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Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: The writing for Scorpion is not as sharp as Woody Allen's previous movies as most of the jokes fall flat.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Woody Allen's funny, frantic THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION is part screwball romantic comedy, part 1940s noir detective story, and part ingenious heist film. Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, a... [More]
Starring: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Charlize Theron, Helen Hunt
Director: Woody Allen
Many of the jokes fall flat, and the film has a musty smell about it, like an apartment someone has been living in for too long. Yet the picture plays out pleasantly, and Allen creates a world that's easy to inhabit.
Apparently, Woody Allen feels compelled to make a movie every year, but you shouldn't go out of your way to see this year's model.
In spite of its dated ways -- or perhaps because of them -- it just may be the most youthful film you'll see this summer.
Though Allen's finished product falls short of the masterpieces of the screwball era, Jade Scorpion still offers more than enough magic to hold you under its spell.
Prodded to life only by the infrequent verbal zinger, the story feels sluggish, especially when it dwells on a romantic tangent 20 minutes after it should have logically ended.
About as insignificant as a movie can be without blowing right off the screen.
This one is for Woody fans, and maybe Woody fans only.
The frothiest, funniest comedy he has made since Manhattan Murder Mystery.
Enormous fun.
It resembles busy work or the tic of someone who fills the lull in any conversation with meaningless if entertaining chatter.
We may never see another Annie Hall, but Woody Allen hasn't lost his talent to amuse.
This one is for hard-core Woody Allen fans only, and even they will have to search hard to find something to like about the film.
May be the worst Woody Allen movie ever made.
This new one has a clever premise, is well-acted, and has a polished, deliberately antiquated look, but it elicits more shrugs than laughs.
Feels like an exercise in seasoned craft with an occasional good line, which can't help seeming hugely lacking in ambition. There's a prevailing sense that the wind has gone out of Allen's artistic sails.
The title is, to be sure, delightful but the movie itself is, finally, a trifle.
In nearly four decades of filmmaking, Woody Allen has been hilarious, brilliant, maddening, contrary and unsettling. Never, though, has he been so ordinary.
The movie is a pleasure to watch, the craft is voluptuous to regard, but The Curse of the Jade Scorpion lacks the elusive zing of inspiration.
Top CriticThere's nothing major here, certainly nothing on the order of my favorite among Allen's retro workouts of the past decade, Bullets Over Broadway. But it's entertaining all the same.
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