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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Maybe I was too easy on this because the press was so bad that my expectations were low, but it didn't feel like the awful failure I was prepared for. While certainly not up with Allen's best work, and one of his few films I don't feel a need to see a second time, this still had intelligence, wit, good performances and the bittersweet tone about love and sex that Allen does as well as anyone in film history. It was also interesting to see him finally accept his age, and play a supporting role as an often funny, but sometimes disturbingly crazy older mentor to a young man in love, instead of playing the romantic lead himself. Yes, some of the jokes are ancient, and Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci, while both fine, don't have the chemistry of Allen and Keaton in "Annie Hall", which this seems to hearken back to. (I actually thought Ricci was excellent, and quite different from her usual screen persona). But Allen still creates some rich characters, some fun, literate dialogue, and captures how confusing being young and in love with someone who is deeply messed up but sexy and adorable and smart can be. Many of us have been there.

Watch anything but Anything Else. I am a huge fan of Woody Allen, but this film is one of the worst that I've seen.One of the things I generally like about Woody Allen films is how organic they all feel. The characters are people we know in our lives, and one of the ways that Woody allows them to feel that way is by allowing them to speak with natural inflections.There is too much of that with the characters of Anything Else. They're so awkward that its uncomfortable to watch, and the things that occur during the film feel unnatural and exaggerated. It seems more like a cheap imitation of the standard that I hold Woody Allen to.So TL;DR, Watch anything else.

Simply terrible film from Woody Allen, perhaps the worst he ever made, challenging "Shadows and Fog" and "September" for that dubious honor.Allen's biggest mistake was in casting Jason Biggs as his central character. Biggs is just about as unappealing as actors come, and he's at his most unappealing when he's being asked to be Allen's stand in and deliver the neurotic Jew routine that's really only funny when Allen does it himself. He's not given a tremendous amount of help by Christina Ricci, ordinarily an actress I like but who's hampered by an uncharacteristically boring screenplay. Even in my least favorite Allen films, there's usually a joke or two or a sight gag that I remember, but "Anything Else" has absolutely nothing to recommend it.Grade: F

This is a wholly successful Late Allen. Woody throws himself as the narrator overboard and substitutes a young fellow played very engagingly by Jason Biggs, and Woody steps back and becomes the neurotic uncle-figure who advises him on his life. It works brilliantly, and the film is wonderfully funny. The nightmare aspect of the film is the terrifying demented girlfriend of Jason Biggs played by a very scary Christina Ricci. Any man who values his life needs to run if he sees her coming. (I don't mean what that might mean if you think of the verb in a different way.) Because as Uncle Woody says: 'They ought to use her hormones for chemical warfare.' She is Miss Duplicity, Miss Psycho, Miss Narcissus herself. And her mother, played by Stockard Channing, is only one degree less threatening, and that is only because she is too old to be a cutie any longer. Woody knows all about Danger Gals, and here we have the 21st century femme fatale incarnate. And Christina Ricci isn't even that pretty, so how does she lure all those men to their doom like that? It must be THE STARE. Poor Jason Biggs, born to be the victim of a man-eating monstress! And he is so pathetically naïve! Well, this really is a hilarious and terrifying film all at once. Like life, really.