While it has a creative concept behind it, MELINDA AND MELINDA ultimately can’t seem to make it work. The idea is that the same story will be told twice, once as a comedy, and once as a tragedy, unfortunately the story Allen chose to tell was not interesting and neither version benefited the other with its mirror image. The best one by far is the comedy section, mainly because the best thing about this movie is Will Ferrell’s performance as Allen’s foil. Unfortunately the comedy portion is way too short, while the tragedy segment is way too long and is an extremely boring affair. Radha Mitchell is a fine actress but doesn’t seem to know what to do here, as the script doesn’t really provide much. It’s an interesting failure from Allen, too bad it couldn’t have been more than that because it certainly deserves to.