In 'Wonder Wheel,' Woody Allen's latest, the characters are too thinly drawn
A fresh Woody Allen movie arrives practically every year like clockwork. Some are good – most are middling. Being prolific isn’t a crime, but with Allen, what you often get are retreads dolled up to look brand-new.
“Wonder Wheel” is set in Brooklyn’s Coney Island amusement park in the late 1950s, and so one might expect it to be more “personal” tocolored, eye-popping fantasia. From a purely thematic standpoint, this “look” makes little sense, but it sure is nice to gaze upon. It takes one’s mind off the theatrics, which are often less than galvanizing.
