Melinda and Melinda
by Woody Allen
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Actor: Larry Pine, Neil Pepe, Radha Mitchell, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Wallace ShawnDirector: Woody Allen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Summary: 3 Stars
Woody Allen, in his long career as a comic, writer, actor, producer and director has worked many themes but the urban (usually New York City his home turf) slices of life are usually the best. Here Woody takes a tragic-comic, or is it comedic-tragic look at the trials and tribulations of an off-beat New York society girl Melinda as filtered through a comedy director's and a tragedy director's vision of the story line. Some amusing moments, especially for a hapless Woody wannabe character who falls in love with the comic version of Melinda. Nothing profound here and nothing that Woody hasn't analyzed a hundred times before but a very nice racially-mixed ensemble cast (it is New York in the 2000's, remember) does a nice job with the material as Woody enters the 21st century.
Summary of Melinda and Melinda
Two alternating stories about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.In Melinda and Melinda, Will Ferrell does a fine job playing Woody Allen--or at any rate, playing the fumbling, neurotic, lascivious character who appears in almost every Woody Allen movie (and is usually played by Allen himself). Hobie (Ferrell, Elf) is an unemployed actor who has fallen helplessly in love with Melinda (Radha Mitchell, High Art)--or at least with one version of Melinda, because Hobie's comic story runs parallel with a more serious version of the same plot, in which Melinda falls in love with a composer (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things). Melinda and Melinda is intended to be a sort of showdown between a comic and a tragic view of the world, but the comic story isn't all that funny and the tragic story isn't all that sad. You're more likely to feel annoyed by these characters than sympathetic to them, as they act more like Martians than New Yorkers; their responses and attitudes aren't exactly dated or implausible, they're mostly incomprehensible. The movie is still a step up from Anything Else, Allen's last effort; there are a handful of genuinely funny moments, Chloe Sevigny (as one of Melinda's best friends) and Mitchell are particularly good, and the turns of the two-fold plot--regardless of its genre--are engaging. However, these virtues will be best appreciated by those who are already Allen fans. --Bret Fetzer
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