Narration and blah, blah, blah

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2010)

If this is a comedy, so is "No Country For Old Men' Nothing here is funny. Fair enough, but unfortunately not much is interesting either. This seems to be another Woody Allen throw away movie The characters are out of a textbook of psychoanalytic and ethnic stereotypes. The principles talk Woody Allen pseudo-deep talk and then talk some more; in fact, they talk so much that a narrator has to actually tell us what is going on. They have sex here and there, which is filmed so that it is almost as boring as the talking.
The characters only make sense if this were set in the 1960s, and even then, they would be particularly naive for that time. They change at the whim of a script that seems written for a "let's get five more minutes in here" purpose. What should be complicated transitions are handled by a word or two from a narrator, who even has a word or two about characters' thoughts.
Barcelona is beautiful. Go there for a visit. Too bad Woody Allen couldn't have made a better movie in it.