Word: slapstickers
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...Beatles loaded 39 friends and bit actors into a yellow bus and drove through the English countryside for three weeks, improvising dialogue and filming whatever struck their fancy. The result, often played to a soundtrack of their latest songs, was a disjointed series of daydreams, nightmares, cloudscapes, reveries and slapstick skits ending with the foursome prancing down a spiral staircase in white tie and tails in a takeoff of a 1930s Hollywood musical. "We didn't worry about the fact that we didn't know anything about making films" said Beatle Paul. "We realized years...
...funny moments are provided in Lynn's nightmarish seduction by Ian Carmichael playing a guards officer type as impeccably drunk as he is dressed. But Smashing Time has too much bashing to be smashing-and is added evidence that slapstick has replaced satire in the once fine and delicate art of British comedy...
...time to stop the Czechs. Having established their consummate skill at making tragic and comic cinema using home-grown themes, they have now cracked the code of the West with a solid slapstick spoof, Lemonade Joe. The film is from the same bag as such American satires as Cat Ballon. Yet it holds its own by offering an uncompromisingly wild style and a woolly scenario, plus some of the most unlikely and unmotivated songs since Gene Autry hung up his guitar...
...slapstick and punchlines of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum return to this film too. But the funniest seem to precede the grisliest here...
...Michaels' direction shows an especially sure touch for farcical slapstick business, nice details of external characterization, and the blocking of any largish group. He shows less command when he has a small, intimate scene at hand, but when he errs, he does so in the direction of emphasizing frenetic movement, which has a special comic advantage over the static set-ups so familiar to Harvard stages...