Word: slapstickers
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...genius Cleese is. In the wrong hands the characters are badly drawn cartoons, the jokes offensive stereotypes and the plots a bad cross of the Keystone Kops and Three's Company. Sure, Fawlty Towers was also based on silly misunderstandings and coincidences, but it carefully built toward a manic, slapstick conclusion. In the original show you felt bad about laughing at the mistreated bellboy's broken English; now you just feel...
John Madden, Shakespeare in Love, John Madden did a beautiful job directing Shakespeare in Love. The film has been put together with so much verve and confidence that it can veer crazily from slapstick comedy to touching romance without sacrificing a whit of stylistic consistency. I truly do not believe that it could have been directed better; however, the film was just not as technically and logistically demanding as the two WWII pictures. Though it may be unfair to compare apples and oranges, the Academy can and will--such is Madden's misfortune...
...slapping him on the behind. O'Hara seizes a golf club and chases the suit around the room. Tumbling over the furniture while Zoot does summersaults, O'Hara finally ends up cracking himself with the club only to wake up attached to the ceiling. The scene, although pure, unoriginal slapstick, provides a good laugh...
...leave earth, he hops in his spacecraft and says, "A word of advice: take care of your oceans and do away with daytime talk shows." Not only does the joke fall flat, its attempt to send a serious message within the context of a film whose merit lies in slapstick comedy is simply ludicrous and heightens the unoriginality of the cliche. Such a message seems out of place...
...matching his energy and spirit as they kick and push him towards one of the black poles, set up as a gallows. Not only is the song about his contraction of the disease hysterically funny, but all of Nuccio's hand gestures, facial and physical expressions take Candide beyond slapstick. In every scene in which he performs, Nuccio is unquestionably the star, the embodiment itself of the actor who throws every part of himself, body and soul, into the performance...