A jazz reworking of the three little pigs tale. The Three Little Pigs are musicians and the Wolf blows a hot trumpet. The music was composed and played by Shorty Rogers.

Woody Allen is a great filmmaker. This is the thirty-first time he has taken the directorial helm and, especially now in his twilight years (sorry mum and dad), he is managing to stammer out almost a movie a year. He started his career as a scriptwriter and stand-up comedian in the 60s and has quickly, over 40 years, carved himself out a Hollywood niche, holding a monopoly on Woody Allen movies.

Kenneth Branagh takes up the role of Woody Allen as the frumpy, neurotic, unaccomplished and ultimately unpleasant writer/journalist, whose life and loves form the centre of the movie. He is joined by Judy Davis as his equally neurotic ex-wife, Winona Ryder as a young actress, various super-models and that Leonardo guy from What's Eating Gilbert Grape as a young Bratty star at the height of his fame.

To give a plot line, I would say that it revolves around Branagh, who floats around the rich and famous of Hollywood as he tries to sell his script and his novel, while his ex-wife Robin tries to find happiness with a TV producer (***Montegna).

Judged against other movies, Celebrity rates higher than it does when judged against Woody Allen movies. I highly recommend this movie as it has everything a Woody Allen movie should have: great ensemble work, witty and intelligent writing, amusing set-pieces, excellent photography and oral sex with bananas. This said, it is not his best-both Everyone Says I Love You and Deconstructing Harry being recent examples of movies that more suit the Woody Allen style.