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...involves a change of topic (examining the world of journalism) as well as one of location, the legendary actor/director chooses to stick to his trademark style, examining his own Freudian desires and the politics of film through wry, nervous humor. The choice proves an excellent one: “Scoop?? is easily the most thoughtful comedy of the summer...
...film’s director and writer, Allen gets plenty of comedic mileage out of the strangers-in-a-strange-land shtick. However, a strong trepidation lies beneath the laughs. Excluding “Match Point,” “Scoop?? is the only movie Allen has shot abroad in his thirty years of directing. Away from his New York stomping ground, he’s the new kid on the block, and he seems nervous about ending up as the crass “Ugly American” among an old-world city?...
Thankfully, as with “Annie Hall” and some of Allen’s other films, it is the director’s nervous tics that drive “Scoop?? to hilarity. The other actors’ performances aren’t quite on-par with those of earlier Woody pieces—Jackman’s Australian accent occasionally surfaces, and Johansson’s Sondra is uneven—but they never cause the film to lose comic traction...
...best things about “Scoop?? is that Allen’s predicament remains his own. Close up, the fear and disappointment of it all might even prove disconcerting, but it’s great fun to watch from the comfortable distance of the other side of the Atlantic...
...Allen’s follow-up, “Scoop.” During the “Match Point” shoot, she approached the director and professed her desire to act with him on-screen. Allen agreed to do a comedy with her, and “Scoop?? was filmed last summer.Johansson is painfully shy about divulging details about the film, which is set for release in 2006. European trade website screendaily.com is a bit more forthcoming, describing Johansson’s role as that of a journalism student investigating a string of murders in London...