Deconstructing Harry . Tucson Weekly . 01-12-98

Deconstructing Harry

DIRECTED BY: Woody Allen

REVIEWED: 01-12-98

Woody Allen trundles out the old themes of love, relationships, blow jobs and creative work with lousy results. Allen's character Harry (whom he constructs, by the way, not deconstructs), is a philandering, irresponsible, whining, famous novelist. He's so emotionally empty and thoroughly unlikable that it's almost impossible to be amused by his antics--which include goofball stunts like kidnapping his son and cheating on his wife. Harry, the owner of a thoroughly opaque charm, somehow manages to seduce a bevy of fresh-faced beauties; when he's not doing it himself, his characters are acting out his fantasies for him in little vignettes meant to represent the stories Harry Block is writing. There are occasionally spikes of funniness--Billy Crystal is wonderfully smooth as the devil--but overall, Deconstructing Harry is flat and clunky, if not honestly creepy.

--Richter

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