Word: slapstickers
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...Minutes recently interviewed Jerry Zucker, writer/director of Airplane: The Movie, The Naked Gun, and Ghost. Brain Donors is his latest foray into the zany world of cinema slapstick...
Winsome Brown, as the "old blind Arab woman," displays the most depth of any character as an embodiment of the native population's suffering. However, even she cannot gain audience sympathy because a French soldier beats her to death in a staged slapstick scene...
Along the way, though, a lot of the fun goes out of this tale of a maladroit family and hapless, unwilling tax inspector. There is a dark and extremely unamusing family secret that has made the Catchprices so miserable and so horrid to one another. What begins as slapstick evolves into tragedy, and Carey does not adequately prepare the ground for this transition. In the end, a reader is left with the uncomfortable sense of having laughed in all the wrong places. If that was Carey's intention, he succeeded, but he should perhaps expect only a muted form...
Directed by Anton Quist, Our Husband, a slapstick comedy set in Nigeria, revolves around Rahman Taslim Lejoka-Brown. In keeping with Nigerian custom, which allows a man to have as many wives as he can handle, Lejoka-Brown has two--well, three actually, but Liza, who lives in America, thinks she is the only one. Her arrival in Nigeria provides the spark for comical confusion, as Lejoka-Brown struggles to maintain his home and political career...
...cleverly boosts audience approval by making the between-song skits upbeat. The actors take over from there and make an entertaining combination of slapstick comedy and childish behavior. Think Baby Muppets...