Having tantalised us for years with a mixture of fun and angst, Woody Allen (who directs but doesn't appear) now seems to have settled for one part fun to four parts tedium. Kenneth Branagh has the Woody role (as a writer) and goes for a full, fast-talking Woody impersonation. It might have been better with a 40-year-old Woody but not much: few will have any sympathy or patience with this character as he ditches a string of nice women in search of the unobtainable. His ditzy first wife (Judy Davis), on the other hand, falls on her feet, gets a lucky TV interviewing career and deserves it. Their story runs like a string of sketches that occasionally make you laugh, but largely just slip by with minimal effect. An episode in which Davis learns about oral sex from a hooker, for example, is always distasteful rather than funny. Leonardo DiCaprio and Winona Ryder have two of many cameo roles.