A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
There doesn't seem to be a driving idea behind it, a confident tone to give us the sure notion that Allen knows what he wants to do here.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
A pleasant disappointment, pleasant because he gets all the laughs he goes for in a visually charming, sweetly paced picture, a disappointment because he doesn't go for more.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
3 Jul 2008
rotten:
It's funny and sweet in spots, though the light moments get lost in the haze of imitation and ambitiousness.