The main plot is about a rich, enlarged NY family, mum Steffi (Goldie Hawn), step-dad Bob (Alda) and several children from various previous marriages, inclusive of DJ who narrates the story and Skylar whose impending wedding with Holden gets the action in motion.
Allen plays Joe, Goldie's divorce husband and DJ father, currently living in Paris and taking his daughter to a lavish holiday in Venice. During the course of the action from spring in NY to Christmas in Paris, most of the characters fall in and out and love and sing their joys and miseries when their affairs don't work out.
The most unlikely affair is the one between Joe and Von (Julia Roberts), slightly believable only because Joe knows everything about Von thanks to DJ spying Von's sessions with her shrink.
Possibly one of the most lighthearted Allen's movies, this is an unusual musical because the musical numbers are mostly quirky, the quirkiest of them all taking place at the funeral home with blithe spirits singing and dancing. Allen makes excellent use of the change of season in the different locations, with NY in full bloom, Venice in summer and winter in Paris.
Allen plays Joe, Goldie's divorce husband and DJ father, currently living in Paris and taking his daughter to a lavish holiday in Venice. During the course of the action from spring in NY to Christmas in Paris, most of the characters fall in and out and love and sing their joys and miseries when their affairs don't work out.
The most unlikely affair is the one between Joe and Von (Julia Roberts), slightly believable only because Joe knows everything about Von thanks to DJ spying Von's sessions with her shrink.
Possibly one of the most lighthearted Allen's movies, this is an unusual musical because the musical numbers are mostly quirky, the quirkiest of them all taking place at the funeral home with blithe spirits singing and dancing. Allen makes excellent use of the change of season in the different locations, with NY in full bloom, Venice in summer and winter in Paris.