Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director Terry Zwigoff, an old friend, Crumb and his family sit for an unvarnished portrait of an artist whose comic strips reveal modern man at his most screwed up. Slouching through celebrity life with the same gravity-defying posture as the guy in his famous "Keep On Truckin'" cartoon, Crumb presents no apologies or explanations for his work. "Maybe I should be locked up," he says, "and my pencils taken away from...
...twins say that sometimes people confuse them for each other, which may have comic results. But all four make sure to emphasize one thing: no matter how much they may look like their sisters, they are very different people...
Tommy Fawkes (Platt) is a comic who has been struggling through gigs in small venues for years. He is about to make his first run on the comedians' Big Time--Vegas. He follows in the over-sized footsteps of his father, played by comic icon Jerry Lewis, who is certainly not typecast as an aging...
Dying in the bright lights of Vegas, Tommy limps back to his native Blackpool as Vic Torascos, seeking his comic and family roots. The town's main attraction is an archaic amusement park where horror and laughter mingle in a wry microcosm of human existence. At this point, Dickens lends a hand in the characterization, bringing in some of the most weirdly wacky creatures since Oliver. Blackpool's population seems to be comprised entirely of elderly eccentrics left over from the "Harold and Maude" auditions...
Lords of the rosy-cheeked loonies are the Parker Brothers: Bruno (Freddie Davies) and Thomas (George Carl), father and uncle respectively to the deranged comic genius Jack, who seems to have recovered nicely from his surreal trip to the seashore. These three alone could carry the film with their physical comedy routines, evoking the genius of Chaplin and the Marx Brothers. Evans' facial manipulations make Jim Carey look like a looselipped amateur...