Details Movie Rated: PG; Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy; With: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and Louise Lasser

Bananas/Love and Death isn't the ideal early-career double bill, but who can kvetch at two Woody Allen comedies on laser for only $20 each? Nearly every key punch line gets its own ''chapter stop,'' letting you skip right to favorite gags. It's a feature more useful in Bananas, where some uninspired scenes dilute an otherwise uproarious send-up of Latin American politics, than in Love and Death, a consistently hilarious parody of Tolstoy and Bergman that shows Allen and Diane Keaton at their most radiantly infatuated. A-

Originally posted Jan 31, 1992 Published in issue #103 Jan 31, 1992 Order article reprints

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