the first allen penned movie that truly shines. featuring keaton and roberts who later became staples for allen films. this movie was simply hilarious, and i really have nothing bad to say about it. the imagined conversations with bogey and his ex-wife are genius.

Surprisingly flat in the early sections, but it settles into some good territory.

I must say, I wouldn't mind having Bogart appearing once in a while to give me advice as well.

Good movie, but Woody Allen's shtick is a little excessive for my modern eye.

Yet another quality Woody Allen film. It's crammed with a hundred jokes that are great and quotable and features Woody's best leading lady in another great role. So many hilarious scenes and situations and whoever the guy is that was cast as Bogart did a fantastic job.

This is probably Allen's best pre-Annie Hall film. It has a few of the corny one liners that litter most of his earlier movies, but they work alright here. They're sparse enough and funny enough not to get annoying. It doesn't hurt that I'm a little bit in love with Diane Keaton in this movie, too.

Sweet, effective comedy.

rs

The best of Woody's "early, funny" ones. (2 times)

Woody Allen at his best. "Play it again, Sam" is the highroad, and Allen drives ferrociously with an unreal pace. His flair for intertextual references is more out in the open, obviously worshipping Casablanca, making this film a tour-de-force in Allen's capabilities in forming both idea, script and subject matter.

Before watching this I was almost starting to think that I didn't like comedy - This had me in stitches. Allen is ridiculously funny. Absolutely brilliant.

Someone else did the heavy lifting, as Woody was mostly busy ghettoizing himself to groucho marxist anarchic comedies at the time, but a great indicator of the type of film Woody went on to direct himself. There's a whole lot of gutspilling and heartwrenching going on between and during the laughs, always unexpected from any era of comedy. An impressive little movie.

This movie shows how hard your life would be if you have Humphrey Bogart as your common sense. When directed by someone else how neurotic the "film" character Woody Allen is hits you like a slap.

The direction is a bit awkward but the film is so funny that I don't really care. It's also surprisingly sweet.

I don't know if it's because I haven't seen a classic Woody Allen film in long while or what but I loved this. Very quotable with a lot of laugh out loud scenarios. Many might find the physical comedy corny and it's not as witty as some of his better works but the Humphrey Bogart gimmick is funny as hell and the interplay between Keaton and Allen is great.

Awesome - but not as funny as love and death or sleeper. Favourite line - it's from the Casablanca, it's the line I always wanted to say.

27 haziran 2011, sezi'nin onerisi &

An interesting gimmick that pays off often enough to be worthwhile, the whole imaginary-Bogart takes some getting used to, but by the end it becomes the best part of the movie. Allen's other asides are a lot more hit-and-miss, but generally there's enough good feeling for anyone to get their money's worth out of the film (and Casablanca fans doubly so).