Synopsis
Depressed actress Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) is pulled away from Manhattan to visit her hermit-like novelist father (Ed Harris), in hopes of finding some love letters he wrote to her mother, for which a publisher if offering a hefty sum.
Synopsis
Buddy (Will Ferrell) is a human raised at the North Pole, under the impression he’s an elf under the employ of Santa Claus. He travels to New York to reconnect with his father.
A recent Woody Allen film, Melinda and Melinda is about 75% enjoyable, 25% close but not cigarette. In the style of the film, I’ll alternate the bad with the good. First, the bad: Pretty much every Woody Allen film as of late has an expected “Woody Allen” role, usually played by Allen himself, but even in films he doesn’t appear in, the persona exists. In Bullets Over Broadway the “Allen role” was played by John Cusak. Hobie (Will Ferrel) is the Woody surrogate in Melinda and Melinda, and unfortunately falls into the trap of doing a Woody Allen impersonation, complete with nebbish whining, neurotic fretting, and hand gestures.
I’m glad I waited to rent Blades Of Glory. While I laughed at some parts, I was mostly uninvolved, and here’s also an odd, mocking homo-eroticism that I didn’t find as funny as the makers obviously did.