Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Robert J. Maxwell It's an engaging modest comedy of mixed affections that owes a lot to some of Woody Allen's works like "Hannah and Her Sisters." It redintegrates certain scenes from "Shampoo" as well. This is more amusing than either of the others because it isn't deep. It's not reaching for anything but laughs and while it's not a comic masterpiece it's playful and fun.Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton are in the midst of a divorce, arguing with their lawyer over artifacts of moment -- like who gets the mortar and who gets the pestle. Meanwhile Beatty has a gaggle of beautiful girl friends around him, trying desperately to juggle his appointments so they don't meet. Funny bits are added by supporting players like the constantly befuddled Larry Shandling.The humor isn't always sophisticated. One scene has Beatty running around a house trying to zip up his pants while the husband scratches his head over the little things that just don't seem right in his home. If Feydeau could have done it, he probably would have.It's fast and colorful -- and those girl friends really ARE knockouts. I enjoy most of it.

Python Hyena Town and Country (2001): Dir: Peter Chelsom / Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Gary Shandling, Goldie Hawn, Nastassja Kinski: Misfire comedy about the life that those around us can see and the life that we hide. Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton have been married for twenty-five years. Their friends played by Gary Shandling and Goldie Hawn are getting a divorce because he was caught cheating. What she doesn't know is that he is gay. Central plot regards Beatty's affair with Hawn and the predictable clichés to follow. Director Peter Chelsom previously made The Mighty but here he does a half wit job. The climax has everyone at the same convention where Shandling beams out that he's gay. Beatty actually passes here as he goes from devoted husband to secretive lover. After he ends his affair with Hawn he becomes involved with a young cello player. Keaton is basically the wife absent minded to her husband's antics. Shandling is a complete miscast because his brand of humour doesn't fit with his co-stars thus coming off as overkill. Hawn steals her moments as she suspects her husband having an affair all the while involved in one herself. Nastassja Kinski shows up to be involved in an affair with Beatty. Theme of struggling marriages works but the story is slow with humour that renders it a repulsive farce. Locations are top notch but screenplay is not. Score: 5 / 10

moonspinner55 Warren Beatty as a stumbling, bumbling, unfaithful husband--a well-to-do architect who can't even climb onto a roof without falling off. Married to fabric designer Diane Keaton for 25 years, Beatty has a fling with his best friend's soon-to-be ex-wife while carrying on a breezy affair with a pretty cellist. While on a fishing vacation with buddy Garry Shandling, he comes close to sleeping with two other eccentric females out for a good time. Though co-written by crack comedy vet Buck Henry, "Town & Country" is slow and stupid. The skittering sort of geniality which comes with watching an all-star cast in a big-budget production is enough to hold interest for awhile, but the characters don't take shape and the jokes never materialize. The sub-plot with flirtatious Andie MacDowell bringing Beatty home to meet her bombastic parents is bad enough to stop the picture dead in its tracks, and it really never recovers from this gaping pothole. Shandling does some nice underplaying, Goldie Hawn is attractive, and Beatty has one or two amusing moments of comic confusion. Otherwise, this troubled concoction sinks like a ship of fools. *1/2 from ****

ldavis-2 Saw this twice yesterday on IFC. Who knew a $90 million budget qualified as an independent? The roads and schools and hospitals and fresh water systems $90 million could have built in some third-world country, these bozos decided that $90 million would be better spent on this stinker!The characters are selfish or self-absorbed or sex-crazed or just plain nuts! And like the rotten cherry on top, Charlton Heston is a gun-toting wacko who has a less-than healthy relationship with his "Buttons".For a film supposedly about the consequences of infidelity, it wimps out. Alex cheerfully tells Porter she's preggers, then cheerfully reveals he isn't the daddy. Such jaw-dropping stupidity makes you question your faith in humanity.No doubt, Warren Beatty snared ex-paramours Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn so his massive ego could justify hooking up with women young enough to be his grand-daughters, then hired Peter Chelsom because Alan Smithee was unavailable. With "friends" like Shirley's baby bro, you don't need any enemies!