Film Review: Annie Hall
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Friday Film Review this week is of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Now, this film never really interested me at all, but it’s on a bunch of lists of romantic movies, so I was like: “Alright. I’ll watch it.” Then I did.
The movie’s weird, and the main guy looks a lot like Woody Allen and tells jokes that aren’t that funny, but it’s kinda cool if you have nothing better to do I guess. Or if a girl wants to watch something, then you can just be like: “Oh. I guess we could watch this.” So, I guess it gets five stars for Valentine’s Day.
Annie Hall: Five Stars
Annie Hall is a mockumentary about this guy Alvy who looks a lot like Woody Allen (frankly I think he could get sued) who travels through time and looks at all this stuff from when he was a kid and lived under a roller coaster and when he was dating this girl Annie.
Alvy talks to the camera a lot, and tells really bad jokes, which is really just lazy film making and breaks a lot of rules about it (I’ve read books). And now he’s all sad because Annie broke up with him so he has to like go back and check out all the stuff they did, and when he’s a kid he talks with a shrink about how the universe is expanding. Then he’s old again and going to see some Nazi movie and the dude behind him is a total weirdo so Alvy tells more jokes to the camera. Then when he tries to have sex with Annie, she’s all “No thanks.”
So, Alvy goes back in time and we meet his first wife who works for this charity and then she becomes all weird and hosts parties for writers and stuff with a bunch of different cheeses, so Alvy’s like “This blows,” and watches basketball. Then we see this guy try and cook lobsters but they get loose, which is pretty stupid because lobsters can’t go anywhere really when you think about it.
And we see all this stuff from their relationship and she’s a bad driver and Alvy’s all “Whoa. You’re a bad driver” and she’s all “La-de-da. I love you.” And she’s a singer, so Alvy goes and sees her show. She’s a pretty bad singer, but Alvy lies to her to make her feel better.
Then they go to her house and Christopher Walken’s her brother and he talks about running people over with his car, and Alvy makes a bad joke about it and leaves. Then he buys Annie a bunch of depressing books, and she breaks up with him and moves to LA to sing for this weird porno guy.
Alvy’s pissed and tries to date other girls but they’re weird so he goes out to LA to visit another weird porno guy that’s his friend and they go to the weird porno guy that Annie knows’ house and Alvy crashes his car and yells at the police and talks with Annie and she’s all: “I don’t love you. La-de-da.” So he writes a bad play about the movie and then is all “Well, it’s a bad play, I know.” Then he says some stuff about relationships and makes some more bad jokes, and the movie’s over.
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