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Release Date: Aug 24, 2001; Rated: PG-13; Length: 103 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Woody Allen and Helen Hunt
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Woody Allen's latest is a boutique trifle that wears its confectionary ''smallness'' on its lapel. Set in 1940, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, which fuses hypnosis, thievery, and romance, stars Allen as CW, a hard-boiled insurance investigator, and Helen Hunt as Betty Ann, a beautiful efficiency expert. When these two engage in flirtatious, ''His Girl Friday''-style spitball comedy, all we see is a couple of characters who look as if they truly hate each other. Allen, at 65, is too old and wizened to be playing a shlub who can still win Helen Hunt's heart. His CW is meant to be a scruffy charmer, but it's no accident that it takes a hypnotist to bring these two together.
Posted Jun 08, 2001
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