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Not a slapstick comedy, not a heavy drama.
Filled with wonderful slapstick and all classic comedy you could want from a black and white film, it is an enjoyable film.
Rather than kidding her own image, as has been suggested here, to me it seems a satire on Gloria Swanson, who did start off in slapstick comedies, went on to highly emotional women's pictures and did end up marrying a Count.
The "Dad" and the girl go thru some slapstick routines.
It's precisely in those scenes that wit is replaced by English slapstick, and that is a pity in a movie that is none the less very enjoyable.
Prior to seeing Show People, my impression of silent comedy was essentially slapstick, and slapstick only.
It was much less slapstick than most of his movies and actually had a plot that was followable.
You have to be in Red Sox nation to understand that NY Yankees is a dirty word.Sorry to say that to the Yankee's fans.I recommend this picture for the entire family.Of course with your typical love/comedy movie,,there's a long moment in the movie,,with i'm in love and what do I do,,but the movie makes up for that with all the slapstick moments.The movie show's some moments of how the Red Sox nation( in Fenway Park)how the fans felt about 86 years of the Sox always screwed up at the end of the season and how the love of the Sox and the love with another human go hand to hand.
Once again, Billy Zane proves he's more than just a Hollywood pretty boy in a silent performance that combines spastic slapstick with understated pathos.
You seldom see him in wuxia, more often in classic eastern or crime slapstick.
Some scenes were hilarious and managed to be so in a movie not intended to be just a stupid slapstick comedy but with some meaning and moral values.It manages on both counts.The leads are all good but especially the guy who stars,also wrote and produced the movie.I've never seen any of these actors before, but they were likable and made me care about what happens to them in the end which is saying a lot.The script is clever and involving and has a refreshing feel to it.
This is campy, slapstick humor played out by some of Hollywood's best (and very versatile) actors.
This movie is a fast action slapstick comedy where something seems to happened every second.
As usual the lovers--Sally Field as almost-over-the-hill soap opera queen, Celeste Talbert; and Kevin Kline as marginally employed and marginally talented actor, Jeffrey Anderson--are working at cross purposes, seemingly unaware that they are madly in love, etc. Owing a little to Bette Davis's Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) and a whole lot to the slapstick theatrical tradition, Sally Field goes over the top towards hilarity as she malaprops her way to love and happiness.
I was laughing my head off with all of the jokes and the violence (mostly from Akane Ranma's reluctant but short tempered "fiancee")is so slapstick however Ranma does deserve it but he does try his best to make amends...clumsily.
It has good dogs, good actors, good jokes and all right slapstick!
While there was less slapstick, they still worked wonderfully together "comedically."
Almost every scene has some bit of humor: running gags, slapstick, and great jokes.
It incorporates perfectly-timed slapstick, sexual humour, and cleverly-thought-up stand-up.
In this film all those ingredients are presented in a delightfully artful and gracefully slapstick way.
Since his fantastic work and Magnum Opus 'Underground', Kusturica's films' 'Black Cat White Cat', 'Life is a Miracle', and recently with 'Promise Me This', his slapstick, carnivalistic style underscores the 'westernization' of Balkan culture, its ambivalent arrival and assault on the traditional idiom.
Davies lands a job in slapstick comedy, not what she wants, but it brings her success.
She meets fellow slapstick star William Haines, who is immediately smitten with her.
Davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life, but of course learns that is not who she really is.
The slapstick comedy performed by the lunkhead hired hand had me one the floor, but I admit that I am a sucker for slapstick.
Sure the slapstick is too much, the script has its weak spots and the plot is a tad uninspired.
No nudity, but lots of sexual implication, slapstick silliness...everything adolescents go for.
Specialty niche networks (nude sports), a TV show about stoner drug dealers called the Dealers (ala Weeds, and even predating 1978's Cheech & Chong Up In Smoke), weird beer commercials (Butz Beer, no less bizarre than Bud Bowls), dirty-minded kid's clown Koko (shades of Pee Wee Herman), even Chevy Chase doing slapstick humor (a violent barbershop vocal duo) a year before his 1975 debut on Saturday Night Live.
The choreography is fantastic throughout, whether for fighting or slapstick comedy and Gordon Liu's performance, as are the others, particularly the sympathetic monk work perfectly for the material.
But few have such a magical blend of slapstick, unique training and fighting, with a subtle yet warming tale of a useless guy making good.
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