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Summary: Not Very Good
Review: As someone who normally likes both Woody Allen and Bette Midler, this movie is a huge disappointment. The screenplay is trite, cliche, and only slightly funny; the setting is uninteresting; and the choice of music on the soundtrack is so ill-selected it becomes annoying. There is nothing creative or very funny about this movie at all--I don't even think I smiled (and this from someone who loves comedy and the two actors!). And the scenes with the mime were annoying and superfluous--even if you like mimes. Although both Midler and Allen give good performances, their on-screen chemistry together just never takes off, and their "couple-hood" is never very convincing. The truth is, their good acting just doesn't make up for the awful screenplay, and the fact that movie has no plot worth caring about. I must close by saying that this movie is, ufortunately, not worth seeing.
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Summary: A Very Wacky Comedy
Review: Bette Midler and Woody Allen are great as a married couple who are celebrating their 16th Wedding Anniversary.During the trip to the shopping mall,they admit to torrid affairs that they have been conducting behind each other's back:he's had four,she's only had the one.Bette is great in her trademark high-camp mode,and Bill Irwin is funny in his recurring mime show in the mall. Perhaps it would have been a much more biting piece of satire if Allen himself had directed the film,but Paul Mazursky does quite a good job.
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Summary: Bette and Woody?
Review: Bette Midler and Woody Allen together would make one think of a movie that is very funny and pleasing. Instead here we get one that has more romance and drama than comedy as Bette and Woody play a couple who is celebrating their wedding annivesary as their children have both left for school. They also discover that they have been cheating on one another. The movie gets boring rather fast as Bette and Woody are the only ones we get to see as there are very few supporting characters. I would have expected better from these two.
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Summary: A great Holiday Flick
Review: I am not a Woody Allen "Nut". I am not a Bette Midler "Nut". I can't stand Mimes ,however I love all three in this movie.
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Summary: Makes The Viewer Feel Like A Mensch Schlep!
Review: I am not a Woody Allen fan. His neurotic persona never appealed to me. I watched this movie because I like Bette Midler. This film makes the viewer feel like a mensch schlep (third wheel, tag-a-long) who went to the mall with them, & has to suffer through their angst, make-ups, yelling matches, etc. because you need a ride home. In between the couple's dysfunction a lame mime is tossed in to try & add some comic relief. This movie could have been so much more.
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Summary: Brilliant Film
Review: I've never understood why this movie was so panned and disliked by moviegoers. I have to assume that most viewers just didn't have a great deal of sophistication. This movie does, however, and Midler is especially amazing. The dialogue just flows so naturally, and the couple's superficial life and marraige delves into its past to recall what brought them together and what keeps them together. Moving, funny and so well done.
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Summary: This is my favorite movie! Scenes From a Mall
Review: Lets talk Scenes from a Mall. Starring Woody Allen and Bette Midler in this smart, talky, funny, challenging, heatwarming, sad, tear jerking, Christmas holiday fun! Nothing in this film is wrong except maybe the length, which in my opinion, could be extended some what with more laughs. Starting out at home, leaving the kids to go on a holiday skiing trip, on their sixteenth aniversary they prepare for an all day Christmas shopping spree at the local mall. When they get there they are already confronted with the zany antics of a mime (played well by Bill Irwin from the GRINCH). They exchange aniversary gifts and then extramarital revelations. With this we see an aray of different emotional acts... crying, screaming, hitting, throwing, talking, etc etc. It all changes in a second, very unexpectedly. That is one of things that makes this movie so good, is that everything is so unexpected. Scenes from a Mall is very unpredictable. With beautiful holiday sequences, sharp laughs, very dry humor, happy thoughts of the past, SFAM will not let you down! Including the awesome adaptions of "You Do Something to Me" by Marc Shaiman and an unmatchable vocal by Marlene Dietrich. Thank you Paul Mazursky for giving me a favorite movie, SCENES FROM A MALL is just that.
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Summary: I had belly laughs the whole way through
Review: Listen, I'm impartial about any movie star, and I haven't sat through many movies in the last two decades, but this one made me laugh, and wait for the next nutty scene. Why? I think because they caught the silliness of that Southern California bourgeois with Jewish overlay world very well. half the fun was watching Woody Allen's expressions. I also though the damn mime scene was painfully funny!
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Summary: I had belly laughs the whole way through
Review: Listen, I'm impartial about any movie star, and I haven't sat through many movies in the last two decades, but this one made me laugh, and wait for the next nutty scene. Why? I think because they caught the silliness of that Southern California bourgeois with Jewish overlay world very well. half the fun was watching Woody Allen's expressions. I also though the damn mime scene was painfully funny!
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Summary: The title says it all!
Review: This film is about a couple celebrating their wedding anniversary at a Los Angeles shopping mall. The celebration is bittersweet because the husband(Woody Allen) admits his affair to his wife(Bette Midler). The wife remains angry for a while but eventually forgives her husband. Allen and Midler have done better films than this. Midler's much better films include DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS,RUTHLESS PEOPLE and BIG BUSINESS(all made by Buena Vista like this one). Allen's subsequent film MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY from 1993 was much better than this.
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