Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

An Exercise In Nonsense

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

It's an engaging modest comedy of mixed affections that owes a lot to some of Woody Allen's works like "Hannah and Her Sisters." It redintegrates certain scenes from "Shampoo" as well. This is more amusing than either of the others because it isn't deep. It's not reaching for anything but laughs and while it's not a comic masterpiece it's playful and fun.Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton are in the midst of a divorce, arguing with their lawyer over artifacts of moment -- like who gets the mortar and who gets the pestle. Meanwhile Beatty has a gaggle of beautiful girl friends around him, trying desperately to juggle his appointments so they don't meet. Funny bits are added by supporting players like the constantly befuddled Larry Shandling.The humor isn't always sophisticated. One scene has Beatty running around a house trying to zip up his pants while the husband scratches his head over the little things that just don't seem right in his home. If Feydeau could have done it, he probably would have.It's fast and colorful -- and those girl friends really ARE knockouts. I enjoy most of it.

Picked this thing up at the library, a CD, free, no rental fees (thank God). I'd just "watched" another movie on one computer while working on another, the movie even if intended as background noise catching my attention, my work finally lain aside as I realized the movie was absolutely delightful. I then slipped Town and Country into the CD drive of my background noise computer, got back to work for a few minutes, wasn't quite certain why the sensation crawling up and down my skin was something like finger nails drawn across a chalk board, finally realized that Town and County in my background noise computer was screeching and prickling to extremes I couldn't previously have imagined possible.

This is actually a very cute and amusing movie. I had not heard of it, and had no interest initially when I stopped channel surfing to check it out. Ended up renting and thoroughly enjoying it. This movie is every bit as good as "Something's Got To Give", or the best of Woody Allen's sophisticated comedies about the relationships of New Yorkers. The characters are well-developed, engaging, funny and plausible. As to the many unfavorable reviews, I don't get it, or maybe it's just that they don't.... My guess is that the cast didn't camp it up enough for their tastes, as the script never steps over the line into absurd (see "Royal Tannenbaums"). Anyway, give it a chance, you may be pleasantly surprised! I was

Incredibly bad comedy. Happily married couple Porter (Warren Beatty) and Ellie (Diane Keaton) are shocked to find out that a friend of theirs called Griffin (Garry Shandling!) is cheating on his wife (Goldie Hawn). This gets Porter to start thinking about cheating on HIS wife with a beautiful musician (Nastassia Kinski).Abysmal. This movie took three YEARS to make before it was even released. It was plagued by infighting, re shoots, rewrites and clashing star egos. Beatty has gotten most of the blame for trying to control everything. All of this fighting shows up on the screen unfortunately. The script lurches all over the place veering wildly from scene to scene. Sometimes it tries to play like a sophisticated comedy--other times it plays slapstick so broad that the Three Stooges would be embarrassed (was putting Beatty in a polar bear costume supposed to be funny?). None of the jokes are funny--not one! I didn't even smile once let alone laugh. Also we have some talented actors like Jenna Elfman and Andie MacDowell doing some of the worst comedic bits I've ever seen. I'm still waiting to find out how MacDowell and her dolls were supposed to be funny. Then we have Josh Harnett (billed here as "Joshua") giving another bad performance and Charlton Heston completely humiliating himself.This gets a 2 because most of the cast really tries. Shandling is bad but Keaton and Hawn are just great and Beatty is somewhat amusing (seeing him doing comedy is--interesting). Also Kinski is just great in her small role. For them I give this a 2 but this seriously can be safely skipped. ALMOST worth seeing to see how bad a comedy can truly be.