Scoop
by Woody Allen
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Actor: Alexander Armstrong, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, Scarlett Johansson, Woody AllenDirector: Woody Allen
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Scoop
DVD Review: WOODY ALLEN, A BEAUTIFUL GIRL, AND FUN MYSTERY
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the funniest serial killer mystery ever filmed. You will chuckle and laugh at Woody Allen who plays a magician that gets involved with a reporter want-to-be. It's a bit far fetched but that's part of the comedy charm of this one.
A dead reporter returns from the hereafter to tell the budding school journalist (played by Scarlett Johansson) about the biggest scoop in crime journalism. She picks up the story, with additional occasional help from the dead man and a Vaudevillian magician (Woody Allen).
The killer is a rich Londoner (played by Hugh Jackman)and a handsome guy so the young reporter falls in love with him, naturally, and becomes his lover. Woody Allen bungles his way through the girl reporter's scoop investigation pretending to be her father. Well, all that's the serious side of the film, all the rest is fast-paced comedy, perfect for Woody Allen. A delight to all Woody Allen fans.
Lots of laughs along with a mystery plot. What's not to like. Not blood, nudity, violence, and horror--just funny, great, fast entertainment. And at a reasonable price.
DVD Review: Nearly turned off the DVD player 40 minutes in
Summary: 1 Stars
I love the way Woody Allen has reinvented himself. I thought Match Point was very good and Vicky Cristina Barcelona was excellent. So I had high hopes for Scoop.
I watched it last night and almost turned off the movie halfway into it. Scarlett Johansson turns in possibly her worst performance. She is not a great actress by any means. But in this role she came across like an actor in her first college play. She is exposed as being very amateurish; it was embarrassing and somewhat uncomfortable to watch. Especially when contrasted with many of the seasoned and refined British (and Australian, in the case of Jackman) actors with whom she had scenes.
Woody Allen also decided to step out in front of the camera this time, in contrast to Match Point and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. He shouldn't have. His performance is anachronistic. And his stuttering, neurotic persona, which may have worked in the '70s, comes across as sad, lame and entirely out of place. At times the stuttering was so bad that it seemed either he forgot his lines or age had morphed his stammer into a pathological condition.
Again, love Woody's new direction but you can skip Scoop. Don't waste your time. Just wish I could get last evening back.
DVD Review: Bought it for $5, not disappointed!
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this movie! Woody Allen is a cute old man, and Hugh Jackman is a whole different kind of cute!!! DVD Review: A Mystery movie to see
Summary: 5 Stars
Woody Allen is absolutely hilarious and witty in the movie. The story line is intriguing and keeps your attention. A must see. DVD Review: Great movie that combines comedy and astute suspense!
Summary: 4 Stars
I found "Scoop" to be a very charming, amusing movie that simultaneously (and ingeniously) combines elements of comedy, suspense, and maturity of script and plot. This is a great film in the tradition of Woody Allen and an excellent way for a new generation to be introduced to his movies.
Scarlett Johanssen plays Sondra Pransky, a college student who pursues a career in journalism after foregoing her former ambition of becoming a dental hygienist. The movie contains a good deal of well-placed comments having to do with teeth and dental hygiene, which I personally found very cute and original (I mean, who doesn't like quirky comments about teeth)? She goes to a magic show where the great "Splendini" (Allen) has her help him with a magic trick. She enters a box where she encounters a deceased reporter who gives her a scoop on a well-to-do British man, Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman). The deceased reporter indicates that he believes Lyman to be the "Tarot card killer."
Sondra talks the great "Splendini" / Sid Waterman into helping her investigate Lyman, but in the process falls in love with him, and even though there is some mounting evidence against him, neither believes he is the killer. Hugh Jackman, I must say, is very charming in this movie. I would not believe that this adorable man with a British accent would be capable of killing anyone either. Of course, you must watch the movie yourself to find out whether this debonair man is a killer or not!
I therefore highly recommend this movie. You will be in suspense and second-guessing right up until the end. You really can't go wrong with a Woody Allen movie. Have a great day, everyone!
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Description of Scoop
Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman star in this hilariously twisted tale of murder and mystery. When an inquisitive college journalist (Johansson) stumbles upon new clues to a string of murders, her investigation leads directly to a handsome businessman (Jackman), who draws her in with his mysterious charm. Could a whirlwind romance with the subject of her search also become the most dangerous scoop of a lifetime? Experience the laughs in this witty new comedy that will have you guessing until the very end.Light and charming, Scoop blends murder, ghosts, and falling in love. While inside of a magician's magic cabinet, aspiring journalist Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation) is visiting by the ghost of a dead reporter (Ian McShane, Deadwood) who has gotten a hot tip in the afterlife: A rising young politician named Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman, X-Men) may be the notorious serial killer who leaves tarot cards by his victims. With the magician (writer-director Woody Allen) in tow, Sondra sneaks her way into Lyman's life--and, despite increasing evidence that the tip is true, finds herself falling in love with him. Scoop is stronger than Allen's last film, the overrated Match Point; moment to moment, scene to scene, it's his most zippy and entertaining movie in years. It still suffers from laziness--Allen seems unwilling to look at the plot's holes and find a way to sew them up--and Allen's own persona, with his now-rote comic stutterings and hesitations, drags on the film's momentum. Despite this, Scoop has flashes of suspense and wit that, in an unknown filmmaker, would be cause for celebration. Also featuring Charles Dance (White Mischief) and Romola Garai (I Capture the Castle), one of the few actresses who can compete with Johansson in lusciousness. --Bret Fetzer
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