Everyone Says I Love You

Woody Allen, one of my absolute favorite film directors, goes against the grain of his normal outings with a very creative cinematic device which involves making a bright, happy musical that takes the course of a normal film starring actors... Full review

Aside from a couple of liabilities, which I'll mention a little further down this review, this is top-notch Woody Allen, a work that gives as many delights as his earlier work, but is also marvelous in that it's an experiment... Full review

Woody Allen made a musical comedy with some romance in 1996.The movie's called Everyone Says I Love You and it tells about the Dandridge family living in New York.Alan Alda is the father Bob, Goldie Hawn is the mother Steffi,... Full review

A fresh and original musical comedy, the film takes classic songs and fits them into a new vision with some different dance routines. The choreography is lively and the actors and actresses do not look like professional dancers, which helps... Full review

So, Everyone Says I Love You is pretty much the typical Woody Allen comedy, complete with all the staples that define his oeuvre; lots of neurotic characters, a performance from the man himself, New York City...only this time, there's one... Full review

I must say that musicals don't really appeal to me, maybe it's because I'm young and am accustomed to more action and special effects from today's typical style... but this movie totally surprised me! The star cast including Drew Barrymore... Full review

This is a wonderfully funny story, affectionately parodying old-time musicals, and evoking a nostalgic regret that they are not being made any more. Some of the vocalizations are amateurish (Alan Alda is an exception) but Dick Hyman's musical arrangements and... Full review

Spoilers herein.Woody makes movies the same way he plays jazz, for himself. And what concerns him is metatext and self-awareness. So over the years he has marched through major styles of film -- mostly those which concern a self-aware shift... Full review

In an old fashioned musical, the loves and losses of an extended upper-class family in Manhattan are followed in song from NY to Paris and Venice.The company logo comes onscreen followed closely by the white title on a black background.... Full review

Woody Allen is one of those film-makers who some people love and others detest. I generally count myself as one of the former, but find this particular movie hard to take. The elements I certainly enjoy are several of the... Full review

Reviewed by Colin Jacobson: ...a total mess that wasted the talents of many fine performers. URL: http://www.dvdmg.com/everyonesaysiloveyou.shtml - 23k - 17 Aug 2008 Reviewed by Colin Jacobson: The 2006 version of The Shaggy Dog could have been worse, as a ... Full Article

By PHIL VILLARREAL Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Marx Brothers movies make little sense and have no class.They're cruel, snide and surly.Bless 'em. Who knows how depressing the Great Depression would have been had the Marx Brothers not brought... ... Full Article

No one seeing "Everyone Says I Love You," Woody Allen's latest film, will wonder what's in it for him.What's in it for audiences is somewhat more problematical. ... Full Article

M urder goes unpunished and true love unrewarded in Woody Allen's relentless "Crimes and Misdemeanors," a disparaging word or two on the sorry state of the world today. ... Full Article

"I couldn't help thinking while watching this film that it is right up Stephan Elliott's street. Steph has said on more than one occasion that his favourite movies are musicals, the more characters bursting into song in surreal situations the... ... Full Article