Thursday 22 January 2015

Don't Drink the Water
Dir: Woody Allen
1994
***
I can see how Don't Drink the Water would have been a fantastic stage play back in the 1970's and even though it's not horrible, it's also not that great. It doesn't seem to flow as well as many of Woody Allen's films, the laughs come 1 per 10 minutes or so and are never from the belly. The cast is great though, Dom DeLuise, Mayim Bialik, Michael J. Fox, Julie Kavner, Erick Avari and Woody Allen himself are all on top form, it's just that any comedy that feels long at only 90 mins has lost its way somewhere. Maybe it's because we all know Allen can be better but unfortunately this film marked the decline in his work that has since become very hit and miss.

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