Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
There is nothing to set this work apart from any number of mediocre Allen films.
– Jean Oppenheimer,
Hollywood Reporter,
21 Sep 2003
rotten:
Who knows what sense an American Pie-digging, Woodman-ignorant undergrad might make of the canned rhythms, the trilobite-era one-liners, the awkward declarative dialogue, the Catskills-resort frames of reference, the freshman philosophy.
– Michael Atkinson,
Village Voice,
23 Sep 2003
rotten:
I didn't laugh once.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
27 Sep 2003
rotten:
Curiously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
9 Oct 2003
rotten:
None of this adds up to much of a movie; it's more like a filmed hodgepodge of not-fully- thought-out ideas and one-liners and small shards of jaundiced polemic.