shallow fluff

Rating: 5/10 (30 April 2012)

Trite. A self absorbed 15 year old boy's fantasy. The cast mercifully distracts from the silly story. Owen Wilson, ( Allen), flits from one nymph to another and walks away with a French Mia Farrow clone. Allens' films mostly amount to little more than elaborate stand up routines peppered with pseudo intellectual name drops. Rachel McAdam's character is so vapid one is mystified how someone so deep, cool and swell as Owen Wilson's character, ( who Allen wishes he could be), could have ever have proposed to her. One is left with the impression that the movie is really Allen's own fantasy about what would happen if he could travel back in time and show some real writers ( like him) his text and yes, in that fantasy they would be impressed.