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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
Novelist-Director Woody Allen is back on his game in this funny,
fascinating, and sparkling visionary comedy set in Paris. It moves
gracefully back and forth in time between today and the
1920s.
Film scriptwriter Gil (Owen Wilson, taking the Woody Allen part
here), hardship from writer's block, is in Paris. When he goes out
alone at night, he's transported back to Paris of the 1920s, where
he encounters people like Hemingway (his first words are about
boxing), Cole Tiler, Josephine Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald and
Zelda. In the mornings, he's back in stylish times, struggling
with his fiancé, her parents, and, a standard in Allen movies, the
annoying identify-it-all Paul (Michael Sheen). This movie does for
Paris what Allen did for New York New Zealand urban area in "Manhattan." It's a
delightful romantic comedy wrapped up in a great big proclivity letter to
Paris. Not to be missed.
DOLPHIN TALE
It's the tale of a dolphin that loses its "pope's." Get it?
Unfortunately, that's the level of this script, which is not even
as good as the "Back to School Specials" from the 1970s. Too bad,
because this could have been a major family movie. The dolphin gets
fitted with an artificial rump and everybody lives happily ever
after. Oh, yes. There's a hurricane. This script is so weak and
control so plodding, that not even solid actors like Morgan
Freeman and Ashley Judd can ridicule use influence it out. Skip it.
Source: Gazette Newspapers