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Because there isn't much plot to speak of, the success of the Pudding depends on the actors' ability to make their one-dimensional characters consistently funny and interesting. Fortunately, through clever stage business and vocal skill, most of them are successful. Fish is hilarious as repetitive Ramses Pointacross...
...lyrics, by Javerbaum, are consistently funny, and --surprise!--heavy on the puns. Especially clever is the revue of Romanized Broadway songs spoofing everything from West Side story to Grease to "XLII street," and for the gladiator rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." ("For it's chew, chew, chew on a person...
...inventive set, too, cries out money, money, money. The scenery spans from the Roman court to an Egyptian crypt; the paint is lavish and the settings are clever. The Broadway backdrop advertises "Guys and Gauls," "Camel Lot," and "Lyre on the Roof." (Get it?) a few technical touches add just the right flair: an erupting Mt. Vesuvius and an electric scoreboard in the Colosseum ("Lions 1, Christians...
...criticizes AFARM for rejecting "rational and intelligent discourse" in favor of ill-conceived humor. Unfortunately, by caricaturing homosexuals as promiscuous perverts, Lat himself as promiscuous perverts, Lat himself sacrifices reason and intelligence in a weak effort at writing a clever rhyme. Jordan Schreiber...
They were very clever. They would have an advertisement from the `50s or they would have Michelangelo's David or they would have a porno shot. Seeing those posters really clicked to me that while this is great and I really love what they're doing, I would like to make this movement more accessible because film is a much more accessible medium. What they were doing was great for the specific streets in San Francisco at that time, but with films you can travel around the world and bring forth the message that would otherwise just be kept...