Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Woody Allen went the documentary (ish) route, again, with his 1992 film Husbands and WIves. The film follows a married couple's deterioration after their married friends decide to separate. By telling the story in documentary format with a hand-held camera with a lot of movement and close-up shots, the audience is completely immersed in the story, almost like voyeurs as we see a marriage crumble apart. Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis) break some tough news to their friends Gabe (Woody Allen) and Judy (Mia Farrow) that they will be separating. Judy and Sally are quite nonchalant while delivering the news but Gabe and Judy are devastated. Gabe remarks that theirs is a marriage benchmark as he only thinks of them as "Jack and Sally". Judy is completely devastated even retiring to her bedroom in a dither over hearing the news. Gabe and Judy console themselves and each other as Jack and Sally go on to see other people. The news changes them, as well, however. Gabe and Judy both begin to question aspects of their life and relationship and start to believe that they may not be as happy in their marriage as they've grown comfortable believing. Gabe starts succumbing to the admiration of one of his female students and Judy realizes she is attracted to another man. What began as a series of changes in the lives of Jack and Sally has delivered life- changing impact for Gabe and Judy.I love the documentary style Woody used for husbands and Wives. I've heard many criticize it, yet, I think it's perfect to convey the intimate emotions dealt with in the film. I especially enjoy how real Woody depicts human emotions in this film. Who hasn't recovered from a breakup when one moment you are whole, moving on, and living your life when all of a sudden you get a nagging thought in your head that you just can't shake and you become a mix of anger and desperation in an instant? That's exactly what Woody showed in the scene in which Sally was in the apartment of a man she was to go on a date with but she couldn't shake the news that Jack had moved someone in his home just three weeks after their separation. That scene, as gut-wrenching as it was, was my favorite because it was so real. That really is how emotions work, they are wild and unpredictable, quickly changing based on new information. Husbands and Wives was a truly human film with rich touches of Woody Allen (another Bergman reference and a comment from Woody about walking in Paris in the rain) definitely a stand out in the excellent filmography of Woody Allen.

Woody manages to bring to the viewer the truth between marriages that is not filmed. He gives us the fly's point of view we would like to be am some occasions. The film behind the nostalgia of the 90s. Love is treated with care that makes me rethink attitudes of today . The rich dialogs are one combination of talent and performance of great actors chosen for the film. The cinema needs more realism, like in that movie. Realistic conversations are essential for people to feel the real emotion in film director. Husbands and wives is one example. It's great to see Woody Allen films of that era . We are transported to the era of good treatment between people in a relationship. In a world where we are controlled by cellular and lack of subject, the script becomes very rich in subjects to discuss on the sofa.

Review: This is yet another movie about troubled relationships by Woody Allen, with a New York backdrop. It's about 2 couples who are questioning there marriages and wonder if they could find happiness with another partner. Personally,  got bored after a while and it seemed like the movie wasn't going anywhere. Although the movie is classed as a light comedy, I found it to be more of a emotional drama with Woody Allen babbling all the way through. I find it amazing that one director can make so many movies about the same subject without changing them in the slightest. Anyway, it's a watchable movie which has some average performances by the actors, but it's my nothing amazing. Average!Round-Up: After watching Liam Neeson kicking butt in his movies lately, it's weird seeing him in a dramatic comedy, looking so young. He obviously wasn't comfortable with this genre, although he was good in Love Actually, but since then he just seems to stick to voice overs and action movies. As for Woody Allen he just seems to act the same in all of his romantic comedies so his performance wasn't that surprising. On the plus side, I do rate him for acting and writing most of his projects because it must be hard to direct yourself. I think my problem is that I'm watching these Woody Allen movies back to back because they all seem really similar.Budget: $20million Domestic Gross: $11millionI recommend this movie to people who are into there Woody Allen movies which are mostly about troubled relationships and affairs. 4/10

Apologetically Woody Allen and I went to the very same High school with a 15 year difference I must say another Woody Allen Celebration of the once great liberal Corporate capitalist society's middle class lifestyle and the objectification the human experiences of sex and living.Sorry I am not the biggest of fans though respectfully one can suppose they should be grateful for subject matter that would be better detailed in a book rather than in the shorthand form of popular film and cinema in what is not always relevant to everyone. Woody Allen films though of a interesting nature and good quality seemingly often presents a one sided view of what is essentially existential liberal and intellectual as if his life revolves around what exists in a Cocoon. These films are not Robert De Niro Raging Bull. Woody Allen perhaps Woody Allen closest to Dustin Hoffman in many ways is distinguished as even more insular where I would wish he broke out of his mold that is unique to him as a stylized artist who seems to have stopped expanding beyond what he has already done in his career.This title Husbands and Wives lives up to its title but it fails to expand beyond that subject matter 26 minutes into the film in its predictable formulaic nature which though thoughtful and provocative in that sense neither present entertainment nor any intellectual breakthrough in the sphere of the middle class life style.I want and demand significance and though this film is interesting but in that it fails to provide what "I want and demand significance" I am disappointed. This is not the three stooges nor peter Boyle. This is exclusively Woody Allen where I presume his productions are the products of his cloistered environment which means nothing to me except the world is pathetically mundane which would need to produce the dynamics of the working and under classes if there was no "working and under classes" that are sorely lacking in Woody Allen films.So 35 minutes into the film and I am still bored as the dynamics are insular subjective of a personal nature that seems to be lacking a social element similar in nature to Jane Austen but lacking the blunt social dynamics life is so full of.