An irregular comedy of an actor/director as debatable as Paul Mazurksy. A movie to be remembered only because of his starring couple, Divine Bette Midler and a great Woody Allen with a tail.
Its an unsuccessful and sometimes boring movie, in where the dialogue gets priority especially over the rest and the mall causes an endless number of musical and diegetic tunes in too different styles: from performances of mariachis (Mexican restaurant) to oriental music (the protagonists buy several quantities of sushi), including the performances of a Christmas choir in the galleries (more than six or seven different tunes) or certain rappers who wonder around and result difficult to stand with.
Though Marc Shaiman appears in the credits as composer of the original music and adapter, its true that his work into the first category is too limited, almost symbolic, limiting itself to four very brief incursions (three in shy tunes in a piano and a fourth across a scanty tune for clarinet, sentimental and sad). As for the most extensive work as musical adapter, we can emphasize several Nino Rota's themes (Amarcord and Julieta of the Spirits), as well as of classic as Cole Porter, which he Shaimans performs in a brief cameo (See "Media" section) during the dance of the main characters in a very exclusive piano club.
Definitively, the life of the own shopping center and his diegetic music, as well as the continuous dialogue, steal protagonism to Shaiman's work as composer, who has to satisfy himself with a good task of arrangement of numerous themes, as well as orchestrator (together with Hummie Mann), and producer of the final theme of the movie, performed by wonderfull Bette Midler, a Cole Porter true classic "You Do Something to Me".
Mazursky and Shaiman have not meet again. Yes, the director does not directs too much, either...

Score: 5 - Adaptation: 7,5