Movie on DVD Review

Whatever Works

Reviewed by | Oct 14, 2009
Whatever Works, Larry David | WORKS FOR HIM Larry David takes a bathrobe break in Whatever Works
WORKS FOR HIM Larry David takes a bathrobe break in Whatever Works
EW's GRADE
C+

Details Movie Rated: PG-13; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Patricia Clarkson and Larry David

Every joke and plot twist in Whatever Works, Woody 
 Allen's latest assembly-line comedy, is so familiar, it should've been called Whatever Worked Already. Left Coast misanthrope Larry David plays a cranky physicist in New York City who teaches his dim worldview to a sweet and naive Mississippi runaway (that's Evan Rachel Wood behind the crawfish-pageant twang). David is funny 
 (although I didn't need to see his scrawny chicken legs in shorts), but the whole dizzy movie is like a subpar Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, albeit one written with a bigger thesaurus. EXTRAS Zilch, unless you count the trailer. C+

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Originally posted Oct 14, 2009 Published in issue #1072 Oct 23, 2009 Order article reprints
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