Just makes me wonder....

Rating: 2/10 (5 January 2009)

Who are these people? do they exist anywhere? What are they for? What do they live on? why is anyone who actually works for a living depicted as a schmuck? Who talks like this? What purpose is there in making a film about them? How can a purportedly intelligent filmmaker reference Spanish identity and yet present the country (especially Barcelona) as a series of banal tourist postcards and cultural clichés? Does Woody Allen now live totally in his imagination? What's the intended audience for this unreal farrago? When are talented actors going to realise that adding a modern Woody Allen film to their CV is a negative? When am I going to stop watching Woody Allen films in the hope that he'll rediscover a relevant muse - or even the ability to entertain?