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It's a movie that understands how funny a single door constantly opening and closing can be, provided there is a parade of zany enough characters passing through it, all of whom possess impeccable comic timing.
Charles M. Schulz's typically warm and witty script milks the nifty premise for several very strong and sidesplitting belly laughs: Among the hilarious comic highlights are Linus fainting when Snoopy cuts up his beloved blanket, Snoopy smearing mud on Charlie Brown, Snoopy putting a white sheet, a belt, and shoes on Charlie Brown which makes him look like a ghost, Charlie Brown finally getting to kick the football while invisible, and Snoopy levitating the ever-snarky Lucy and leaving her up in the air.
In this comic twist on "Carrie", low-key, nice-guy science whiz Barney Springboro (Scott Baio) has an accident in his lab one day, endowing him with powers of telekinesis which affable, scheming best pal Peyton (Willie Aames) is most anxious to exploit.
Azumi even lacks a comic book atmosphere, because it has a grammar school production atmosphere.
Supposed to be a comedy, this dog stumbles clumsily along with a monotonous storyline punctuated with some comic relief which is so bad the only relief is when the film ends.
"That," I thought of the movie when it was over, "after setting aside all the comic exaggeration, is the real Japan."
Burt Kennedy who made so many good comic westerns back in the day, tried his hand at a serious realistic western and fell flat on his face with it.
While films like Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, and Superfly featured larger than life characters that border on being comic book characters, Across 110th Street seeks to give a more accurate portrait of what was happening in the inner-cities in the early 1970s.
Most collections of comic sketches are extremely uneven.
Based on a comic strip, this movie was colorful and believable as one.
Yaphet Kotto, is the comic sidekick; I don't think I have ever seen him smile as much as he did in this movie.
I remember sitting down and watching an interview with the creators, a pair of comic book authors who chose to go the independent route and gamble on their own ability to succeed.
Leo Putt as Lord Wang brings some much-appreciated comic relief to what in lesser hands could've been an overly-grim slug fest of the "mechanical martial arts" variety (wherein the standard katas are performed by actors whose expressions never change).
Harvey Pekar is a comic book writer in reality and fiction.
Additionally, there's the comic book dimension, which takes us further into the fictional Harvey Pekar.
Dustin Hoffman plays Lenny Bruce, the controversial stand-up comic who views comedy as a form of debate...I am going to take a stab at why this film is in black & white...The vast majority of this film takes place in the late fifties and early sixties..The black and white presentation exudes the era in which Lenny Bruce's popularity prevailed!! Black and White captures the three packs of cigarettes an evening per deviate nightclub era of the Lenny Bruce days so so so cogently!!... Interesting concept.. How many men get their blank blanked.. How many men have blanked a blank.. None?..They aren't telling the truth...especially those in lower middle management!! How about the fact that your wife is not a lesbian, but for purposes of a voyeuristic thrill...Why not?..Kind of degrading!! but for Lenny Bruce, that's the best part... SORT OF!!!...KIND OF!!... How can you curb obscenity when obscenity is the truth?...How does an overzealous, intellectual, New York Jewish comic ignore his upbringing?
I would also say that it captures the same style from the Manga (comic books) that is very funny and romantic.
Tyrone Power shows his considerable comic flare in his role as a young American in Paris who is blackmailed into posing as a Russian prince to court a wealthy heiress (Loretta Young).
The story, based on the comic book by Taiyo Matsumoto, focuses on two homeless orphans, one named Black and the other White, who live on the streets of Treasure Town, a seething cauldron of criminality, vice and corruption.
This is a feeble and desperate attempt to tap into what is left of the underground comic book audience.
Natural", telling the story of his life through his wife and brothers, with a few scenes of him at a vernissage and a comic book store (etc.)
Reckless behavior follows and comic scenes of debauchery ensue as the kids get existential, craving faster music, driving recklessly and becoming overtly more lustful.
Jean Arthur's voice, smile, and comic timing were always impeccable, and this film is no exception.
Consistently funny throughout with great dialog and comic situations, comparisons have been drawn between it and My Favorite Wife which was actually released later that year.
Where'd this film come from and how come it took me til now to see it??? It's a comic masterpiece, hard laughs from start to finish, a wry satire of the tough guy genre.
Great cast, especially Liam Neeson who shows a remarkable comic flair.
I am also a huge fan of the graphic novel, and all similar comic books.
All of the edgy black humor and sarcasm of the comic book is translated to the screen, and a lot of care has been taken to recreate the look of the town.
Fans of the comic will immediately recognise the images of Daniel Clowes's masterpiece.
Thora Birch and Scarlet Johansson play the two girls brilliantly, staying true to the characters of the comic.
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