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The Worst Film Ever

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

"Picking Up The Pieces" is an unusual project for Woody Allen to be involved with: it's one of the very few times in his career where he only stars in a movie without also having written and/or directed it, plus it's set in New Mexico, quite a few states away from his favorite city in the world, New York. He might seem like a fish out of water at first, but he does seem to have written a lot of his own dialogue (I'm assuming that because his lines are considerably funnier than anyone else's - "If the police find all these pieces they might suspect something" or "I confess I killed my wife - but I did it only once!"), and he sneaks in his usual ruminations about death and the afterlife as well. Only Woody could make the character he plays here so human, sympathetic, and funny. The rest of the cast, though distinguished and diverse, are simply not at his level, the direction is shapeless, and the story is thin. But I do appreciate the fact that this black comedy stays black to the end and does not play "nice" to win the audience's approval. ** out of 4.

This movie could have been made into something good, but it never rose to the occasion. I love seeing Woody Allen playing someone other than the neurotic New Yorker. Here he is in the exact opposite role - an southeastern New Mexican. I get tired of seeing Woody Allen always being Woody Allen. So, this role should have been refreshing. Surrounding himself by a competent cast of actors and comedians, you would have expected something good.The problem with this movie is that it took a good idea and never really went anywhere with it. Tex is a mild mannered butcher, who finally murders his wife after all his affairs. While disposing of her, he accidentally leaves her finger lying on the highway. In the mostly Hispanic town that he lives in, the people start having miracles happen. So, they decide that the finger is the result of these miracles. Fran Drescher is very funny as a nun who is always crying "sin" over everything. However, that's it. You would expect something out of this movie, but you never find it. A big disappointment.

I cannot think of a worse film. The bad acting was only surpassed by the bad script and the bad production work. Throughout, I kept thinking, was Woody that desperate for money? The trailers at the beginning hinted that there is an entire genre devoted to has-been actors hard up for cash. They insist on ten lines in this review, so I am typing away to fill up space. What more is there to say? There are great films in the world, like Loves of a Blonde by Forman or even great Woody Allen films like Annie Hall and Sleeper. I only rented this because of Woody's name, and for that, he earned his pay. Other great movies: The Third Man, Dr. Strangelove, Life of Brian, Groundhog's Day. Three more lines to go. Good movies: What about Bob? Anything by Hitchcock. Even a Mary Kate and Ashley movie, which as a father of young girls I ended up watching, is better than this thing, their best being "Our lips are sealed."

If not the worst film ever made, it is so bad that it makes one think fondly of the antic creativity of Ed Wood. This movie, a sniggering piece of anti-Catholic bigotry, featuring an all-star cast of people who should have known better, is so shamefully acted that one wonders how hard up the performers were to take their roles. Fran Drescher, abandoning her trademark whine, offers such an embarrassing performance that she should sue the distributors for defamation by allowing the public to discover how long she has defrauded them by passing herself off as a comic actress. Here, she evokes neither laughs nor applause. The rest of the cast merely deserves our censure for the waste of our time and the blot on their own resumes.Shame on all concerned with this ugly, nasty little piece of work.