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It's a just punishment for Dunaway's crimes against humanity, acting and fashion and it's a great relief for the audience.
Billing euthanasia as comedy relief is either an attempt to exploit the animals the film portrays or it's a product of a sick, twisted culture that has reached the bottom of the barrel for something funny.
An interesting and diverse cast adds to the fun, and for intended comic relief, there's Christina Holland(from TV's "The Courtship of Eddie's Father")as a student studying sex, and tape recording her sessions.
There's also plenty of comic relief in this film, with Argyle, McLanes' limo driver, being oblivious to the anarchy occurring above him whilst he is in the underground car park listening to music and chatting up ladies.
When Vincent Price the comic relief, as Omar Khayyam, sells the availability of men to the raiders he literally is on top of what you may call a soap box.
It shouldn't be a welcome relief when a main character "bites it", as we say over here, however when Ella sticks it to Cassie we find ourselves really applauding a situation for the very first time in this show - SEVEN EPISODES IN!
Strange & Middleton seem to be miscast, respectively, as the comic relief & sheriff, and Zucco just seems to be wooden as the hotel owner.
This is really pathetic usage of the stupid kid as comic relief for a really lame story about returning a magical staff to save the world and all that good stuff.
Fritz VanderHoff, his patron and introduction to Sleepy Hollow's supernatural side, is amazing comic relief and really gets into the historic side of his handyman character.
Whenever a musical number finished, I would sigh with relief that a moment of horror was over.
Beatniks are really nothing more than the backdrop and comedy relief.
Humor was also added into the mix which is very nice except the comic relief, Shia's best friend Ronny is a bit annoying at times.
Sight gags (walking into a tree) and silliness (Stalin's successors act up like the three stooges at his death) provide the only comic relief from this dreary tale that seems to go on for hours.
So is a movie worth watching when the direction is even clunkier than the acting, when the acting with only one or two exceptions is embarrassingly amateurish, when the plot is chopped up and dull, when the jokes and comedy relief aren't just flat they're concave, and when the murder in the title is barely squeezed in 55 minutes into the 58 minute run time?
There's lot's of insipid comedy relief that's not really funny, and drama that has no depth.
It is light hearted and easy to follow for most any age yet has enough comic relief for adults to be entertained from the gnomes.
Richard Dreyfuss provides the intelligence, Ron Howard the aloof personality, Paul LeMat the muscle, and Charles Martin Smith the comic relief as the four main players in director George Lucas' first major breakthrough in movies before his adventure with the 'Star Wars' films began in 1977.
No story, no script, wooden (Glenn Ford, Inger Stevens, and George Hamilton) or over- (Max Baer as Jethro on angel-dust) acting, even the "comic" relief is embarrassing.
The occasional relief of the awaiting gallows underlines the sacrifice he has made.
So trite, the way they yet again use the unfunny, stone-faced Leningrad Cowboys as some kind of sorry comic relief.
Oh, minor quibbles: meseems poor Calamity Jane has been overworked for comic relief sometimes, and, I would be curious for the historic citations for the likes of Mr. Wu and his pigpen.
Brian Blessed's Augustus is comic relief, but one that carries a big stick even though his wife is paving the way.
Jim Peterson's character, Hank, was the comic relief for the film and boy does Jim have great comic timing.
The look on the face of an ostrich almost seems to be one of relief.
When Joe dies the film treats his death with a sense of relief.
However the ending credits are a big relief, they end a long torture, a long suffering, that you cant wait to end.
The guy playing the self-proclaimed "fat, old" cop waiting to retire is probably the best just for comic relief.
In fact, the only relief from the random dialog in the plane is the few welcome moments when the viewer is back on planet earth, a place this entire production has never been.
After regaining some of the ground he lost in Hollywood with his last couple of Hong Kong films, Jackie Chan takes a big step backwards with the overlong Rob-B-Hood, a downmarket three bad men and a baby romp that offers limp gay jokes, comic relief mental illness, family bonding and child endangerment for all the family.
Maybe the relief of seeing the closing credits is about it!
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