Woody Allen is at the helm of this comedy in which he stars and also wrote. He plays a nebish, what a surprise, who fancies himself a criminal mastermind and plans a bank heist with his dopey pals. Tracey Ullman plays his wife who dreams of someday joining the sophisticated lifestyle of royalty. The laughs, sadly, are just not there as Allen seemingly abandons his heist plot entirely partway through to explore the comedic possibilities of Ullman's vain attempts to achieve her goal of joining high society. Meanwhile, Woody just wants his life back to normal once they have struck it rich. The film seems disjointed as if Allen ran out of ideas for one story and simply combined it with another. It is certainly one of Allen's lesser films as this viewer found himself forcing himself to try to laugh at Woody for the first time ever.
Review of Small Time Crooks
