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In 1973, health food store owner Miles Munroe enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operating table, Miles' sister requests permission to cryogenically freez...( read more 
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MCT:August 21, 2008
Kind of a funny movie but the chemistry between Diane Keaton and Woodly Allen was hilarious. I didn't mind watching those two work together. There were times when this movie would drag a bit, but it was still worth taking the time to see.
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MCT:August 3, 2008
Allen's witty, easy to miss one-liners raise this weird, quirky and way-out-there comedy into an experience that even the more cerebral of us get a kick out of. It's wonderful to watch the chemistry between Allen and Diane Keaton as they bounce off each other's energies, and hats off to Keaton for throwing reserve and caution to the air and going all out with her character. The story is very orginal for its time, as it delves into cloning, time travel and society having lost its carnal desires to technology. On top of that, the scenes Allen chooses to show are unusual ones which focus more on the personal experiences of the characters rather than the bigger picture of what's going on in the world. The sets are extremely campy but this simply adds to the overall slapstick feel and 'anything goes' attitude of the film. The best thing about Sleeper, however, is definitely the score, composed and played by Allen and his orchestra. Woody, I don't know how you do it, but you know how to make it work!
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MCT:July 28, 2008"Miles Monroe" (Woody Allen) was a clarinet playing health food store owner in 1973 who was frozen after slipping into a coma. Two-hundred years later, he wakes in a police state where people "perform" sex in an "Ograsmatron" booth and robots have replaced household help and man's best friend as well.
He is hired to help the Underground to destroy this police state's "Leader" and comes across poet/artist "Luna" (Diane Keaton), whom thinks "Miles" is trying to destroy the lifestyle she has grown accustom to.
The first thing you will notice in this movie, which will be hard not to, is that a lot of sight gags just comes at you at a continuous pace. However, unlike "Airplane!" the jokes produce few laughs. In fact, many of the slapstick comedy you've seen before, only set up differently.
Many of the other jokes are quite original, but I just didn't laugh at them. Another problem with some jokes were that they were dated.
There are a lot of visuals in this film, mostly sight gags, and cheap science-fiction props and costumes. These really do not help the movie at all.
Sci-Fi fans may be a little disappointed with the way the police state storyline is handled. The citizens just seem like they aren't brainwashed into believing they are meant to live their lives the way the government wants them to. Another problem is that the "Underground" is poorly developed. I don't even recall if the "Underground" was explained, if not explained well, before we get to meet them on-screen.
For the most part, the performances from the cast are good. However, Woody Allen is basically playing the same character he plays in every movie he has made, and I just can not stand him in front of the camera.
The characters have some development to give the audience an understanding of them, however there is a flaw with the love story subplot between "Miles" and "Luna," who either has a boyfriend or a husband, but it is not explained at all.
The soundtrack is written and performed, on clarinet, by Allen himself. In my opinion, Allen is a good director and musician -- actor is another story. The music fits the scenes they are in quite nicely too.
Allen comedies target a specific audience that I am certainly not a part of. I personally can't recommend this movie. -
MCT:July 25, 2008
The funniest of Allen's early screwball comedies. A sci-fi satire that is completely ludricous and zany. Slapstick at its best. It's also remarkable just how ahead of its time this little comedy is: Cloning a nose? Brilliant. Highlights include Woody winning a beauty contest and of course the wonderful comic timing between Allen and Keaton.
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MCT:July 22, 2008One of Allen's best with Diane Keaton in first lead role. Allen's description of a strange creature: The body of an anteater and the head of a social worker.
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MCT:July 9, 2008
Miles Monroe: Where am I anyhow, I mean, what happened to everybody, where are all my friends?
Dr. Aragon: You must understand that everyone you knew in the past has been dead nearly two hundred years.
Miles Monroe: But they all ate organic rice!
Woody Allen plus Science Fiction equals a very funny premise for a movie. This is a wonderful idea that Allen has come up with, implanting his character into a futuristic world.
[Miles gets to look at some pictures to identify the people on them]
Miles Monroe: This was Josef Stalin. He was a communist, I was not too crazy about him, had a bad mustache, lot of bad habits. This is Bela Lugosi. he was, he was the mayor of New York city for a while, you can see what it did to him there, you know. This is, uhm, this is, uh, Charles DeGaulle, he, he was a very famous French chef, had his own television show, showed you how to make souflets and omelettes and everything.
