he knows and he did it on purpose he lives vicariously through the characters at his age he doesnt give a crap what people think and knows some people will buy his stuff anyway i agree hes pathetic but he doesnt care

I agree that Woody Allen marrying his stepdaughter is a huge boundary issue. When he makes a movie about a guy who does this, I'm ready to get squicked out.

I haven't seen this movie and don't intend to, but if the only issue is age difference and everybody's above 18 and consenting, the thrust of this review seems judgmental and off-base.

Many age-difference relationships involve power imbalances and unfairness. So do many standard-issue relationships. We're never free of the need to examine, to be on guard.

I've been in a couple September-April relationships to the benefit of all involved. Patience, lack of possessiveness, great conversation, and amazing sex form a partial list. There are occasional drawbacks and points of negotiation, but what relationship doesn't have those? I've spent enough time in relationships to not be afraid of them, to be proactive about them even.

So yeah, my partner and I are sorry that our otherwise-wonderful relationship--a type of relationship that too many people pass over without consideration or worse, automatically pass judgment on without reflection--makes you so uncomfortable that you can't stand to see its analog in a movie without grimacing and pointing fingers.

We also wonder what your reaction would be if the film starred Susan Sarandon with a younger guy. That cool with you? How about other types of non-standard relationships, like a same-sex couple or a person going through gender transition DARING to find love and fulfillment. Would it be totally offensive and icky to make a movie without spending time explaining to the audience that yes, we KNOW this is icky and we're SO SORRY to put this in front of you? Please bear with these poor, mutant characters because the very idea of doing something different than the norm (EWWWWWW!) turns this from a light romance into a horror film. And please, go ahead and paint everyone outside of the box as abnormal and try to find bent psychological explanations for why they exist and why the director (who must be bent himself) would ever put them on film.

none of us *exists* in a vacuum.

agreed w jeejee also older guy much younger girl is part of the sexism that says guys dont lose their attractiveness on aging but women do and connects to the vanity of male hollywood directors that like to think of themselves as still hot enough to attract younger girls its not rebellious to portray this coupling because its part of the established sexist bias in hollywood and even more so when its allen, older women, same sex , transgender etc dont get portrayed as much because they truly go against the bias of hollywood, the problem with this movie is it repeats the bias and exacerbates it because allen is involved, criticizing this aspect of the movie is not an attack on all may sept rels because again it does not occur in a vacuum

Was the movie any good or not?

Allen (as if anyone doesn't know by this point or it even bears mentioning given that the sol long ago ran out) was accused of violating his very young adopted daughter more than two decades.

But as others noted this movies involves a relationship between consenting adults. The fact that one of them is more than twice the age of the other may be a point of note but why is it especially distasteful, or so distasteful as to hog the whole freakin review. It's the same thing over at the Weekly. This is just taking the whole discourse of equality thing to a pathological, demagogic, hard-to-believe-it's-intellectually-honest extreme. Man if you're fifty-something and you can get that (male or female) good for you.

Sadly, I'm going to guess the movie probably sucks because just about all of Allen's movies post-divorce (minus Deconstructing Harry and Match Point) pretty much suck.

#9, Don't forget pretentious! Oh wait, that's you.

I mean, 10. Sorry, #9. You're too literal to be a poet.

How these leering hypocrites would choke on their own aged bile if the sex and gender of the characters were reversed.