Whatever

Whatever Works (2009)

Woody Allen returns to New York film making with this comedy staring Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood. An angry old man meets an impressionable young girl from the South and a bunch of peoples lives get changed.

Larry David as the ranting old man is the best thing about this film and provides most of the humour, unfortunately the rest of the film is not as impressive. Sadly the characters that undergo the biggest and most interesting changes in their life style get little screen time and I do not understand why if the girl's mother changes so much that she lives in a ménage a trois with two guys why she can not accept her daughter being married to an older man. It also does not help that the film wants to ram home it's message repeatedly and without much subtlety.

3/5 not one of Allen's best films.