Allen is Miles Munroe. Miles has just been awoken from a 200 year sleep following one of those standard accidents where a person ends up being preserved and awoken in the future.
Seen as a threat, Miles is immediately sought by the authorities and forced to be on the run. Miles is alerted by a group of scientists that he must attempt to find an underground activist group looking to overthrow the possibly corrupt government.
Miles Monroe: I'm not really the heroic type. I was beat up by Quakers.
Along the way, Miles meets a futuristic poet and hippie, Luna played by Diane Keaton in her first Woody Allen movie, and the two eventually flee together, and attempt to put a stop to possible corruptness, although true to Allen form, there is never a good answer involving leaders.
Besides the plot, this movie is of course about Allen interacting in a futuristic world. The portrayal of the future Allen has created is very funny while containing various elements of plausibility, making the film serve as a satirical take on human progression.
It also helps that Woody Allen's dialog matches how great of a physical comedian he can be. There is a sequence where he has to impersonate a robot, which is hysterical. Keaton and Allen also have great chemistry throughout this film.
Very funny movie.
Luna Schlosser: What's it feel like to be dead for 200 years?
Miles Monroe: Like spending a weekend in Beverly Hills. -
MCT:June 7, 2008
Hilarious and daring Woody Allen sci-fi comedy. lol! Interesting, and nevertheless funny perspective.
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MCT:June 5, 2008
stupid, silly, goofy..yea its al lthat and more..if you are a Woody fan..its a must see..enough said!
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MCT:May 29, 2008I've only recently started to get into Woody Allen films. Having just watched Annie Hall, which is probably his most recognizable film, I decided to go with "Sleeper". It had been recommended to me by a lot of people and i've heard nothing but great things. However, I must say, I was fairly let down. Perhaps I should've done more research on the film before seeing it, but the relentless slapstick gags fell a bit short for me.
One day Miles Monroe, owner of a health food store, goes to a hospital for a minor surgery. Two hundred years later, he's awoken by scientists. However, little did he know - he was not awoken out of the kindness of their hearts, he was essentially an unwilling recruit from an underground society. The only thing he knows about his mission is that it's called "Project Aires", and shortly thereafter he's sent on his way. Over the course of the movie he disguises himself as a maid robot, eats giant fruit, battles corrupt police officers, etc. Really, in terms of plot, this is essentially a whole bunch of familiar stories jumbled together. The difference, however, is that the protagonist is not a handsome hero, rather it's neurotic Woody Allen.
The movie starts off very well. Some of the gags are the epitome of "trying too hard", however it's over the top to the point where you're laughing a little bit... then rolling your eyes... then as it keeps going on, the absurdity of it all makes you laugh until you cry. Really classic sketch comedy there. All of the stuff with Woody's "drunken" state after being unfrozen to him posing as a robot was all a blast to watch.
However, to me the movies downfall was... well, the plot. This would've been lots of fun if it was just a movie about Woody Allen messing around in the future, however there's this whole thing about "The Leader" that seems incredibly rushed and sucks the fun out of it all. I was having a blast watching this, however the last act was probably the worst drop off from great to horrendously bad i've ever seen. It really left me with a sour taste in my mouth. Not only was it all nonsensical and rushed, the movie also leaves you with one of the least convincing onscreen romances I think i've ever seen. When i'm not buying into DIANE KEATON AND WOODY ALLEN as being in love, there's something a bit wrong there.
That being said, this isn't really a film that anyone could hate. It's all harmless fun, and there's some clever stuff put in there. This is a lot more slapstick than I was expecting, and the intelligent script of Annie Hall is replaced with a screenplay filled more with nonsensical gags and the occasional pop culture reference. Don't get me wrong, this isn't Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell levels of stupidity, it's more along the lines of Monty Python.
I liked this, but I can't say i'd rush to recommend this to anyone I know. Perhaps it just didn't hold up well with time since this type of comedy is so overdone in 2008, but I found this to be your typical Hollywood fare with a slightly more realized and creative plot. For it's time it was revolutionary and completely innovative, but I find the slightly "smarter" comedy of a film like Annie Hall to hold up more by today's standards. It's good stuff overall, but a mess of a third act and one-liners that fell short really distanced myself from the film. -
MCT:May 17, 2008
Chistosa, pero aún con la inmadurez cinematográfica de las primeras películas de Woody Allen. / Funny, but still with the cinematic immaturity of Woody Allen's first films.
