The script is quite entertaining as it plays with the idea of writing and artistic creation. But the plot itself is mildly annoying and seriously dull.
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01/16/04
Anything Else (2003)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:52
Rotten:77
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci star as a mismatched couple in Woody Allen's funny and well-made romantic comedy ANYTHING ELSE. Biggs plays Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer looking to make it big,... [More]
Starring: Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito
Director: Woody Allen
Reviews for Anything Else
Woody Allen tries to extend the shelf-life of his screen persona by hiring a younger, more marketable actor
07/29/04
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08/07/04
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07/12/04
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07/30/04
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09/09/03
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06/24/06
Top CriticWoody Allen re-shoots “Annie Hall” scene for scene except this time he does not obscure his bitterness toward women.
09/24/03
Is it the most irritating movie of the year? Heck, yes.
11/19/03
This effort can't really be called a success, but it does have several funny and charming moments.
09/16/03
Joining the small list of male actors who have taken the lead in an Allen film ... Biggs also proves himself to be the least engaging, or interesting, of the lot, coming across much more like an innocent bystander than the centerpiece of an urban comedy.
09/19/03
Will Allen come out the other side and find the gentle, romantic side of life once more? Anything Else gives us a bit of hope; but we're not quite there yet.
09/23/03
It's so irrelevant, unambitious and lazy it almost seems to be thumbing its nose at the daring filmmaker Woody once was.
09/19/03
Who knows what sense an American Pie-digging, Woodman-ignorant undergrad might make of the canned rhythms, the trilobite-era one-liners, the awkward declarative dialogue, the Catskills-resort frames of reference, the freshman philosophy.
09/23/03
Though hardly vintage Allen, this madcap comedy hits its marks far more often than it misses
09/19/03
surprisingly relaxed
09/17/03
Allen plays a 'deranged' paranoiac who for once is not just a self-absorbed intellectual but a true creation of what his character calls our 'perilous times'...
09/22/03
There's a lot of truth in the screenplay, and, combined with Ricci's top-notch, can't-take-your- eyes-off-her-when- she's-on-screen performance, this gives the movie a strong spine.
09/20/03
Biggs may have the comically compulsive anxiety thing down pat, but he just doesn't have the screen presence to make it compelling — especially when breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience.
09/17/03
The movie rambles, sputters and repeats itself for 108 minutes before staggering to an unsatisfying conclusion.
09/19/03
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