Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
Twilightfa
Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
Helllins
It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
Jenni Devyn
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Python Hyena
Everyone Says I Love You (1996): Dir: Woody Allen / Cast: Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Tim Roth: Exquisite musical comedy that remembers when musicals were popular entertainment. The characters express themselves fully by lyrics. Several subplots all evolve around the trials within one family. An engaged couple express love through song before she accidentally swallows the engagement ring buried in her dessert. Her mother is played by Goldie Hawn who wishes to create better lifestyles for prison inmates. Woody Allen plays her ex-husband who seeks advice from his daughter on how to win the affection of a married Julia Roberts. She fills him in after listening in on her therapy sessions. Ranks among Allen's best works, which includes Manhattan Murder Mystery and Mighty Aphrodite. Great ensemble cast engages in witty comic dialogue and many inspired moments. Despite a few unnecessary music numbers Allen proves to understand the musical era delivering an outstanding scene where he engages Hawn and her body drifts aimlessly. Alan Alda plays Hawn's current husband who always seems to be sick. Roberts is superb as the object of desire who must make a big decision. Tim Roth is hilarious as a convict invited by Hawn into her home. It ranks among the best of musicals rendering it a film everyone should love. Score: 9 / 10
SnoopyStyle
Psychologist Steffi Dandridge (Goldie Hawn) and lawyer Bob Dandridge (Alan Alda) head a liberal upper class Manhattan family. The extended family includes Steffi's ex Joe Berlin (Woody Allen), their daughter Djuna Berlin (Natasha Lyonne), Skylar (Drew Barrymore), Lane (Gaby Hoffmann), Laura (Natalie Portman), grandpa with dementia and the black sheep Republican son Scott (Lukas Haas). Holden Spence (Edward Norton) is in love with Skylar. Von (Julia Roberts) is one of Steffi's patients. Charles Ferry (Tim Roth) is an ex-con.This is a Woody Allen musical. The music is easy listening and everybody does a good job singing. Some are surprisingly good but the songs aren't terribly challenging. The overwhelming family can be hard to take. I would have preferred some trimming of the family tree. It would have been better to concentrate on one relationship. The effect is a bit scatter shot.
KineticSeoul
Now I did like the old school style direction when it came to this musical. And the musical numbers is good and even cute in some cases. But despite how it tries to go in that sweet and meaningful direction of it all, it just didn't work all together. This has multiple different subplots going but it just wasn't all that effective. Even if it does kinda tie together in the end for the most part. With Woody Allen's character story as the primary. Although I didn't really watch this for Woody Allen but for Edward Norton, who is almost impossible to dislike. This just wasn't all that absorbing despite it trying to be sweet and charming, I just didn't fall for it. The plot is about characters trying to find there path, which revolves around love, sex, fantasies, politics, enjoying life, Christian and atheist views. It even tries to be witty and edgy but wasn't feeling it. Like I said it does tie together in the end but not all that well. Fans of Woody Allen might like this film, it does have a lot of his trademarks in this. Woody Allen put a lot of ideas into this movie, but everything just seemed so rushed and poorly developed. It seem to lack heart and goes more towards opinionated life views, which isn't even all that deep. Edward Norton is always cool though. And the musical number and choreography is good but also forgettable. This movie is about a hour and a half long but felt longer. It's disappointing since this has a good cast.3.6/10
kaaber-2
but I'm here to complain. I find the film embarrassing. Its slipshod dramaturgy (not foreign to Allen) makes "Meet Me in St. Louis" look like Shakespeare. The voice-over babbles on and on so as to make you think that Woody Allen ought to have written a novel instead.The film as such seems like a sorry excuse for the musical numbers which are few and far between. And then, as often with Allen, I feel like having to listen to a guy who goes on and on about his affairs with beautiful women and what a great lover he is. This time he's taking Julia Roberts and Goldie Hawn hostages. I wish I could believe that it's all tongue-in-cheek, but I can't. I give it two stars for the music only.