen. It is a much lighter film than most of his recent ouvre, but the frequent suggestion that this movie is unphilosophical is false -- there is a message in the film about the futility of trying to transcend one's working-class roots, a rather undemocratic sentiment. Nonetheless, the movie mostly is going for yuks instead of trying to make a statement, and at that level it succeeds. And how often do you get to see the scrawny, nebbish Allen mimic Jackie Gleason's large and loud Ralph Cramden? You do here, and I found it quite amusing.
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