Everyone Says I Love You

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.

A mish-mash of the mundane and divine, Everyone Says I Love You hits enough right notes to recommend, but with Allen struggling to maintain cohesion in this genre that he is clearly uncomfortable in, most of those notes were probably struck on accident than by design.

If Allen had fully embraced being a musical, this could've been something special.

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.

I guess Woody Allen's earned the right to indulge in this kind of thing if he wants to, but it's pretty weak. The musical sequences are mostly lifeless and forced, made worse by a cast with little talent for song and dance. With a couple of exceptions ("Hooray for Captain Spaulding" sung by a troupe of French Grouchos), they're not very fun, and I found myself getting annoyed that they kept interrupting the story. Natasha Lyonne is also a horrible actress, especially in her narration.

Decent. Tim Roth is the best thing about it.

Some of the musical parts are boring, but the rest is entertaining and at times made me laugh... in a general way it's a good comedy.

I'm gonna try and forget I saw this.

Not one memorable song. Also, say this out loud: "A Woody Allen musical". Yeaaah.

Woddy Allen is reprehensible and the sight of him sickens me. Thought this was a funny movie, though! (Update October 2011: Rated this in early August, yet I looked through my 'recent ratings' list and was surprised to find this on here. Except for the main idea behind the Allen/Roberts plot, I cannot remember a thing about this movie. Literally. Not a single thing. Dropped it down from 63 because a movie this forgettable can't be more than just 'decent'.)

Everyone Says I Love You is a magical movie with some good songs, a stunning dance sequence, classic Woody Allen characters and some very good comedy. The cast in this one is stellar. How could you go wrong with Edward Norton, Tim Roth and Alan Alda? You can't. You really can't. "I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier."

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

This movie almost made me disown Ed Norton for good. Woody Allen has played a cruel joke on us all.

A huge Woody Allen fan, but this is the worst musical I've ever seen. However, I'm finally starting to understand some of the Julia Roberts love. In a film full of good actors, she's the only one who's able to deliver a good performance with the sub-par material.

Woody Allen at his most charming - this movie clicks.

Even though a lot of the musical numbers were kind of pathetic, I did actually enjoy the movie. The cast is great, a young Natalie Portman and Edward Norton, both were good, and an awesome cameo by Tim Roth. I thought the dialogue was excellent, as you'd expect from a Woody Allen script. It's nice that you get a bunch of mini stories, instead of just one long one that might end up getting stretched too much and become boring.

The Woody Allen musical. His usual motifs (whiny intellectuals, etc.) don't quite fit the musical numbers, but this is still a winning film

Edward Norton the standout.

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73.000

I'm a big fan of Woody but this is one of his lesser efforts. He wanted to make a musical I guess.

i hate musicals

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.

62 year old Woody Allen romancing 30 year old Julia Roberts produces a gut reaction of disgust akin to finding dog shit on your couch. I don’t understand why an actress enjoying Roberts’ 90s success would sign up for such a humiliation ritual. The Ed Norton / Drew Barrymore / Natasha Lyonne parts are cute bright and musical and expanded out to feature length could have made a nice light entry in Woody’s filmography but Christ, I don’t need to see what looks like a woman kissing her elderly dad.

The music mostly isn't very good. A few of the plot threads - The Allen/Roberts creepiness, everything to do with the convict - are totally inert. Only saved by the cast, mostly Alda and Lyonne.

7???????????????????????

Flat and cheesy.

With this very movie, I have now completed watching all Woody Allen directed movies and I have to say that luckily this turned out to be one of his best

Charming, unpretentious -- a movie that's simply fun and goes down easy.

It's been a while, kind of forget this one.

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.

Corny and not in a fun way.

Musicals rarely work for me

Wow, even with Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Drew Barrymore, Natalie Portman and Goldie Hawn it is soured and spoiled by Woody Allen's rotten touch. It is more of the same old tired neurotic drivel that makes him unbearable. Perhaps if he had not written or acted in this movie it might not have been so impossible to enjoy. Such a waste of money, waste of talent, waste of time. The musical portions are asinine at best. I hope to never see another Woody Allen piece of crap movie ever again.

Charming ensemble romcom from Woody Allen, featuring a good mix of established actors with the then new faces of Edward Norton and Natalie Portman.

Famous people singing badly! Quite jolly none the less.

i need to watch every woody allen film so i can go back and rewatch them again. he can even make a good musical

I get the joke, but that doesn't change the fact that I had to sit through an hour of poorly-performed, drawn-out songs (and I love musicals!). Some funny moments, but not as many as the typical Woody Allen flick. The Flying Goldie Hawn Scene was the best thing about this film.

I grew up on Woody Allen and always appreciated his work, until recently. Honestly, his films are almost all the same. The same general joke, told by the newest up and coming actors alongside the veterans. The joke isn't bad, but it became stale 10 years before this came out. Some have been great, most have not. This being a musical obviously makes it a bit different, but honestly, not that much. It's a gimmick, and not a terribly entertaining one at that. Watchable, barely.

Itzhak Perlman? lol

This is the kind of film that you can enjoy with a goofy grin across your face the entire time, the kind of film smart enough to stay knowingly within its limits (a comic musical), and the kind of film just enough off kilter to be considered fresh in a genre often viewed as played out. The backdrops of NYC, Paris, and Venice really add to the overall feel of romance, and Woody plays a character more muted than is often the case in many of his films (a good thing in my view).

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.

very amusing