Word: comicalities
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...This is no idle theory for Kapur. He's backing it with money, having persuaded New Age guru Deepak Chopra to help him set up Gotham Studios Asia, a business that will bring comic-book heroes such as Spider-Man and Batman to India, with new story lines in which brown-skinned superheroes battle figures from Indian myths in places like Calcutta. Kapur says he sold Chopra on the idea by telling him "that in five years we will notice a cultural change in the world, where Western pop culture will start to stagnate and a hybrid form of culture...
...tragic story is Lee (Jonny Lee Miller), a struggling actor, and his stylish wife Laurel (Chloë Sevigny). In the comic is Susan (Amanda Peet), a film director, and her actor husband Hobie (Will Ferrell). Shuttling between them as the cause or victim of many an infidelity is Melinda (Radha Mitchell), whose bruised allure men find irresistible--especially Hobie, the whiny Allen stand-in. One look at this wounded creature brings out both the beast and the veterinarian in him. He wants to ravage and save...
...given most of them clichés to inhabit. He has also stinted on inventiveness. Allen, in his Purple Rose of Cairo phase, might have allowed Hobie to step into the other story and rescue the tragic Melinda. The film's serious half could have been more powerful, the comic half lots funnier...
...actress. Mitchell has often been cast as the excess-baggage wife (Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Finding Neverland). Here, channeling the neuroses of all preceding Allen heroines, she exudes a hurt and danger, an intensely sexual intelligence that plays off her patrician beauty. In her care, Melinda is part comic, part tragic, all magic. --By Richard Corliss
...trick to creating a good comic persona is to find a new way to be unaware. Steve Carell has landed on just such a type: a confident, articulate buffoon who has no idea he's messing things up--Ted Knight without the bubbling insecurity, Will Ferrell without the boyish need to please. With his serious, Father Knows Best demeanor, Carell maintains self-assurance in the face of obvious failure; he's a pompous but lovable loser. "I myself am a lovable loser. So it's an easy transition," Carell says while sitting in the trailer for his upcoming movie...