This time writer-director Woody Allen takes on the musical genre and fashions it to his own unique vision. The result is one of the most charming films in recent years, as Allen assembles a typically sterling ensemble cast to evoke the romanticism of years past. The plot centers on an extended family in New York and their various romantic entanglements, including Allen’s pursuit of Julia Roberts through the streets of Paris and the canals of Venice. The musical numbers are the film’s high point, displaying wonderful choreography ranging from a room full of dancing Groucho Marxes to a dancing couple in flight at the banks of the Seine. ... a witty and entertaining fantasy, and a truly romantic escape.

“ ...A movie that remembers the innocence of the old Hollywood musicals and combines it with one of Allen’s funniest and most labyrinthine plots, in which complicated New Yorkers try to recapture the simplicity of first love. It would take a heart of stone to resist this movie.
Allen’s most inspired decision was to allow all of his actors to sing for themselves, in their own voices (all of them except for Drew Barrymore, who just plain can’t sing). Some of them are accomplished (Alan Alda, Goldie Hawn, Edward Norton). The rest could hold their own at a piano bar. Allen knows that the musical numbers are not about performance or technical quality or vocal range; they’re about feeling.” —Roger Ebert
101 minutes. Rated R (for some language, adult themes). MORE FILM INFO

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