Gimmicky and meaningless!

Rating: 1/10 (21 October 2011)

"Midnight in Paris" was a massive disappointment.
The film is full of beautiful shots of Paris and perhaps this may distract viewers from the fact that this movie is void of any real meaning whatsoever.
The 'story' is about a writer Gil (Owen Wilson) who wants to stay in Paris and write. His fiancé (Rachel McAdams) and her family are wealthy superficial socialites. Every night, Gil 'time travels' back to Paris 1920s where he meets all his artistic and literary idols. This is little more than an exercising in name-dropping and talent-wasting. He meets a non-superficial woman (Marion Cotillard).
I can't spoil the storyline because nothing happens. In what I suppose could be called the 'climax', the character Gil himself experiences what he describes as a "minor epiphany". It barely even qualifies minor. It's meaningless.
The 'characters' are woefully under-developed, completely two-dimensional.
Woody himself as described his film-making style as "lazy" and I have to say this is Woody at his laziest.