From the music score composed by Marvin Hamlisch (who composed the music for Woody's "Take the Money and Run" and "Bananas") to Soderbergh direction, framing, and pace, it takes me back to the first Woody Allen's movies.
Did anybody else get this feeling? And enjoyed it as much as I did?
Yes, I also had that same impression. In fact, a PBS documentary about Hamlisch included footage with Soderbergh discussing how Hamlisch got the job to compose the score for this movie, The Informant!
Basically, Soderbergh had been working on another movie prior to The Informant!, and to break tension on the set, he showed Woody Allen's 1971 movie Bananas. And Soderbergh felt that Hamlisch would be the perfect choice to do the score for The Informant!, because he saw it as a kind of a comedy caper movie.
I, too was thinking early Woody Allen. The kazoo, in particular.
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Also when I'd heard that this movie was based on a "real life story", I was amazed because the movie was so comical and I wondered if the real-life situation played out as comically as this movie did?
According to interviews I've read with the actual man, I think no.
Ephemeron.