The anxiety-ridden New York milieu, the Billie Holiday songs, the shrink jokes are familiar, but this time we see it all played out by a new generation.

Woody Allen tries to extend the shelf-life of his screen persona by hiring a younger, more marketable actor

None of this adds up to much of a movie; it's more like a filmed hodgepodge of not-fully- thought-out ideas and one-liners and small shards of jaundiced polemic.

This is a weak little whisper of a movie in which Woody Allen steals from his own previous, better movies.