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- First reviewJuly 12, 2008
- Last reviewJune 12, 2011
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the best Woody Allen in years? not!
PostedJune 12, 2011
CoryAnna
from Chicago
Owen Wilson channels Woody Allen in this charming post-card of Paris in three eras. This blonde shaygetz (Yiddish for non-Jewish man) manages to transform himself into a neurotic hesitant Woody; I guess that's what they call acting! The film is pleasant and does, as one reviewer says, leave you with a smile on your face. But as Gertrude Stein would have said, "there isn't any there there." Adrien Brody is funny and charming as Salvador Dali and most of the other cameos are well done as well. We particularly enjoyed Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein, but the Hemingway shtick of having the actor talk exactly the way Hemingway wrote gets old after a few minutes. The core story of the artist afraid of entrapment into a soulless bourgeois marriage into a wealthy family has been done before - by Woody Allen, no less. All in all a pleasant summer movie, but I thought Vicky Cristina Barcelona was way better with the same plot - artistic young soul running away from bourgeois conventionality (which in this film is set in $800 per night hotel rooms!).
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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awesome movie: the Panda packs a punch!
PostedJuly 12, 2008
CoryAnna
from Chicago
A lot of people should see the movie because it teaches you a lesson that you should never give up and never make fun of someone. You should never give up because you can change something into something that you really want to do. You shouldn't make fun of someone because it hurts the other's feeling. Our favorite part of the movie was the end - especially the part when Po thought Master Shi-fu was dying and he said, "I'm not dying, you idiot!" Our favorite characters were Po, the turtle, and the tiger. Anna (age 8) particularly liked the Tiger. Cory (age 9 1/2) liked the "finger hold" when Po did it to the bad guy. Great action, great comedy, great drawing. The whole family had fun!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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