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Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Chris Jarmick (--)Chris Jarmick (--)
Take the Money and Run is Woody Allen’s second movie (following What’s Up Tiger Lilly), but the first one he co-wrote, directed and starred in. He was once upon a time, a television writer and stand-up comedian who made a big name for himself with ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Chris Jarmick (--)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 3.09 out of 4 stars for ThreeMovieBuffs (Patrick Nash)ThreeMovieBuffs (Patrick Nash)
Woody Allen had written, acted and directed in films before Take the Money and Run. This was the first time he did them all on the same movie. The year was 1969 when Allen was 34. ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at ThreeMovieBuffs (Patrick Nash)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 3.08 out of 4 stars for Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Woody Allen's "Take the Money and Run" has some very funny moments, and you'll laugh a lot, but in the last analysis it isn't a very funny movie. It isn't really a movie at all. I suspect it's a list of a lot of things Woody Allen wanted to do in a movie ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for VideoVista (--)VideoVista (--)
Woody Allen's first film as writer, director and star is a documentary style pseudo-biographical farce about Virgil Starkwell, one of the screen's most hopeless would-be thieves. Partly narrated (by Jason Beck) Take The Money And Run is a likeable spoof ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at VideoVista (--)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.99 out of 4 stars for Jiminy Critic Reviews "Take the Money and Run"Jiminy Critic Reviews "Take the Money and Run"
Woody Allen’s debut film Take the Money and Run is the most unsatisfying of his early, funny movies. While his next two films (Bananas and Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex) share a similar structure—an incredibly simple storyline is ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Jiminy Critic Reviews "Take the Money and Run"
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.93 out of 4 stars for Edinburgh U Film Society (Matthew Bull)Edinburgh U Film Society (Matthew Bull)
Woody Allen's first film as director-writer-actor is a mock documentary following the criminal career of Virgil Starkweather (Woody Allen) from childhood to incarceration for bank robbery. Although today Woody Allen is today known more as a director ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Matthew Bull)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
The plot is just a thin excuse on which to hang Allen's nonstop visual and verbal antics. ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Time Out (--)Time Out (--)
But it has plenty of hilarious jokes and concepts, like the ventriloquists' dummies at prison visiting time, and the return home from a chaingang break with five shackled cons in tow. ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Time Out (--)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Casa De Cinema (Dave Gunn)Casa De Cinema (Dave Gunn)
of skits and gags woven together to connect the story of Virgil Starkwell. The film starts with his petty theft childhood days leading up to his days as an adult spending most of his time in jail for bank robberies gone haywire. It's a parody of several ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Casa De Cinema (Dave Gunn)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Vincent Canby)New York Times (Vincent Canby)
EVEN as a small, red-haired boy with poor vision, Virgil Starkwell, the hero of Woody Allen's "Take the Money and Run," is betrayed by fate—and by the fact that although he is aggressive he also is a schlemiel. The kid tries to rob a gumball machine ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at New York Times (Vincent Canby)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
The movie unfolds documentary style, a technique later used again in Zelig. ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Doug Pratt's DVD ReviewDoug Pratt's DVD Review
Woody Allen’s first original feature, the 1969 crime film spoof has a badly paced narrative, but its scattershot humor has endured, while its structure has actually become more common and easier to tolerate as the years have passed. Allen portrays a ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Doug Pratt's DVD Review
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for AudioVideoRevolution.com DVD reviewAudioVideoRevolution.com DVD review
In the 1960s, Woody Allen's ambitions grew; no longer content to be a gag writer for other comics, or even a stand-up comedian himself (though he was very successful at both), he wanted to cross over into writing movies. His play Don't Drink the Water ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at AudioVideoRevolution.com DVD review
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Movie Reviews UKMovie Reviews UK
An early Woody Allen comedy, Take the Money and Run is anarchic, awash with one-liners and perhaps not quite as good as people would wish it be. Put together in the documentary style, the film opens with Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) being born into the ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Movie Reviews UK
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for DVDTown (John J. Puccio)DVDTown (John J. Puccio)
This is the Woody Allen that a lot of people later said "why can't he be more like." This is Woody Allen's very first feature film as writer, director, and star. "Take the Money and Run" isn't so much a movie with a plot as it is a movie with an endless ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at DVDTown (John J. Puccio)
Take the Money and Run (1969) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)
Some moronic grad student has no doubt long since pompously postulated that this film contains the blueprint for all of Woody Allen's later work (i.e. all of his other original work, as this came first). That's somewhat right and also impossible. Woody ...read the complete Take the Money and Run movie review at Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)
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Take the Money and Run (1969) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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Take the Money and Run (1969) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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