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...ALLEN HUJSAK -- San Diego...
...ALLEN J. SCHULER -- Louisville...
Radha Mitchell plays the fetchingly neurotic female lead, Melinda, a rich doctor’s ex-wife who can’t seem to pull her life together enough to find another husband. Though Allen fans may enjoy the now-familiar neuroses and emotional repression, Melinda suffers from a lack of originality that its overdone subject matter only emphasizes...
...characters are neither sympathetic nor unlikable; they’re just annoyingly one-dimensional and, perhaps worse, there is so little differentiation between them that all seem to be minor versions of Woody Allen. The actors pick up on this, and the result is a cast of profoundly self-absorbed Woody reincarnations who expound on the themes of marital infidelity and ennui from within the safe confines of mouth-watering Manhattan apartments...
...qualities of the other and neither is convincing. A nervous breakdown is so sudden and half-hearted as to be unaffecting, while the genuinely comic moment is when Hobie’s (Ferrell) bath robe gets caught in the front door of Melinda’s apartment. As expected, Allen errs on the side of humor, so that Melinda is really a pairing of two comedies, one darker than the other, neither of which is really funny...