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This is fortunate because it gives his performance a certain resonance without which Buddy would be as flat and incomplete as all of the other characters in this pointless little farce.
Released by Miramax strategically for Oscar and Golden Globe (what a farce) consideration, the Weinsteins apparently own, along with Dick Clark, the critical community and won 8 Globe nominations for their overblown failure.
I tend to disagree there are so many laughs you can pack into a romantic comedy without turning it into a farce.
Aside from the discotheque scenes that epitomize the swinging sixties (especially with everyone dancing to instrumental versions of Monkees hits), I am surprised how well this lightweight farce holds up 37 years later, but indeed it does thanks to the breezy execution of its deception-based plot and the sharp interplay of the three leads.
Maybe it's tied up in court on some legal issue, but a truly riotous hospital farce with Sellers as crooked administrator.
A good example of comedy and farce, with excellent script and comedy actors in the right parts.
It's truly a magnificent comedy (I'd say farce, but it's too well acted and I'd hate to denigrate it's quality).
Adapted from a play by John Dighton, this farce is briskly handled by director Frank Launder.
Often misunderstood, the film is actually a departure from the type of film Sellers was best known for; satirical farce.
I'm not a fan of this brand of comedy - stereotyped characters over-acting their way through a cops and robbers farce.
This bedroom farce isn't terribly sophisticated (and faintly reminds one of "Any Wednesday" besides), but it's a welcome relief from the noisy, teen-oriented comedies they turn out today.
Although our man is something of an overt xenophobe,sexist,homophobe, it's treated as pure farce (as I said, don't take it too seriously).
While it may not be his most laugh-packed film, MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE stands as one of Charley Chase's most satisfying farce comedies, twenty minutes of clever sight gags, nicely choreographed physical comedy, and amusing quips (rendered via title card, of course) all based on a wacky and wildly implausible premise.
A farce in the English tradition.
There is enough meaning and emotional complexity to make this a lot more than a standard boy-girl farce.
However, the real star of the film is the unseen director, Frank Oz, who brings all the madcap sensibility and wit to this farce that he brought to Miss Piggy's encounters with Kermit the frog.
Liv Tyler plays a manipulative woman who tries to get her own way by flaunting her body to every man she meets ,all of which fall under her spell.There are a few funny moments in this but they get fewer and fewer as the film deteriorates into a comedy farce.
That's the preposterous premise of this frantic farce.
The structure, a classic farce, is ideal for the period as multiple plot lines zip and intersect only to come together in a logical, satisfying conclusion.
For the rest of the night and over the next couple of days, though, clever moments and funny lines kept creeping back into my thoughts and our conversation... There's a lot going on, classic elements of farce, good character acting, and Wendie Malick's story line is just hysterical.
"Labyrinth of Passion" is a rollicking farce with plenty of high jinks, hilarious dialog and eye candy for everyone.
For all those people who believe the dialog is worth something, and who appreciate a farce that is clever enough for you to take it seriously, this movie will surprise you.
This hilarious farce, I believe, is in the tradition of a Mel Brooks comedy.
This ugly, hysterical farce should be placed with the likes of "Booty Call", "Pumpkinhead", "Swarm", and "The Smurfs Go To Bangladesh".
It seems difficult to believe that so many famous people (Anthony Quinn, Lawrence Olivier, John Gielguld, Vittorio de Sica, etc.) would have willingly participated in this farce.
Even for farce, its silliness is lumbering, not much makes sense from scene to scene, and its sentimental messages are as phony as Affleck's grin.
It starts off with being a thriller to be taken at face value and then degenerates into a farce rather than satire.
Too bad this movie wasn't made to be a farce, or it may have gotten better ratings.
Just imagine a predictable soap opera transformed into a comic farce.
Somehow, One-Hit Wonder Zwick manages a film that simultaneously offends Elvis fans, Mary Kay saleswomen, Las Vegas, gays, FBI agents and the rest of humanity with any intelligence with a shoddy, sloppy farce so forced it deserves to be forsaken ed.
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