Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

roystephen-81252 To me, Woody Allen is at his best when he makes us laugh and cry at the same time. When I first saw this film in the movie theatre, I found it thoroughly entertaining, but more in the same vein as his "early funny ones" than his later, deeper work (Crimes & Misdemeanors, Husbands & Wives and the like). Upon repeated viewing, though, I realised I had been wrong. It is light-hearted and funny on the surface, but much much deeper than it first seems. It has really grown on me since and has become one of my favourites. The cast are all superb, from Tracey Ullman to Hugh Grant, even Woody gives one of his best performances of his career. Highly recommended for both fans of Woody's funny ones and of his more serious dramas.

bkoganbing Woody Allen and Tracey Ullman play a husband and wife team in Small Time Crooks who hit the big time, but purely by accident. Allen who is as the title says, a small time crook who has done small time in the joint and has collected a gang of misfits just like him. Probably he saw the famous Edward G. Robinson classic Larceny, Inc. where Robinson and his associates buy a luggage store because of its location next to a bank where the plan is to tunnel from the store basement into the bank and rob it. Naturally Allen claims this as his original scheme.But to do that Allen has to have a business and that's where his bimbo of a wife Tracey Ullman comes in. She has one talent, she bakes some really out of this world cookies, cookies that Famous Amos would envy. They catch on and even when a cop catches Allen and his crew breaking into the bank he wants in on the business, the cookie business.But these rather unsophisticated Small Time Crooks who are all of a sudden fabulously wealthy find that it doesn't wear well on them. Both Allen and Ullman become targets of all kinds of big time crooks. Ullman has this lizard of an art dealer/gigolo played by Hugh Grant putting the moves on her. As she is the one with the recipe for the cookies, the money is all in her name. Woody in the meantime finds a sympathetic ear in Elaine May.As Small Time Crooks was getting started I thought I was watching a remake of Larceny, Inc. I thought I was watching a remake. But Woody Allen took it way beyond what Warner Brothers had in mind for that 1942 film. He and Ullman are a perfectly matched pair and in a weird way they show that money might buy happiness, but happiness means different things to different people.It's not Allen's best effort, but Small Time Crooks will definitely find an audience. It sure did with me.

leonblackwood Review: This is an average movie by Woody Allen which I didn't really find that funny. In many ways I found it more annoying than anything because the storyline was ridiculous Woody Allen is babbling on about rubbish all the way through the film. Tracey Ullman clearly saved the movie as the rich wife of Woody Allen whose attracted to the stuck up Hugh Grant, but when she loses all of her money she soon finds out that Grant was only interested in her cash. I found this movie weak and uninteresting because of its far fetched concept, but it's harmless fun if you want a movie without much depth. Average!Round-Up: This is yet another movie from Allen which I struggled to stay awake through. It's Allen's basic rambling that gets on my nerves in some of his films and his unnecessary million words per minute. I have noticed that he directs other actors much better than he directs himself, which makes his films a bit hard to enjoy because he is in most of his movies and he gets most of the screen time. When I have finished watching all of his films that are on my rental list, I will be able to make a better overall verdict about the writer/producer/director, but at this precise moment, I'm in 2 minds about his work. He is definitely unique and original, but the question is still out there if it's in a good or bad way.Budget: $25million Worldwide Gross: $30millionI recommend this movie to people who are into there Woody Allen movies about a couple who plan to rob a bank but end up making there fortune from selling cookies. 3/10

LeonLouisRicci The great Writer/Director/Star seems a little tired in his new attempt at a more accessible mode of slapstick ala his early movies. The cerebral comedy takes a vacation and this romp is indicative of whimsical rather than witty Woody.It somewhat works and the creative ability of the cast, as well as a half-awake Allen, deliver an easy essay on wealth and want. There are a number of laughs and it all is a rather unusual piece of fluff from a talent that more times than not stimulates the head-bone as much as the funny-bone.Compared to his other gems this one is not made of glass, but admittedly, while not a fugazi, is far from the precious piece of treasure that one normally expects from the "prophet of the misanthropes".