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The sudden and mistaken marriage of Keaton to an unlikely bride is the incident that forms the basis for the plot. Confronted by animalistic in-laws, who would be any groom's nightmare, Keaton maneuvers through their opportunism and materialism. Somehow the pieces don't quite fit together. There are episodes that are almost very funny, but not quite. Perhaps grounded too deeply to contemporary reality, I'm never able to accept the premise that Keaton would acquiesce to this marriage without any form of challenge. Perhaps that direction in plot would have produced a greater opportunity for Keaton's brand of comedy to shine.

In the world where people misunderstand each other perfectly Buster Keaton is accidentally wedded with intimidating woman (Kate Price) with even more intimidating brothers. Buster is not very welcome in the family and he gets bullied around until one of the brothers finds an envelope in the Buster's pocket. Inside the envelope is a letter that declares that he has inherited $100.000. Suddenly all the family starts to take care of Buster - they treat him good (well, almost) and they rent an expensive mansion. Then they discover that the letter wasn't for Buster, and all hell breaks loose.

The film has some quite funny and clever moments, but they are just moments. Like usually in the Buster Keaton's movies, this time the story doesn't go nowhere and random stunts (as magnificent as they are) are just random stunts in random order. Seems bit wasted opportunity, considering the talents of Buster Keaton. Still, it is fun and entertaining enough to spend your 25 minutes.

Not one of Keaton's better efforts, but there are a few laughs to be found in this wry tale of a man who finds himself accidentally married to a battle-axe (Kate Price) with four hulking brothers, none of whom take kindly to his presence in their home.

While routine in parts, this short comedy has some good moments. The story has Buster trying to deal with a crew of nightmarish in-laws, and the general understanding is that the material hit pretty close to home for him when he made this. When film-makers put too much of their own lives into their movies, it doesn't always lead to the best on-screen product, and some of the material here seems more labored than usual. The setup is quite creative, but some of the punch lines don't really come off. Still, it has some funny moments, and most Keaton fans will want to take a look.

Buster winds up married to a harridan and finds himself sharing a house with her, her surly father and four brutish brothers. They treat him abominably until they begin to think he might be well-off ... Made a year after Buster had got married and was single-handedly supporting his wife's large family, this is one of his more auto-biographical shorts, and feels rather bitter. Some very funny scenes, but not one of the genius' best.

Really love Buster Keaton, he was incredibly funny, very daring and was also one of the few in film history to make deadpan work. Love many of his feature films, with 'The General' especially being a masterwork, and most of his independent short films too ('The Scarecrow' and 'One Week' being my favourites). Not all of them though, as a few did suffer from not being particularly inspired or disjointed and cobbled together stories, such as 'Balloonatics' and 'The Frozen North'.

'My Wife's Relations' is not one of Keaton's best either, while putting it above those two only just. As far as his short films go, while above average and worth watching it is one of his lesser ones. A lot to like, but doesn't do enough with a great idea and Keaton did funnier and more imaginative work before and since. 'My Wife's Relations' is worth watching if wanting to see as much of Keaton's work and silent comedy in general, but it's not one of the essential.

There are plenty of good things. Keaton is without complaint, he has great comic timing, he shows off his fearlessness whenever he is able to and he is endearing (keep saying a lot about his near-unparallelled mastery of deadpan, but it is always impressive when something you don't usually care for is done well). His character is a likeable one in an on paper relatable predicament. Kate Price is very convincing as a formidable battleaxe of a character and Keaton regular Joe Roberts plays to his strengths very well.

It looks good with nicely framed photography throughout. There are amusing moments, especially in the second half where Keaton's bold physical comedy shines in the climax. The dinner scene has some very funny little touches and wedding nights don't often get more chaotic or hellish than the one in 'My Wife's Relations'

However, 'My Wife's Relations' did feel a bit inconsistent in the pace and laughs so it made it hard for me to fully connect with it. It does have slow spots before properly coming to life in the climactic moments and there could have been more laughs, or at least ones that felt more consistently natural than those here.

Also felt that the thin and at times contrived story brought things down as well as going well overboard on the unlikeability factor for most of the characters. While Keaton, Price and Roberts are good, the others seemed to be over-compensating.

Summing up, above average but not exceptional. 6/10

Polish in this movie sucks. I'm from Poland and I laugh when I was reading polish subs in film. There are so many mistakes in it. I think someone who doesn't know polish made it. Sometimes I had to guess what words that was meant to be. The movie is OK, I like Buster Keaton very much, but polish subs are horrible. Buster Keaton is always funny even with his stone face. I don't know why the judge was speaking only polish. Works in USA but don't know the language? The best part of the movie took place in bride's house, when Buster meets her family for the first time. Buster Keaton's short movies are even better than short movies made by Charles Chaplin. I give 6/10.

"Papa! Shut your eyes and see what I married!"

