Although Mia Farrow is billed as Woody Allen's co-star, few fans will recognize her as she hides behind dark glasses and a convincing Bronx accent. But Woody Allen himself is as delightfully neurotic and bizarre as usual. Nick Apollo Forte (a singer making his only movie appearance to date) is just wonderful as the not very able or amiable singer riding the crest of a nostalgia wave.
There are some gloriously funny throwaway lines, but for all its marvelous weirdness and wackiness, the script seems to have been only halfway thought out and too quickly committed to paper and camera. I think it would have been much funnier with more work.
There are some gloriously funny throwaway lines, but for all its marvelous weirdness and wackiness, the script seems to have been only halfway thought out and too quickly committed to paper and camera. I think it would have been much funnier with more work.