Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

benm-41751 Radio Days is an unrelenting ode to radio in the 1940's, to all the memories that so many millions of Americans surely have connected to songs and shows on the radio and memories of the radio itself. To sing this ode, the movie presents a number of wild and strange stories all somehow accompanied by what was playing on the airwaves. And while the movie pays tribute to a unique warmth, grit, and glamor of that particular decade coupled with the last golden days of radio, I think that it can speak to how anyone growing up in the past century has connected moments in our lives to radio, music, shows, movies, art, and even video games in ways that make no sense at all yet make perfect sense to us.So the movie very much accomplishes its goal, however the method is very heavy-handed. The first half of the movie is not a lot more than a series of caricatures playing out very contrived situations. Some of them would be comedy genius if they were really allowed to play out, but the movie moves so fast through them that it's hard to get attached. The characters during this time feel like there is little more beyond the surface, unfortunately a bit like community theater. Not to mention that the film relies on a narrator to make anything hold together, and even he can't deliver convincing transitions from one scene to another.The second half of the movie slows down, and suddenly the characters become real people, and the wild situations sink in and become funny. In the end it's an entertaining and endearing movie, but I personally thought it was almost overshadowed by the director's very clear motives. If the people and the memories of the era are so worthy of an ode, he should have let it all speak for itself!

daoldiges I've seen this movie a couple of times now and it fits me better with each viewing. The wonderful score, cinematography, really wonderful performances and so much nostalgia for a bygone era that may or may not have been, it's just an easy delight. This film isn't at all reflective of my boyhood growing up, and yet I feel so connected to it and the messages and feelings Woods is trying to convey. Diane Wiest in particular creates a truly endearing character. I suspect that I will give this film another look before too long, and if you haven't already seen it I suggest you do so.

Hitchcoc I was born just after this era diminished. There were still radio shows that I would occasionally listen to, but when my dad brought home the Admiral (television, that is), we became a TV family. This film is one of those that allows the listener to enter a soft world that we wish really existed. During the radio experience, we had two world wars and a depression. So Americans had to live in their heads, their imaginations. The characters who spoke from that little box (seldom resembling the people they played) used their voices to pull us out of the mundane and the dangerous, and let us encounter every manner of experience. For all of his foibles, Woody Allen is the master of nostalgia. Here her presents some vignettes that have a core in our feelings and our loves. If asked to describe a radio hero, each would have described their own, like leaves and snowflakes, all different.

SnoopyStyle This movie starts with two burglars answering the phone during a break-in. They win the radio contest and the next day, the homeowners are shocked by the arrival of the winnings after finding their home robbed. Woody Allen narrates this nostalgic recollection of vignettes during his childhood. Joe (Seth Green) lives in Rockaway Beach with his parents Tess (Julie Kavner) and Martin (Michael Tucker) as well as an extended family. His imagination and his memories deliver stories about the people in his life and the radio they listen to. There is the War of the Worlds broadcast. Joe's favorite character is the Masked Avenger. There are also stories about the radio peronalities and aspiring actress cigarette-girl Sally White (Mia Farrow).Woody delivers a loving tribute to the concept of radio through the eyes of childhood. This has a large cast with wide ranging vignettes. It's imaginative, touching, and fun. The characters are specific and compelling. There is a terrific veneer of memory. Through all the surreal and the real, there is the love of family and radio that transcends the screen onto the audience.