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As a cold war farce it is there with ONE TWO THREE (as a bookend) and the sly sexual crudity recycled into LOLITA is flat out funny.
Mad Magazine behavior and tabloid sledgehammer comedy add to allow any viewer who knows this is STOOPID but masquerading as a political farce will get most jokes..............the rest...well, read the comments from folk who can't connect the flouro colors..... Stubby Kaye is in fine GUYS AND, er, ROGER RABBIT form and it is fun to see his Schick in full flight with several showstopper musical numbers.
The man who brought us that untouchable sci-fi milestone The Lawnmower Man (arf!) is so clearly unaware of how to generate tension that the film descends into farce from the opening frames.
I am so far removed from the target audience of this cartoonish, estrogen-heavy 2009 farce that it became a challenge to sit all the way through its blissfully brief 89-minute running time.
Le Libertin, is a French farce about the famous Enlightenment philosopher, Denis Diderot, and his attempts to hide his wickedly atheistic encyclopedia from the church until its completion.
This movie is, on the surface, a bawdy, sexy, perverse farce.
But beneath this surface, there is more bawd, sex, perversion and farce.
I count this as the worst sequel ever in one of the best series ever.Previous rocky movies dealt with a lot of hardship but had a great overall positive and motivating feeling.Then this farce of a film comes along.Its the worst start ever for a movie.Hey Rocky you're brain damaged and oh yeah you lost ALL your money.Somehow.There's no decent fight in the whole movie that scrap at the end is nothing better than the one at the chipper last night..How long does it take to fly to Russia??
Had there been any research done on the factual basis of this story, there may have been some interesting thread, but as any intelligent person who has even the slightest understanding of how technology or the internet works, this movie is an obvious farce.
I used the forward button and I was surprised with the generosity of the magnificent Drew Barrymore, participating in this farce.
The part about the selection of Landis as baseball commissioner is a farce.
I thoroughly enjoyed this French farce that was boldly colorful, imaginatively creative, and passionately contrived.
This is a movie that overstates its importance every minute and ends up as the farce that it is, which might explain why it was out of theaters almost instantly.
In this short from his series at Hal Roch studios the comedian manages to make a witty, complicated farce of sorts fit comfortably into two reels.
Sadly it comes off as if he were cut out from another film and pasted into this farce.
With all the makings of a good period drama, "South..." wanders aimlessly into farce, staggers around in comedy, teeters in the action genre, and falls on its face dying a slow and painful death from lack of a story and substance.
My blue heaven is a wonderful farce made in 1990 starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cussack.
But don't underestimate the power of this farce as a vehicle to show the transformation each character.
There were a few humorous lines, but the viewer expects more laughs from a sex farce.
Had the movie gone for either the farce or the drama, I'd probably have given it a 5/10, but it didn't - it mixed up the two and got a cocktail of boring and flat out failure.
True stage farce is a very rare thing, even in an actual theater.
the comedy was very poor and you do have to wonder how much Simon pegg really was involved in the script and the final outcome was a complete farce.
There is not a single false note of melodrama or farce in this film.
Sure, it's over the top at times, but it's supposed to be; it's a farce.
Stuck in cinematic farce like this.
Over-the-top sex farce by John Waters is funny throughout the first half of the movie but loses the story and just uses sex pranks and disgusting stuff to fill up the last half.
Poor Craig T. Nelson, who I've enjoyed elsewhere, was hammy and ridiculous as the evil king.The young actress playing Red Riding Hood had one singing voice for the ballad and another for an up tempo song.If you enjoy unintentional farce, if you are a MSTK3 fan who can imagine Crow and Tom Servo dissecting this-you'll enjoy this movie.
When this was released for video (the same year it was released in theaters, a shockingly low 3 month gap in between) I was expecting it to be just a silly, lightweight farce involving no imagination.
It sounds like some sort of cheap sex farce, but this wonderful gem from MGM is actually a very sophisticated work.
It's "Jackass" meets "The Awful Truth"--the Michael Moore television show, not the Cary Grant/Irene Dunn farce.
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