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MCT:May 11, 2008
Not as funny as Love and Death, and not as clever or well-written as Annie Hall, but still, it's pretty damn good. I'd watch this for Diane Keaton's Brando impersonation alone. God she's brilliant.
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MCT:April 25, 2008Not funny and pretty boring and stupid. It really amazes me that he makes as many movies as he does.
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MCT:March 27, 2008Wow! I couldn't stop laughing even hours after this was finished! Original, clever, wonderful work by Woody Allen, as writer,director and actor of this strangely enough satire sci-fi movie.
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MCT:March 1, 2008
Before Allen really established himself as an accomplished director with Annie Hall, he made mainly screwball comedies. Of those, Sleeper is easily the best of them. Very funny comedy, with terrific social commentary.
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MCT:February 21, 2008
In a rush to homage dystopian fantasies and the slapstick comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, the Marx brother and Harold Lloyd; Woody Allen makes a silly, small scale, mildly funny film with a wild soundtrack and the always fresh presence of the talented, young and beautiful Diane Keaton.
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MCT:January 24, 2008
Health-food store owner Miles Monroe is accidentally frozen for 200 years and wakes up in a weird future dystopia where Diane Keaton is not considered too annoying to be a female lead. It's a lot of fun as a collection of one liners ("I haven't had sex for 200 years... 204 if you count my marriage") and slapstick bits that recall the great silent comedians, but the plot is little more than a framework to hang bits from.
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MCT:January 16, 2008
Not a W. Allen fan but I am a sci-fi fan and this one was really the first intentional 'sci-fi comedy' that I ever saw as a kid.
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MCT:January 13, 2008
Luna: It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for 200 years.
Miles: 204, if you count my marriage.
Existe-t-il réellement un autre mot qu'«hilarant» pour décrire Sleeper? Après un tel visionnement, le spectateur est en mesure de s'interroger. Woody Allen n'a-t-il pas emprunté le chemin plus long?
Enfin, c'était peut-être ce qu'il voulait. Ressasser mille et une fois les mêmes thèmes durant une vingtaine de films, question que son auditoire en ait plein la gueule et qu'ils retiennent enfin le message qu'il essayait de passer. Mais avec un maigre total de 9 films de Woody Allen à mon actif (ça représente en fait environ 21% de la globalité de son oeuvre), je dois avouer que ce message, je ne l'ai même pas encore saisi. Allez voir votre psychanalyste parce que vous êtes cinglé? Attention parce que la soeur de votre femme trompe peut-être son mari? Méfiez-vous parce que les médecins sont attirés par les adultères?
Peu importe. Le fait est que, quand on visionne Sleeper, on se demande qu'est-ce qui a pu modifier de telle façon cette si belle mentalité qu'il avait alors. Pas que je critique ou que je n'apprécie pas le Woody Allen qui s'en est ensuivi; simplement que je le préfères alors qu'il délaisse de côté ces thématiques-miroir pour se concentrer sur un scénario amusant là où un humour incroyablement intelligent règne. Ce ne sont d'ailleurs pas les référents cinématographiques et historiques qui manquent, et Allen en profite bien pour faire un petit pied-de-nez à l'histoire en passant, ce qui ne manque pas de nous arracher plusieurs grands sourires de temps à autre. Mais ne nous le cachons pas, Sleeper est un film dont plusieurs éléments se classent dans la catégorie burlesque, celle-là même qui abrite les Mr. Bean, les Buster Keaton et les Laurel & Hardy de ce monde. Toutefois, supposons que Woody Allen ne voulait pas être reconnu de cette façon.
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MCT:January 12, 2008
Too weird for my liking, but still hilarious at times, especially that one scene where Woody Allen attempts to fly.. and the nose!
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MCT:December 28, 2007
It's not that funny, I don't know what the hype is about. It's similar to films like Mel Brooks' History of the world and Allen's Take the Money And Run. It's primarily a bunch of one-liners and physical gags with a plot sewn through it. Fairly funny, some really hilarious bits but overall, nothing great.
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MCT:November 21, 2007
I loved Sleeper! I'm a huge fan of future interpretation films, and as off as this one was it was still barrels of fun and Diane Keaton young tickles my fancy like no other. interesting how so little digital mechanisms. it was basically the 70's with fancier stuff. WRONG...but still I loved it.
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MCT:November 2, 2007
This is one of my favourite Woody Allen films. Full of zany humor, Woody's usual views on life and a jazz accompaniment. In my opinion it's worth watching just for the line, 'Don't move or the nose gets it!'
