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It's about how our brain is tricked into seeing a persistence of vision that creates a motion picture, and one of the things I had to do is, we — Sasha Baron Cohen is a very clever, very smart guy, comedian, wanted to basically do an homage to the kind of the Buster Keaton sort of slapstick things, and he wanted his leg brace to get caught on a moving train.
So as much as my machines can seem like simple engineering slapstick, I realize that I stumbled on something bigger than that.
Hailed by some scholars as the father of comedy, his fingerprints are visible upon comic techniques everywhere, from slapstick to double acts to impersonations to political satire.
For instance, the Knight’s tale of courtly love, chivalry, and destiny riffs on romance, while the tales of working-class narrators are generally comedies filled with scatological language, sexual deviance, and slapstick.
And the one who is happy, even for a slapstick joke, accepts himself and also the scheme of things in which one finds oneself.
Only one word can describe MR MAGOO - slapstick.
is it just me or have all "horror" movies become nothing more than titties, slapstick, and an over the top villain who cannot be killed.
Filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad (although repetitive and a little predictable) classic comedy, it isn't great, but it's a black and white film worth looking at.
Oddly enough, unlike most mindless slapstick comedies, this movie actually has TOO MUCH plot - every scene seems to introduce a new moronic and uninteresting subplot.
The Disney studios' remake of their own 1965 slapstick classic concerns a clever feline leading an F.B.I. agent to a kidnapped woman.
He recycles the 'Home Alone' formula yet again to produce this idiotic comedy, in which a baby makes his way around Chicago while inept kidnappers Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano and Brian Haley try to catch him, along the way enduring much tiresome slapstick.
Not even at a slapstick level!
In between, their relationship is now solely constructed of uncertain acting, asinine dialogue and half-hearted slapstick.
It is full of bad lines, bad acting, bad slapstick, etc.
This movie plays like someone who's giving a pale imitation of the trio and you can see how very hard Moe and Larry are working to make every little bit of slapstick relevant.
Mr. Bean is just a bunch of unfunny slapstick humour.
The comedy works in a level just short of slapstick.
She's not allowed to do the low-brow slapstick that made her a hit on TV so she has to rely on building a character.
The only jokes in this movie seem to be based on slapstick.
Alot of catholic humor and slapstick but the script is kinda thin as are the laughs..
Everybody seems to be trying so hard in this movie, running around in imitation of slapstick but not pulling it off.
There were some competently worked out gags, but making slapstick villains out of American citizens who'd been interned in camps strictly due to their race was amazingly tasteless.
I waited a long time to finally see what I thought was going to be a fun caper flick and was shocked to discover shoddy direction, awkward dialogue, a lackluster pace, unmotivated slapstick gags and an overall coarseness that permeated the film throughout.
The film was moderately amusing, at best, and irritating at worst (the slapstick comedy styling of building an ark with archaic tools, laugh ... no I didn't).
The film cannot decide whether to be a slapstick comedy (of a very uninspired and routine kind) or whether to be a insightful satire on the old East Germany and its mores.
It's like slapstick on Prozac.
It lacks the biting satire of the original, going instead for "lowest common denominator" slapstick.
If you can make it through the ridiculous crowd scene by the train station...whoa...it's rather slapstick and not worthy of any actor in the cast.
At least "Fast Times" had a fair share of satire and sensitivity behind its slapstick (courtesy of a good director, Amy Heckerling, and Crowe's undeniable penchant for capturing letter-perfect teen-speak); here, Chris Penn (Sean's brother, natch) is the goof-off who makes life hell for straight arrow Eric Stoltz, and the filmmakers seem to think he's hilarious.
Extreme bad taste mingles with slapstick and Humphries' usual scathing satire in a film which is more enjoyable in it's many funny parts, than taken together as a whole.
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