more than a couple times you can see woody allen's personal absurdity humor that fronts his more straight forward comedies. this movie could have been a great success had a few things been changed, almost no one fit their role, allen knows full well he doesn't belong anywhere near a musical, and he should have trimmed out the musical scenes and some unnecessary ones in favor of more humor.

In what to me appears to be an homage to Jacques Demy, Woody decides to basically goof around for 90 mins; poorly structured musical sequences (though somehow not without their charm), heavy reliance on improv, and some really campy performances. Still, I embraced it and had a lot of fun. Either a testament to Allen's ability to make filmmaking seem easy, or my unwillingness to admit that my love for his films is unconditional.

o tempo nem passa enquanto Woody Allen nos entrega, finalmente, o seu tão sonhado projeto musical. as musicais são legais, mas não é por isso que o filme é um dos melhores do Allen. deve ser porque a obsessão pelos relacionamentos está lá, porque o final feliz está lá e, ainda sim, os personagens têm espaço na história para serem quem eles realmente são.

Everything about the tone in this movie is all wrong. It's not so much that the idea of a Woody Allen musical is a bad one, it's that this ends up being rather lifeless and at times grating. If you enjoy Woody then there will be enough here to make this worth watching, but it's not a very successful experiment.

A cute and harmless but instantly forgettable little trifle. Also, Woody Allen romancing Julia Roberts physically repulses me. Go for your dream, Woody, I believe in you - write that 2013 project where you romance Dakota Fanning.

Corny and not in a fun way.

Some things work like Allen-things can work: performances from Alda and especially Tim Roth, small jokes (the ones that aren't forced), etc. But this is a weak shadow of what Woody Allen can do. Like, what's the point of the younger sisters? And the whole musical thing. So they sing. It's another obvious typical-for-Allen intertextual reference, but it varies from bad to extremely painful. Litterally, sometimes, it looks like the actors are mumbling, to make the pain of singing easier to endure.

It's not bad, it is in fact rather delightful, though the music is quite abysmal.

I'm gonna try and forget I saw this.