:: Saturday, May 11, 2002 ::

"Hollywood Ending", the new Woody Allen film, which had the "audacity" to open opposite "Spider-man" last week, is the best film I've seen this year, and believe it when I say it should be nominated for an oscar if anything which has come before it anyway signifies the cream of the crop of filmed entertainment in 2002. Woody is NOT the same whiny irascible neurotic that all the critics seem to have seen when they screened the film for reviewing purposes. My only thought must be, after witnessing this delightful creme puff of a movie, that they were psychosomatically blinded by the light the great Woodman has shone on not only his audience, of which I count myself a loyal member, always attempting to see the films in a theater, but on a hopefully future audience, if they see it at all.
Woody is has-been director Val Waxman, and I'm sure everyone reading has seen the previews, which do contain some of the biggest laughs, but by no means all of them. His advertising department worked overtime trying to promote "Hollywood Ending", it's the second movie with Dreamworks instead of Charles Joffe listed as producer, and it seemed poised, when I first glimpsed the trailer anyway to be the first populist film the Woodman has delivered in a while.
But methinks the critics and a certain web slinging superhero (whom I want to see very badly, just not with these crowds. I'll be waiting a few weeks) spoiled his chances.
That doesn't spoil the impact of the movie however. This is top notch entertainment delivered in a familiar yet different vein, as have been most of Woody's past five or six films.
I'll detail this film in a review soon to be posted on ElectricMovies

:: Michael Nyiri 10:08 PM Leave a Comment on this Post ::
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