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List Price: $27.98 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $12.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2004 DVD Release : 25 October, 2005 |
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Melinda and Melinda description In Melinda and Melinda, Will Ferrell does a fine job playing Woody Allen--or at any rate, playing the fumbling, neurotic, lascivious character who appears in almost every Woody Allen movie (and is usually played by Allen himself). Hobie (Ferrell, Elf) is an unemployed actor who has fallen helplessly in love with Melinda (Radha Mitchell, High Art)--or at least with one version of Melinda, because Hobie's comic story runs parallel with a more serious version of the same plot, in which Melinda falls in love with a composer (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things). Melinda and Melinda is intended to be a sort of showdown between a comic and a tragic view of the world, but the comic story isn't all that funny and the tragic story isn't all that sad. You're more likely to feel annoyed by these characters than sympathetic to them, as they act more like Martians than New Yorkers; their responses and attitudes aren't exactly dated or implausible, they're mostly incomprehensible. The movie is still a step up from Anything Else, Allen's last effort; there are a handful of genuinely funny moments, Chloe Sevigny (as one of Melinda's best friends) and Mitchell are particularly good, and the turns of the two-fold plot--regardless of its genre--are engaging. However, these virtues will be best appreciated by those who are already Allen fans. --Bret Fetzer |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Melinda & Melinda: Is life comic or tragic? |
| Woody Allen's films ([[ASIN:B00005AUJK Crimes and Misdemeanors]], for example) often intertwine comic and tragic story lines. Set in Manhattan, Woody Allen's 2004 film, Melinda and Melinda, tells two stories, one comic, one tragic. A group of four writers having dinner at a Greenwich Village bistro eat, drink, and debate the interesting question: is life comic or tragic? Two sophisticated playwrights in the group (played by Larry Pine, [[ASIN:B0000640VJ The Royal Tenenbaums]], and Wallace Shawn, [[ASIN:6305069743 My Dinner with Andre]]), then tell two alternate versions of the same story involving a distraught young woman, Melinda (Radha Mitchell, [[ASIN:B00023P4M4 High Art]]). Allen reportedly wrote the title role for Winona Ryder. He has no acting part in the film. The point of the film illustrates that there is really no difference between comedy or tragedy. This film is by no means "mediocre," as some critics have unfairly claimed, though it is one of Allen's lesser films. Ultimately, the movie addresses the larger question, why do some viewers prefer light romantic comedies ([[ASIN:6304907729 Annie Hall]], for example) over dramas or tragedies.
G. Merritt |
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