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Oct 25, 2006
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Kenneth Plays Woody..
Some clever dialogue & funny moments...
Branagh plays Lee Simon , a lowly travel writer who itches to become a celebrity journalist.
But writer-director Allen doesn't begin to get the details down.
Star-chasing Simon carries only a pocket-sized notepad, on which he occasionally scribbles some notes.
As the husband of a local newspaper editor, I can tell you that the backpacks of my wife's staffers weigh more than Simon does. (Simon is also an aspiring novelist and scriptwriter, yet he still composes on a typewriter, and he had only a single manuscript of his half-completed novel... Forget computers, even--hasn't this guy ever heard of copy machines ?)
Simon inexplicably gets assigned celebrity beats and does his best to foul them up.
In the middle of an orgy with the room-trashing heartthrob ( Dicaprio ), Simon tries to get the guy to green-light his script.
Simon's date with a hot fashion model ( Charlize Theron ) is ruined when he plows his sports car into a showroom during a passionate kiss .
In the meantime, Allen inserts some scattershot satire.
We're meant to lament a pop culture that makes celebrities of one-hit wonders and supermodels.
This lecture disguised as a movie carries little weight, coming from a director who shuns publicity yet still gets photographed at
In middle-class America, we call that having our cake and eating it too.
The rest of Allen's standard big-name cast --including Joe Mantegna, Winona Ryder, and Melanie Griffith --come off as ciphers.
Allen , once renowned for his movies' memorable females, here presents Bebe Neuwirth (of "Cheers" and "Frasier") as a prostitute who tutors Robin , in the most insulting female movie scene of the year.
One gets the impression that if the 62-year-old Allen would ever get over his obsession with sexual mechanics (Mighty Aphrodite was weighed down with it), he might again give us some interesting characters...
【Judy Davis】Celebrity【Kenneth Branagh】
Allen's weak take on CELEBRITY..
Did anyone ever ask you who would play you in the movie of your life??? Just think about it for a moment.. If they were making a movie about you, who would play you??? It's actually kind of a stupid question.. Even amongst famous people, very few people actually get a movie made about them in their lifetime, so in all likelihood, even assuming there is a movie about your life, the person who will play you, probably hasn't even been born yet, or if they have, they are probably at least 30 years younger than you, and it would probably never occur to you to choose them...
Anyway, I pick Denzell Washington.
I think it's a good pick.
He's got this certain sophistication about him.
I think I could do a lot worse than to have Denzell portray me...
Maybe there could even be a scene where I (he) take(s) off my (his) shirt...
You know.... for the ladies.
Perhaps Celebrity's biggest failure is its utter pointlessness.
It's not that any of the brigade of actors had performances that ruined the film.
Quite the contrary, most of them performed admirably.
No, instead the problem is that they don't have a whole lot to work with.
There is no real point to the meanderings of the main character, Lee ( Branaugh ).
As I said, he represents Allen himself , but as viewers we are left to say, " Yes, you have problems with women. Is there anything else? "
Let me save you 113 minutes of your time.
No, there is nothing else.
There is a bit of a coming-out story to the character of Robin ( Judy Davis ), his ex-wife, but the entire point of her subplot is explained on the back of the box and this narrative thread is hardly enough to weave an enjoyable story out the packaging twine that serves to form the rest of the screenplay...
What more can I say about this film. Not a lot.
This is most likely because the film doesn't have a lot to say itself.
Sorry if Im rambling here a little bit, but if I learned anything from this film, its that if I do enough pointless rambling on the page, eventually supermodels and movie starlets will come out of the woodwork and want to sleep with me.
Oh well, perhaps I'm just not neurotic enough.
Wait, I'm very neurotic.
I guess the movie just sucks.
"Celebrity" is rated R for explicit language, adult situations, & scenes of drug use...
Some clever dialogue & funny moments...
Branagh plays Lee Simon , a lowly travel writer who itches to become a celebrity journalist.
But writer-director Allen doesn't begin to get the details down.
Star-chasing Simon carries only a pocket-sized notepad, on which he occasionally scribbles some notes.
As the husband of a local newspaper editor, I can tell you that the backpacks of my wife's staffers weigh more than Simon does. (Simon is also an aspiring novelist and scriptwriter, yet he still composes on a typewriter, and he had only a single manuscript of his half-completed novel... Forget computers, even--hasn't this guy ever heard of copy machines ?)
Simon inexplicably gets assigned celebrity beats and does his best to foul them up.
In the middle of an orgy with the room-trashing heartthrob ( Dicaprio ), Simon tries to get the guy to green-light his script.
Simon's date with a hot fashion model ( Charlize Theron ) is ruined when he plows his sports car into a showroom during a passionate kiss .
In the meantime, Allen inserts some scattershot satire.
We're meant to lament a pop culture that makes celebrities of one-hit wonders and supermodels.
This lecture disguised as a movie carries little weight, coming from a director who shuns publicity yet still gets photographed at
In middle-class America, we call that having our cake and eating it too.
The rest of Allen's standard big-name cast --including Joe Mantegna, Winona Ryder, and Melanie Griffith --come off as ciphers.
Allen , once renowned for his movies' memorable females, here presents Bebe Neuwirth (of "Cheers" and "Frasier") as a prostitute who tutors Robin , in the most insulting female movie scene of the year.
One gets the impression that if the 62-year-old Allen would ever get over his obsession with sexual mechanics (Mighty Aphrodite was weighed down with it), he might again give us some interesting characters...
【Judy Davis】Celebrity【Kenneth Branagh】
Allen's weak take on CELEBRITY..
Did anyone ever ask you who would play you in the movie of your life??? Just think about it for a moment.. If they were making a movie about you, who would play you??? It's actually kind of a stupid question.. Even amongst famous people, very few people actually get a movie made about them in their lifetime, so in all likelihood, even assuming there is a movie about your life, the person who will play you, probably hasn't even been born yet, or if they have, they are probably at least 30 years younger than you, and it would probably never occur to you to choose them...
Anyway, I pick Denzell Washington.
I think it's a good pick.
He's got this certain sophistication about him.
I think I could do a lot worse than to have Denzell portray me...
Maybe there could even be a scene where I (he) take(s) off my (his) shirt...
You know.... for the ladies.
Perhaps Celebrity's biggest failure is its utter pointlessness.
It's not that any of the brigade of actors had performances that ruined the film.
Quite the contrary, most of them performed admirably.
No, instead the problem is that they don't have a whole lot to work with.
There is no real point to the meanderings of the main character, Lee ( Branaugh ).
As I said, he represents Allen himself , but as viewers we are left to say, " Yes, you have problems with women. Is there anything else? "
Let me save you 113 minutes of your time.
No, there is nothing else.
There is a bit of a coming-out story to the character of Robin ( Judy Davis ), his ex-wife, but the entire point of her subplot is explained on the back of the box and this narrative thread is hardly enough to weave an enjoyable story out the packaging twine that serves to form the rest of the screenplay...
What more can I say about this film. Not a lot.
This is most likely because the film doesn't have a lot to say itself.
Sorry if Im rambling here a little bit, but if I learned anything from this film, its that if I do enough pointless rambling on the page, eventually supermodels and movie starlets will come out of the woodwork and want to sleep with me.
Oh well, perhaps I'm just not neurotic enough.
Wait, I'm very neurotic.
I guess the movie just sucks.
"Celebrity" is rated R for explicit language, adult situations, & scenes of drug use...
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