Word: slapsticking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From touting others, he has turned to writing his own epic tragedy, The Spanish Armada. At a rehearsal, everything goes wrong. The actors drop whole swatches of dialogue as turgid and unplayable. The bit players upstage the leads, who swat them. A sword fight is a model of slapstick ineptitude. A Minister of State (Petherbridge) comes out, stares at the audience long and balefully, and departs; he is, Mr. Puff explains, contemplating politics but discreetly not discussing it. When at last the battle with the armada unfolds, it is a clash between two tiny, hand-manipulated boats, reminiscent...
Simply put, You Never Can Tell is INXS in 2 little space. For the INXS, the primary offenders are Dolly (Gerri Robinson) and Phil (Frank A. Lawler), the rambunctious 18-plus-year-old family children. While their antics are admittedly funny, they climb over furniture and exaggerate mannerisms beyond slapstick into the realms of sheer disbelief. Unfortunately, they are not alone. All of the characters seem to be climbing over furniture at sometime or another...
CURRENTLY PLAYING in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room, Love, Sex and the IRS is as incongruous a play as its title suggests. It is both slipshod slapstick comedy and farfetched farce about two roommates, their girlfriends, their landlord, one of their mothers and an IRS agent...
Faced with a script that relies heavily on the juxtaposition of real horror and slapstick humor, Molotiu has taken the easy way out by emphasizing the gags and glossing over the play's dark side. In one sense, his choice was apt, for although his cast is wonderfully comic in a self-conscious way, most of the actors here seem incapable of any real depth...
...bitter, inner-city high-school. Certainly, this is fertile ground from which to draw interesting characters and, perhaps, even social commentary. But, instead of making any kind of statement or even really using these ingredients to create unusual characters, the makers of this movie invoke over-used stereotypes and slapstick humor. The slum high-school is just a convenient if colorful backdrop for Goldie Hawn's dizzy smile and the players simply big, nondescript things to root...