Half works, and the half that doesn't work isn't so bad that it's not worth sitting through to see a Woody Allen comedy starring Will Ferrell.
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04/01/05
Melinda and Melinda (2005)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:80
Rotten:70
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Woody Allen's uneven Melinda and Melinda fails to find neither comedy nor pathos in what seems like a rehash of his previous themes.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Woody Allen mixes the tragic with the comic in MELINDA AND MELINDA, a delightful, intelligent look at two versions of the same story. After hearing a tale about a quirky woman who walks in... [More]
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, Radha Mitchell, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Woody Allen
Reviews for Melinda and Melinda
It is a stunt, but at least it is a serious one.
04/01/05
A movie that too often is dull and duller, an exercise posing as a full-blown drama. Or is it posing as a comedy?
04/01/05
Overcoming the handicap of an overt, writerly device, Allen crafts a warm comedy and a painful tragedy right before our eyes.
04/01/05
I'm torn - half of me thinks this is worth seeing and the other half says wait to rent it or see it on cable.
04/01/05
Like a copy of a copy of a Woody Allen movie.
03/31/05
Sin City is the most gorgeous digital movie ever made. It represents a stunning leap forward in both the technology of digital cinema and the art of filmmaking.
03/31/05
A step in the right direction, yes. A masterpiece, no. Still, it's a big step, one that at least bears comparison with much of Mr. Allen's better work.
03/31/05
Allen once based his career on making mincemeat of the very people Melinda and Melinda dotes upon.
03/31/05
At this point, Allen may be the only guy laughing at his jokes.
03/31/05
Allen knows it's foolish to speak of comedy and drama as if they're separate things, so he intermingles them here.
03/31/05
Yet another exercise in futility from Woody Allen.
03/31/05
The comic half of the double feature is more wheezy than breezy, and the drama lacks the pulverizing punch of serious art.
03/31/05
Melinda returns Woody Allen to more steady ground; yet, his film still feels like a work completed with one eye closed.
03/30/05
Allen lately has grown tired of complex characters and inventive actors to play them. He appears to be making movies because that's what he's always done, but the love and the ideas and the zip are essentially gone.
03/27/05
Comic or tragic, a story should be involving. With dreary, self-involved, characters who move around the plots like sleepwalkers, neither one of these stories is.
03/27/05
As the title suggests, Melinda and Melinda features two renditions of the same person. Woody Allen would have been smart to scrap them both and start from scratch.
03/26/05
Little more than a failed stunt, a would-be magic trick in which the sleight of hand is all too obvious.
03/26/05
Woody Allen breaks his recent slump with Melinda and Melinda, his best and most purely enjoyable film in a decade.
03/26/05
I couldn't buy that two supposedly sophisticated theater people could be so simpleminded about what defines comedy and tragedy. I also couldn't believe in most of the characters, including either version of Melinda.
03/25/05
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