saltycedar This movie is not only boring but also has the icky, makes you wanna barf kinda HUGE age gap between the couple.. I think it's only fit for Woody Allen. I really find this so bald when you married your girlfriends adopted child and while everyone talks about you're a child molester.. Guy has the nerve.. Sorry but we are in 2010's and maybe your children is so brainwashed and to be able to get married to you with this age gap, no self assured woman has this kinda age gap in her romantic life.. How can the audience find them attractive together he is like her father?! The only reason I watched this because I wanted to watch Emma Stone but now I'm not sure that I wanna watch her anymore..

patrick powell Oh dear, where to start? The plot, the acting, the direction, the dialogue, the characters? All of them are so utterly two-dimensional that quite soon watching Magic In The Moonlight becomes a chore. And whatever the film, whether comedy, tragedy, art-house, slapstick, watching it should never become a chore, whatever else it might be. And sadly as the man who came up with the plot, wrote the dialogue and directed the actors Woody Allen must take sole responsibility.I have seen several Woody Allen films, but too few to pass judgment on his career - as in whether or not he has lost his touch - but one thing I can suggest is that perhaps his films don't ever come alive if he isn't in them. Certainly he was in all the other films of his I've seen and none - though they are certainly from the earlier years of his career - dragged so limply as this Magic In The Moonlight.The plot: well, on paper it can neither be praised or damned. There's the old saying that it isn't the joke, but the way you tell it. So I'm quite prepared to accept that another director (perhaps one who isn't content to point his camera at stagey set pieces and have done with it - the only movement is a tracking shot, but that's it) might well have done something with what is otherwise a pedestrian plot.As for the acting, well, a the end of the day and with few exceptions actors are only as good as the direction they get and the material they have to work with. And here they are horribly short-changed. Wooden and stereotyped don't even begin to describe what we see. The same is true of the dialogue: to be blunt it is awful.Wit? There's none, though there are lines which I assume Allen thought might makes us chortle. In truth they are little more than a hack writer's pastiche of Oscar Wilde.I must confess that I am writing this halfway through watching the film, mainly to take a break from it. I shall go back to watching it - I shall, I promise - and perhaps somehow the whole sorry film will redeem itself. But I'm not holding my breath.Perhaps Allen has reached the stage where no producer dare tell him what he has written and how he is directing is mediocre. Well, if that's the case, I hope he reads this review. The whole thing is embarrassingly lame. There, Woody, I've said it. Sad, but true.

myfacebookeeemail This film is despicable. The films MESSAGE needs to be unmasked, not Emma Stone's character. (Pardon me while I roll up my sleeves and rant.) Anybody who groups faith and religion with cheap stage tricks and fraud is morally backwards and lacks a backbone. Bunch of idiots... Woody Allen is an absolute dunce. If society has degraded to this junk, we do have a problem. Can anyone create a clean, decent movie anymore? Oh, this film is clever. Gently this film beguiles the audience into comparing faith with disappearing elephants and prayers with séances, insinuating that faith in God is nothing more than the effects of a frenzied mind, that it's a form of pleasant self-deception, the "opiate of the people" as Marx called it. This film is nothing more than one of Sophie's tricks, deceitful, full of angles with a hollow core.

gridoon2018 Woody Allen continues his tradition of presenting philosophical, existential filmic essays in the guise of a light romantic comedy. "Magic In The Moonlight" deals with themes as heavy and profound as they get: is there more to our universe than meets the eye? Do we need magic to give meaning to our lives? Is it better to be happy with your delusions or unhappy with the truth? Is there any room for logic in love? You have to admire Allen for even bringing up these topics - no other contemporary American director does, to my knowledge at least. The film is beautifully produced, but there is a definite air of familiarity to it - extending to its soundtrack selections. And although Colin Firth and Emma Stone play their characters well, their age difference as a romantic couple is just too big to overlook. You might say the film succeeds in its higher goals (a philosophical study) and fails in the easier ones (a romantic comedy). **1/2 out of 4.