Recovers from a jarring moment where they break the fourth wall, better than I expected. I expected it to suck even though I like Larry David and Woody Allen.

Ten years after his great expectoration of bile in Deconstructing Harry, Woody Allen comes up with Whatever Works -- the most shameless, cynically titled Hollywood con job since the days of Billy Wilder.

so sadly; this movie is very very weak. i wish it was well crafted and grabbed me by the balls, but in all manners it is just light and rushed. also the characterization sucked big time.

As we know from past experience, other people trying to be the voice of Woody Allen never works. I love Larry Davis but here he sounds incredibly awkward delivering these lines. The film does have a few good jokes, even one or two howlingly funny ones. But they're lost in a morass of tired bits, uninteresting plot developments, and stock characters who transform into other stock characters. The uptight religious conservative who discovers he's a repressed homosexual? REALLY, Woody?

not nearly as funny and enjoyable as "curb your enthusiasm"

Allen is stuck on chaos theory lately, my guess it's fear of death that did this to him. We get your point of view: nothing has any meaning, there is no god and everyone should find happiness doing whatever works for them. Now go see a therapist and move on, Woody. (One of the) worst movies of his. One note characters, one note story and a few giggles coming from absurd situations and Larry David being an asshole is hardly even a film material.

Won't be regarded as one of Allen's best, but I'm not fussed, I enjoyed this a lot. Once you get past the fact that Larry David isn't playing Larry David, and is playing Woody Allen then there so much here to enjoy. Allen contemplating existence and death is convoluted, but very funny. One drawback is Cavill, who is terrible. There is one scene where Wood asks him "you must be a good actor" and he replies "I try", when he should have said "no, I'm fucking terrible at it". Still recommended.

"The worst thing about Woody's latest is Larry David." - Henry Stewart

I really, really, really wanted to hate this movie. Woody Allen's Boris is such a despicable character--proclaiming himself to be smarter than everybody else and disgustingly filling his boring little life with constant belittling of other people. That being said, there was something very special about the chemistry between Boris and his new companion from The South, and the exploration of where their budding relationship would take them.