  Whatever Worksa.k.a. “Tudo Pode dar Certo”MPAA Rating:
 for sexual situations including dialogue, brief nude images and thematic material._____
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:
Adults
Genre:
Romance, Comedy
Length:
1 hr. 32 min.
Year of Release:
2009
USA Release:
June 19, 2009
DVD: October 27, 2009   
Relevant Issues
SUICIDAL—What does the Bible say? Answer
How can we know there’s a God? Answer What if the cosmos is all that there is? Answer
Producer’s Synopsis: “An eccentric New Yorker (Larry David) abandons his upper class life to lead a more bohemian existence. He meets a young girl from the South and her family and no two people seem to get along in the entanglements that follow.”
Volunteer reviewer needed for this movie—Request this assignment See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.   Movie Critics
…A one-note Larry David curbs any enthusiasm for Allen’s ‘Works’… He’s a nihilist [a person who believes human existence has no objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value], a fatalist—“on the whole we’re a failed species”—and, deep in the Woody grain, an anhedonist who can’t enjoy the extended pleasure of a young woman’s company.… the movie on the whole is joyless. “Whatever Works” doesn’t. …one of the least engaging movies ever by the prolific Allen… …WHATEVER WORKS is perhaps Woody Allen’s meanest, most self-righteous and most politically correct movie. It’s also his most Anti-Christian movie, in the sense of being his most hateful movie. As such, it deserves comparison to the Anti-Semitic rants that Hitler’s National Socialists use to make. Allen has always shown himself to be a typical myopic, muddle-headed New York liberal. This movie cements his reputation as a liberal, lamebrain loon.… …“Whatever Works” isn’t a good Woody Allen movie, even by latter-day standards. It is, however, a surprisingly offensive Woody Allen movie, inviting us, as it does, to sneer at benighted Southerners, idiot Christians, stupid kids and their hard-rock music—anything, in short, that wouldn’t pass muster among the preening Big Apple sophisticates of whom the director is a longtime laureate.… …takes the disconcerting form of a disquisition on quantum physics, love and chance, ranted directly to the camera by terminally misanthropic Larry David. Though stuffed with witty one-liners and wondrously convoluted tirades, this far-fetched, deliberately artificial game of musical chairs—in which mismatched characters encircle, attract and repel each other—feels forced, often losing itself in excess verbiage.… |
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