Celebrity (Widescreen)

I don't know where to begin. This story, if you can call it that, was a messy hodge-podge. Sure, all actors considered are very talented, but their characters were not at all engaging and their respective plots were big empty holes.

Celebtity presents itself as a case study of celebrity life: the kind of life a celebrity leads and how a culture regards that celebrated personality. But the movie never does it. All it does it hop from one soap opera lilly pad to another with little unification.

The only part of the movie that upholds that promise is when Branaugh, a jabbering brainiac trying to get his screenplay off the ground, follows DiCaprio around Vegas, an arrogant teen movie star with a bad temper, trying to get him to look at his movie script. Only then does the word celebrity come to mind successfully. But this interaction is cut short as Branaugh flies back to NYC to do something, I don't even remember what.

Another part of the movie that made me grin was when Branaugh's soon to be live-in girlfriend realizes that he wants another woman. She takes the only copy of his manuscript, some book he was writing, and threw it out into the bay. That was priceless.

The rest though, is disposable. It's really hard to believe that this script came from the same guy who gave us Manhattan.

THE BEST: Without a doubt, Charlize Theron, Winona Ryder, Famke Janssen and Melanie Griffith are the best of the movie, all of them are beautiful women and make their scenes in "Celebrity" more interesting than they would have been without those gorgeous actresses.

Some of the dialogues in the Leonardo DiCaprio segments are funny and original. There are a lot of interesting cameos. The black & white photography gives personality to the film, in an era packed of explosions and computer generated special effects, is always interesting to see a black & white movie.

THE WORST: Without a doubt, the worst in the movie is the Kenneth Branagh character, he is a great actor, but in this movie he makes an increasingly irritating Woody Allen imitation. When the real Woody Allen is the central character, his voice, attitude and physic translate into a funny character, but when someone else does a cheap imitation, the central character becomes pathetic. A lot of the scenes and situations are very, very boring and pointless.

"Celebrity" is one of the less interesting movies of Woody Allen, it just feels too familiar, repetitive and boring.