Still has the shitty "cheat the narrative" ploy that most lazy pictures of his feature (fake documentary, group of friends gathering around to remember a story, narration, talking to the audience, etc.) but its not incessant. That plus a few weak story elements aside, I laughed at it more than any movie this side of In the Loop; in fact, I'd say the laughs were louder than those produced by that aforementioned film. And, as opposed to Woody's more recent fare, it didn't feel like his personal philosophies were being shoved into characters or actors or stories that couldn't handle them, i.e., it all played quite naturally to me.

Larry David = gold, Jerry, gold.