Wonderful Movie

Great Film overall

Best movie ever!

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Easy to sum this picture up: Movie-about-movies + Woody Allen plays himself again + Deus Ex Machina happy ending. Foolish add-ins like a rat-eating rock musician son who Woody, playing the same nebbish as always, allegedly took fishing as a child. I realized I wasn't getting any enjoyment from the film when it took me three separate logins on HBONow to finish it.

Although there were definitely some funny lines, 'Hollywood Ending' was incredibly boring. Ridiculous slapstick, gags that went on WAY too long, and tedious mundane bits.I know every Woody Allen film can't be as great as his 'Manhattan' or 'Annie Hall', but this movie was simply dreadful. Couldn't wait for it to be over ~ almost unheard of for one his flicks.Gave a very generous 3* out of 10.

For Woody Allen fans - this is one of the last ones with him acting so it is worth a watch. Unfortunately it's one of his weaker pictures. There are some laugh out loud moments esp his scene with Tea Leoni in the bar. The hypochondria isn't that funny. The main premise is interesting psychosomatic blindness but wears thin after a while. The supporting cast is not well utilized. Everyone is made to talk in that Woody Allen way. Tiffany Thiessen has such a small part. George Hamilton just a few lines. The Chinese cameraman and interpreter are quite funny at first. But overall it still is worth a watch for the pleasant neat storyline and the laughs in between. Just isn't that funny after all.

The mark of a good comedy is that audiences must get a healthy dose of Buster Keaton kind of humor.If that is not the case,a film must not be considered a good example of a classic of comedy genre.Woody Allen surely knows how to make films as he has made films which have become an integral part of American cultural landscape.However,it can be said that his magic has not at all worked wonders with "Hollywood Ending",a strange film which was chosen to open Cannes International Film festival 2002.The trouble with "Hollywood Ending" is that one does not know what Woody Allen is trying to portray.The comedy parts are very much dramatic in nature and laughs are few and far between.This is due to the fact that at surface level his film looks like a product of American culture but on deep introspection one finds that Woody Allen has made a film that not only takes American cinema for a ride but also lampoons Hollywood.This is something which was not accepted by audiences all over the world.French people are the only cinema audiences who appreciate such kind of cinema. This is the reason why such a flop American film has been lapped up by Gallic audiences.