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5.0 out of 5 stars: Funny, Entertaining Woody Allen Comedy
Amazon Review By Karen511 on May 23, 2015
I have to say that I've been avoiding Woody Allen's more dramatic movies lately, so this one was a welcome return to his more funnier style of comedies from his prime years. And at least he finally had the good sense to cast himself as the older, "father"-type character (or at least a cheesy, second-rate magician who's been roped into pretending to be the female reporter's father, anyway, which winds up adding a funny level to the story) instead of the much, MUCH too-old "romantic" interest with the much younger woman that he kept doing in his later movies for far longer than was believable; this father-daughter dynamic, even it's a pretend conceit for the plot, is much more believable (and much less creepy), and Allen also returns to his fascination with cheesy stage-magic/magicians that we've seen in past movies to good effect. Although it's not his all-time best, it's still good and amusing and worth watching as an entertaining diversion. Plus his magician character does bear a welcome resemblance to his character in one of my favorites of his, "Broadway Danny Rose", in terms of his physical mannerisms and the way he tries to entertain people with his cheesy old-school lounge-act patter ("How old are you darling? Seriously, you're a beautiful audience..."), which is pretty funny when he tries it on a bunch of upper-class British aristocrats at a manor house lawn party! :) Recommended for fans of Woody Allen's comedies, or anyone just looking for an amusing & entertaining light comedy.