DVD | Melinda & Melinda

M&M is an interesting concept; how one story can be interoperated in two different ways, either as a comedy or as a tragedy.

Sadly however, even with such an interesting premise, Woody Allen fails to deliver. The movie is a mess of inconsistency and stilted, pretentious acting. For the concept to really have worked, both storylines needed to be the same, with possibly slightly different outcomes. But what we get is two almost completely different stories with similarities.

And with Will Farrell being the lead in the comedy story you would expect to laugh more than a couple of times, but this is not the case.

A great concept poorly realised.