The Movie: Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You is a quirky and fun movie with a big ensemble cast featuring (of course) Woody Allen, Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Alan Ada, Tim Roth, Drew Barrymore and Edward Norton. Natalie Portman also played a small role (Natalie and Drew in the same movie? I must be dreaming!). This movie follows a number if related story lines by following the members of a wealthy, but dysfunctional family on their individual pursuits for love. Although the songs are cheesy at times (ok, most of the time), this movie is full of Woody Allen's kooky sense of humor, and it's definitely good for a few laughs. There's also a really cool dance number with Woody Allen and Goldie Hawn with some interesting special effects (although I'm pretty sure that was a double performing for Hawn).

The opening shot of this movie shows Edward Norton dorkily crooning to Drew Barrymore, and I couldn't help but be amazed at just how far away this role is from Norton's role in American History X... Anyway, I found Everyone Says I Love You a corny, but quite fun and entertaining movie that I can just imagine lots of people hating. It reminds me a bit of The Royal Tenenbaums, but with singing and a slightly less neurotic family.

The DVD: This is a pretty horrible DVD. The grainy video transfer is quite drab, with poor contrast, and an excessive amount of edge sharpening which is quite visible (even distracting) in a number of shots, particularly ones showing trees and leaves (and there are a few). Of course, that was done in order to counteract an overall lack of clarity, but you know, you can't really add detail that isn't there.

The audio was not any better. The 2.0 mix is plain stereo with no Pro-Logic surround mix, limited dynamic range and murky sound. There are no special features to speak of (not even a trailer, only "Film Recommendations"). This DVD is only good for seeing the movie, and even then, it's not particularly good at that.