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One is tempted to put some of the blame for this mess on Lemmon (who does some uncharacteristically sloppy slapstick here), but Clive Donner's direction should bear the brunt of it--he has no clue how to present this story.
The film starts out promisingly enough with a diamond heist which is more slapstick than suspenseful.
The General is a silent comedy (mostly slapstick) about Johnny Gray, a train engineer with two loves: his engine and Annabelle Lee.
Forgettable Disney product with the expected slapstick interludes is well-made, if not fresh.
This is one of the rare movies in comedy that i could watch over and over again,, this movie is sooooo , freaking funny it's like a laugh a minute,, especially how Vinny,, "bag of donuts" is woken up constantly every morning,, first the train,, then the pigs i think the owl, and o yeah the steam whistle... i can relate to that stuff, and living relatively close to N.Y. for years i can relate to the accents in the movie,, very Brooklyn if i'm not mistaken,, i loved Joe Pesci in this movie,, this is one of his finer moments ever in a comedic role,, Marissa Tomei however stole the whole show for me,, not only is she sexy and pretty she can act too, her accent fits her like a glove, Ralph Maccio,, hmm well, not everything can be perfect.. i Loved Fred Gwynne the judge,, he is so hilarious,, i just bust out every time he gets Vinny on Contempt of Court or something,, and order him to some jail time,, overall the plot was simple... yeah some of it's corny,, i guess you kinda have to be a Pesci, Tomei fan to appreciate all the slapstick,, but hey it's one of the funniest movies that you'll ever see and you won't regret watching it that's for sure,,
However, unlike those two films this one was inappropriately aimed towards children via the cartoon-like slapstick comedy reminiscent of the old "Wily Coyote and The Road Runner" and sorry but I gotta say it, "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.
Cary Grant had a definate talent for slapstick humor.
The drawn out slapstick gags come one after the other, each more unfunny than the last and all accompanied by the cast laughing uproariously to their own stunts.
Edward G. Robinson in a slapstick comedy??!!! Yep, and a damn funny one.
And what better fare for wartime audiences than a chance to escape the horrors with this slapstick whirlwind.
If you love cheesy lines and slapstick you'll agree this movie rocks.
This is an all around unrealistic drama/romance with some slapstick moments thrown in.
Nevertheless, Chaplin created some of the most uproarious scenes in movie history, combining his ingenious slapstick with a genuine humanity that made his character feel like more than just an object of humiliation.
This movie is a shining of example on how not to make a slapstick meets a crazy twisting plot movie.
The slapstick comedy, and jokes from Pryor and Wilder still have me laughing.
There are perhaps 2-3 chuckles here and there, but most of the "comic" material is lame slapstick.
It is so quick to play the slapstick, immature humor that it doesn't allow the humor to really build.
It's a brilliant slapstick parody of the spy/private eye genres with the Baadshah of Bollywood himself, Shahrukh Khan, hamming it up gloriously as a slightly dim-witted private detective who is innocently drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the prime minister of India.
Even worldly sophisticates like George Plimpton or Wm F. Buckley like slapstick, sophomoric sex jokes and watching drunk frat-boys being jerks as much as the next guy.
You see a lot of comic slapstick, especially from Bridgette, who kicks major butt.
"...it is unfunny and is mostly concerned with heavily contrived slapstick.
I do think that there were some good comedies in the 1970's, though, and these include Dad's Army (although after James Beck's death these were considerably weaker, relying on slapstick from Clive Dunn and to a lesser extent Arthur Lowe) but of course, this was really a 2060's comedy; altogether a different era of quality.
OK, it's not especially profound, and like so many Asian films, it suffers from an inconsistency of tone (lashings of violence, swearing, slapstick comedy and musical numbers make for a strange mix) which might alienate some western viewers, but it's fast-moving, never boring, surprising in all the right places and a definite recommendation for a fun evening's viewing.
If u watch it and replay it a few times, they add things into there slapstick comity that takes a lot of intellect to decipher.
When there car cut in half, when he was about to hit the mound of TNT, yes very "kid" slapstick, he turns around and says " isn't this a bit contrite."
I agree about a lot of the slapstick being out of place (though not even all of THAT).
Of course they would because it is based on the slapstick, pottymouth humor of the Farrelly Brothers.
While all the Amicus films had a (usually great) sense of humor, this one provides little more than absolutely mindless slapstick, and is accompanied by terrible music that will annoy the hell out of the viewer.
Mainly a slapstick comedy, it works as a mystery too, I was surprised by the murderer's identity.
We all know that Jim Varney has constructed a career out of annoying, unexceptional, and almost slapstick comedy; a deadly combination.
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