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ALLEN AIMS TO PORTRAY YOUTH, BUT `ANYTHING ELSE' IS TOO TIRED

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20030919
Author:Wesley Morris, Globe Staff

In Woody Allen's "Anything Else," Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci play Jerry and Amanda, an on-again-off-again New York couple whose bond is sealed by a mutual interest in older culture - the classics, if you will: Billie Holiday and Edna St. Vincent Millay. They pay a visit to the Village Vanguard to see Diana Krall, whose plaintive jazz singing moves Amanda to say that she's been, well, moved. Jerry, a neurotic comedy writer, is in analysis, and Amanda still uses a diaphragm.

They're only about 23, but they're antiques, and "Anything Else" is a consignment shop of a movie. Allen has always ...

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