A Good Outing for Woody

Rating: 7/10 (20 July 2012)

This is definitely an amusing and funny Woody Allen comedy – I laughed out loud a few times. It consists of several stories – none connected to the other and each with a different theme.
Not all are of the same calibre – but let's start positively. Woody is hilarious and in fine form. Roberto Benigni adds a lot of energy as I would have expected. Penelope Cruz is simply hot and exudes her charms – a lot of her scenes are a hoot.
However Jesse Eisenberg is simply tiresome – he has no tonality and I simply find him boring. Ditto for Ellen Page. All their scenarios slowed the pace and made it tedious. Same for Alec Baldwin – the dialogue was predictable. And the opera bath-tub singing was simply overdone – we got the message after the first couple of times – no need to repeat endlessly.
Anyhow I enjoyed this more than "Midnight in Paris" – Woody added zest in this Italian version.