It is, in some ways, astonishing how fully formed the voice arrives. Woody Allen's first outing as director, writer, and actor contains, in embryonic but entirely recognizable form, nearly everything one associates with his subsequent work.
It is not, by any reasonable metric, a polished work. some jokes land better than others. the mockumentary format is deployed with a lot of enthusiasm and you can pretty much tell but it's also its charm its roughness, its sense of a comic intelligence discovering its own capabilities in real time, trying everything to see what sticks. and remarkably, most of it does.
the laughs come steadily, almost relentlessly.
It is, in some ways, astonishing how fully formed the voice arrives. Woody Allen's first outing as director, writer, and actor contains, in embryonic but entirely recognizable form, nearly everything one associates with his subsequent work.
It is not, by any reasonable metric, a polished work. some jokes land better than others. the mockumentary format is deployed with a lot of enthusiasm and you can pretty much tell but it's also its charm its roughness, its sense of a comic intelligence discovering its own capabilities in real time, trying everything to see what sticks. and remarkably, most of it does.
the laughs come steadily, almost relentlessly.