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Other weaknesses were mainly the fault of the script. The first act failed to be very interesting, since it’s mostly used to establish characters??€”the spacey blonde, the apologetic wimp, the alcoholic stage veteran—by harping on their idiosyncrasies, which meant that much of the act’s humor was repetitive and rooted in slapstick...
...they go on shopping sprees, they get flustered when they have to pump gas, and they manage to get lost on road trips despite the GPS in their Range Rovers. It’s ironic then—what with the editors’ reducing them to two-dimensional characters??€”that the opening credits feature Jaime and Ally depicted as paper dolls resting in a purse. Do we think they understand that’s not a good thing...
...audience laughed at his dramatic meltdown which was sparked when a single disgusted look from Annie made him realize her infidelity to him. Mason and Jaggers did their best with the parts they were given, but they didn’t really give a strong sense of their characters??€™ personalities. This could have been Stoppard’s fault; his female characters function more as foils to the men than as lively figures in their own right. Eda Pepi ’06, as Henry and Charlotte’s daughter Debbie, was a memorable but absurdly over...
...changed from London to America, and although the alterations were transparent—cricket was turned into baseball, and so on—the changes spared us from having to hear the bevy of uneven and indistinguishable English accents that so frequently plague American productions of British plays. The characters??€™ repartee sparkled—even thrived—despite its down-to-earth delivery; the cast made Stoppard’s dialogue seem natural instead of stilted and Wildean. The set speeches were a bit uneven: the more comic ones proceeded well, but some of Stoppard?...
...Jason Biggs—clearly inserted as an idealized younger version of Allen—the film ultimately suffers from having too many characters who are all just too crazy to be believed. Squandering a cast which includes Stockard Channing and Danny DeVito is no easy feat, but the characters??€™ conflicting neuroses, psychoses and bizarre philosophical views grow tiresome long before the film has finished its first hour. In titling his movie Anything Else, Allen has unwittingly suggested which movies potential theatergoers would be better off seeing...