Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions in the sprung rhythms of everyday speech. Levinson has found the perfect cast for this comic elegy; each actor's face is a subtle caricature of ordinary futility. In fact, most of the movie is pretty funny, if you can convince yourself that these people are a whole lot of somebody elses...
...subtitled "101 Ways to Remake Vertigo." But Shepherd, as the straitlaced ice queen, and Willis, as the wisecracking clod-with-a- heart-of-gold, are a screen team to treasure. Despite some straining this season, the writers have managed to deepen and develop their relationship without losing the comic fizz. And no other series takes more chances. The actors frequently step out of character for asides to the camera, and the show may break completely from format on a whim. One of this season's episodes featured a seven-minute Gene Kellyesque dance number. Another was an elaborate parody...
...ever produced. They wrangled over every aspect of politics and culture, and as the memoirs of the survivors show, after a half-century, sentiments have still not cooled. Particularly Hook's, who now regards the Partisans as the "Radical Comedians" because "there was something truly comic about their self-conscious role as political revolutionaries and cultural radicals; about the disparity between their profession and their performance...
...RAISING Arizona had been made only three only years ago, you'd likely be standing in line tonight to see the special added showing of the film at the local Bijou. This crazed, self-referential comic scamper through the New South hopes to defy categorization, yet fits neatly into American cinema's newest genre: the Crazed, Self-Referential Comic Scamper through American Culture Movie...
Every character, great or small (and truth to tell, they're all small), has the juice of comic originality in him. In jail with Hi, one convict strums Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the old banjo. The bounty hunter -- he's real, not just a Hi dream -- is a demon road warrior, a warthog from hell who grenades rabbits and torches roadside flowers, can catch flies between his filthy fingers, and has a secret tattoo of Woody Woodpecker on his left pectoral. Gale and Evelle (lots of gender-bent names in this picture) lecture Ed on the importance...