I had been meaning to see my first Woody Allen movie for a while, in a kind of halfhearted apathetic way. I was impressed when I did, both by its being better than I had expected and by its impossibility. The problem isn't in the premise, it's in the effortless replacement of a handsome, seductive character in the lead role with a scrawny, bespectacled, easily nauseated one. It's like a sloppy cut-and-paste job.
After thinking for a while, I realized that Woody Allen created a persona less of a single character than one of a couple: the inexplicable "Beauty and the Geek". He's done more for this relationship than any man or woman this Earth has ever seen, and by God, he's gotten away with it. I can't believe it.
Unfortunately for you, you knew all of this already and just wasted your time.
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