funniest movie ever

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I agree with you, this is by far Woody Allens funniest movie. Bananas was funny, and reconstructing Harry was also very funny, but this is by far the best of his comedy movies.

I especially like the scene right after his wife dumped him, where he has this vision of his wife driving on the back of a motorcycle with a tall blond man, and he cries out: "We'we been divorced two weeks and shes dating a Nazi".

Or when he is trying to impress the date who comes over by the remark: " I like the rain, it washes memories of the sidewalk of life" why don't they write comedy like that anymore.

So many more great moments in this movie....

If i'm not back in one hour, sublet my appartment.

This indeed is one of his best and a personal favorite of mine but i wonder why he didn't direct it not that it could have been any better, maybe the studio heads wanted a well respected director and Herbert Ross certainly is that

To actually try and pick out my favorite scene would be near impossible. The part where Allen says, "I'd really have to like her alot.", or when he says ,"I was no where near oakland!"(my sister and I are constantly quoting this one randomly), or when he says, "Needed tossing anyhow." Doesn't matter what, this is one of the funniest, if not the, of all time. This is what made me fall in love with Woody Allen. I am constantly watching and re-watching this movie.

This is one of the funniest movies. Every time people ask me my favorite funny movies...I have to start with Woody Allen. One of my favorite all-time scenes is when Diane Keaton arrives before Woody's blind date and he is setting out his medals from Jr high track! Then when his date arrives and he can't even speak! The turntable incident! This is classic humor, I'm getting my VHS copy out now!!!

The best thing about the film (besides the Woody/Diane chemistry of course)....the West Coast setting. It was apparently due to a strike in NYC that the film was moved to San Francisco.

My favorite line comes when Diane's character is setting up a blind date for Woody's character...she's on the phone with the woman, scheduling a dinner for later that day...when she's telling the woman how to dress for the date, she says, "Simple dress is okay...flats are fine."

Woody gets irritated with her and says, "Tell her to wear heels! What am I, Toulouse-Lautrec?!"

Many Woody Allen articles and collections leave out "Play It Again, Sam" because he didn't direct it; I wonder how it would be different if he had. I think Herbert Ross was free to direct a better, funnier movie by not being so tied to the words and the original play. The pacing and rhythm of the film is darn near perfect, something that Woody Allen's own directing sometimes misses unless he resorts to cross-cutting (and I am a big Woody Allen fan).