Word: slapsticking
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...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...
Cinema: New jock city: a recent crop of movies reduces the glory of sport to insipid, inspirational slapstick...
...movie handles this paradox with comfortable predictability. Not only does the story tap into the archetypal American dream, it draws its script exclusively from time-honored traditions of red-blooded American slapstick jokes, formulaic characters, and racial stereotypes. Everything is familiar and expected, kind of like an old armchair with beer stains that has been sitting in the family basement forever--not particularly attractive or inviting, but no one ever bothers to move it to the junk heap...