Buster finds himself accidentally married to a shrewish woman with a lowbrow family in this one. The highlights for me were in smaller moments, like Buster striking various poses during the family photograph, or gently putting a brick under a guy's head after he's knocked him unconscious with it. The big chase through the mansion while the homebrew suds overflow was anticlimactic, though it included the clever gag of rolling himself up into a carpet and hurtling down the stairs to send his pursuers flying, and it was neat to see him descending from the third floor of a building like a circus acrobat using the window awnings. Overall, however, there just wasn't a lot of charm here, and it seemed less inspired to me. It's still Buster Keaton though, and he had my full attention. Even when he's just average, he's engaging.

Buster Keaton was often one to draw creative inspiration from his personal life. Frequently his love life, which was stormy and dramatic. Here's one such example: he married his first wife in 1921, and within a year he produced this short film, about a well-meaning sucker who's torn from his happy livelihood by a sudden marriage and an abhorrent set of greedy, oafish in-laws. The fictional version involves four large, bumbling brothers, as contrasted by his real bride's two sisters (all successful actresses), but it doesn't take much effort to read between the lines.

In this case, unfortunately, the personal connection doesn't result in many laughs. Buster is unjustly abused and exploited, despite his best efforts to make nice and blend in. Even when those good intentions don't backfire, his craftiness occasionally trumping his overwhelming bad luck, he's barely given a pat on the head before catching the persona non grata tag again and the whole dance begins anew.

It all culminates in a desperate chase, as many of Keaton's capers seem to, this one through a posh mansion and across the crowded roadways just outside. That's the sizzle of the film, another example of the expressive star's knack for repurposing everyday objects in acrobatic new ways, but it's brief and inconclusive. Satisfying climaxes sometimes seem optional in these brief comedies, but this one ends far more abruptly than most. Almost as if its star hadn't yet found an answer to his own similar, private entanglement.

A broken glass, a vigilent lady, a Polish judge of peace , the marriage and a too large family, promissing letter and ...the truth. One of nice short films, not memorable but nice. Few seductive gags. And a powerful moral. So, just Buster Keaton and his universe.

A BUSTER KEATON Silent Short.

Married by mistake to a slovenly Irish-American termagant, poor Buster must learn to quickly cope with her cranky father & four bullying brothers.

MY WIFE'S RELATIONS is a very funny little film, placing hapless Keaton in one hilarious situation after another. His new spouse, played by Kate Price, is truly frightful. Highlight: Buster attempting to secure a decent repose on his wedding night.

Born into a family of Vaudevillian acrobats, Buster Keaton (1895-1966) mastered physical comedy at a very early age. An association with Fatty Arbuckle led to a series of highly imaginative short subjects and classic, silent feature-length films - all from 1920 to 1928. Writer, director, star & stuntman - Buster could do it all and his intuitive genius gave him almost miraculous knowledge as to the intricacies of film making and of what it took to please an audience. More akin to Fairbanks than Chaplin, Buster's films were full of splendid adventure, exciting derring-do and the most dangerous physical stunts imaginable. His theme of a little man against the world, who triumphs through bravery & ingenuity, dominates his films. Through every calamity & disaster, Buster remained the Great Stone Face, a stoic survivor in a universe gone mad.

In the late 1920's Buster was betrayed by his manager/brother-in-law and his contract was sold to MGM, which proceeded to nearly destroy his career. Teamed initially with Jimmy Durante and eventually allowed small roles in mediocre comedies, Buster was for 35 years consistently given work far beneath his talent. Finally, before lung cancer took him at age 70, he had the satisfaction of knowing that his classic films were being rediscovered. Now, well past his centenary, Buster Keaton is routinely recognized & appreciated as one of cinema's true authentic geniuses. And he knew how to make people laugh...

Time and again writers/directors will insert personal stories or feelings into their movies with a loose resemblance to their actual circumstances. Buster Keaton was no exception. At 25, the rising film star had fallen for one of the famous-acting Talmadge sisters, Natalie, whom he met while working alongside Roscoe Arbuckle in his Comique Studio. She had a variety of assignments at the studio, owned by her brother-in-law, Joseph Schenck, performing secretarial duties, including working on scripts as well as occasional screen appearances. Natalie's two sisters, Constance and Norma, Schenck's wife, were producing and acting in movies in the same building as Buster while their mother Peg was always keeping a close watch on her three daughters.

Buster and Natalie married on May 31, 1921, and were reportedly very happy together their first couple of years. He released his film, May 1922's "My Wife's Relations," the year after the wedding, just before Natalie delivered the couple's first baby, Joseph, in June. The short film looks at Buster, who unwittingly is dragged into a courtroom by a witness who thought she saw him break a window in the building. The witness, a hulking Irish woman played by Kate Price, appeared before the justice of the peace who only knows Polish, believing he was marrying the two. That legal bond sets off a hilarious situation where Buster has to live with her male family members, who physically abuse him until they think he's inheriting a fortune.

There had been no negative public references to how Buster got along with his in-laws. Even the comedian wrote, "In my entire life I never knew a family so devoted to one another as my in-laws were. They all worked and thought together as a team without conflict or jealousy." But the timing and the subject matter in "My Wife's Relations" raise suspicions after knowing how Buster's relationship with his wife became unsettling with the arrival of their second baby in February 1924. Soon after delivery, Natalie declared she didn't want any more children and moved into a separate bedroom apart from Buster.