Word: slapstick
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...suave. His 1989 Miracle (also known as The Chinese Godfather and Mr. Canton and Lady Rose), a kind of remake of Frank Capra's Lady for a Day, revels in supple tracking shots, elegant montages and a witty use of the wide screen. An American viewer may find the slapstick interludes overdone, but they are no harder to take than the scenes between dance routines in Astaire-Rogers movies. And it's in his production numbers-those double-time, intricately de-signed ballets of fists and feet-that Chan is unique, as star and auteur...
...beginning there was Mack Sennett and he created the Keystone Kops. And he said let there be slapstick, and there was slapstick, which was good then, but seems dated now. And Sennett begat Buster Keaton, who did physical comedy better than anyone ever did, with the exception of Harold Lloyd, and whose works are still fine (see "The General," "The Navigator" and "700 Brides"). And Sennett also begat Chaplin, who learned from him but went well beyond to become the finest comic artist ever, the Little Tramp who mixed laughter and tears. And Chaplin created "City Lights" and "The Gold...
...Just Like a Woman" draws no laughs compared to the flamboyant fun of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and the slapstick humor of "Mrs. Doubtfire." This serious film tells the true story of Englishwoman Monica Jay (Julie Walters), a lonely, fortysomething Middlesex housewife who becomes involved with Gerald (Adrian Pasdar), an American, a heterosexual and a sometime transvestite...
Call ahead and reserve your tickets. The Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre production of "Noises Off" is a crowd-pleasing slapstick hit. Michael Frayn's well-written farce within a farce is miraculously pulled--and pushed--off by a talented company in its final play of the summer...
...maid and his step mother amusing. The others seems to follow his lead when playing out marital strife caused by infidelities, both real and merely desired. The result is a series of quasi-serious conflicts rather than the farcical situation comedies of the script. Stokes attempts some slapstick with his rejected advance on his prudish wife, but de Lima dulls the exasperations of their frustrated marriage by taking her role too seriously. Only Roemer always sustains a humorous bite in her more emotionally challenging scenes...