Owen Wilson played the usual Woody Allen's part. And that's the good thing.

Rating: 7/10 (9 January 2017)

30 years ago Woody would have played the protagonist himself and that would have been bad.
Owen Wilson is closer to an average creative American circa 2011. It is easier to empathize with his character. Woody Allen is an outlier and his presence turns the show into a satire.
I see how the film tells a story about a mythical Meta-Paris, a place and time where one feels happy, and empowered to control his environment and life.
The upper class Californians are spot on. I have met such a family when visiting the famous Hitler's Eagle Nest. (I wish Wood Allen had time for a plot like that: Midnight at Berchtesgaden).
I am giving only 8 stars because the American theme in the film is overblown and leaves no air for the European theme.