Zelig
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DVD Cover Information Actor: John Buckwalter, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen Director: Woody Allen Brand: Twentieth Century Fox Writer: Woody Allen Producer: Charles H. Joffe DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 79 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-11-06 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of Zelig
Movie Review: What's in a name?
Summary: 2 Stars
Trying to figure out a header for this review epitomizes the problems that I have with this very middling Woody Allen film. Readers of this space know that I have done many reviews of Allen's films, as actor, director or both but this one annoys me no end. In short, not all Woody Allen movies are created equal. The premise behind this one is potentially interesting, perhaps more so today than when the film was originally produced- a send up of our celebrity-crazed society.
With Allen playing the role of a human chameleon in the Jazz Age there certainly were possibilities for a funny look at how the geeks look at a fellow geek but it falls flat. Why? I believe that here Allen just went back and found every sight gag and cliché that he had already used in many previous films- the bow (or finger) to Freud, Marx, the New York intelligentsia (here Irving Howe and Susan Sontag), Jewish childhoods, fascination with gentile women (here Mia Farrow, as an chain smoking experimental psychiatrist) and so forth.
If this list sounds familiar to Allen fans then you have the sense of my feelings on this film. Woody flat ran out of steam on this one. Fortunately there is plenty of other work by Allen to pick from. Do so.