Very dated Hal Roach comedy starring Charlie Chase...
This is the sort of comedy that Harold Lloyd was doing during the silent screen and doing it much better than executed here by CHARLIE CHASE.
He plays a nerdy chap who runs into all sorts of scrapes when trying to impress his equally wacky girlfriend and, at the same time, steering away from her overprotective father who doesn't want him coming near his daughter.
The flimsy story is so poorly acted (by Chase and the entire cast) with dreadful readings of every line, that it was all I could do to stay tuned in.
Some mild amusement at the situations, but everything is so overplayed that there's not a single convincing moment in the whole short.
Hal Roach should have seen that somebody toned Chase down, but maybe back then audiences accepted this sort of comedy. Doesn't pass muster today.
High point of the lame comic lines: "He gives me a pain in my--tuning fork."
He plays a nerdy chap who runs into all sorts of scrapes when trying to impress his equally wacky girlfriend and, at the same time, steering away from her overprotective father who doesn't want him coming near his daughter.
The flimsy story is so poorly acted (by Chase and the entire cast) with dreadful readings of every line, that it was all I could do to stay tuned in.
Some mild amusement at the situations, but everything is so overplayed that there's not a single convincing moment in the whole short.
Hal Roach should have seen that somebody toned Chase down, but maybe back then audiences accepted this sort of comedy. Doesn't pass muster today.
High point of the lame comic lines: "He gives me a pain in my--tuning fork."
- Doylenf
- 23 août 2008