Review of Everyone Says I Love You (1996) by Forrest K — 06 Nov 2009

Thanks to Netflix instant streaming, finally got a chance to catch up with one of the few Allen films I've missed. It has several small joys, but it's also fairly tedious, filled to the brim with predictably stock Allen jokes and situations.

Whether you'll enjoy it entirely depends on your threshold for that sort of thing. The good pretty evenly balances with the bad - none of the characters are interesting in the least, but Tim Roth brings much-needed comic energy, Drew Barrymore is a doll, and overall the cast does what they can with the old-timey pastiche aesthetic.

An embarrassingly poor ghostly musical number is worth slogging through to get to the absolutely magical dance sequence at the end. I can't really recommend it, though - for Allen completists, only.