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I just watched this movie. I'm a big fan of silent comedies & I've really enjoyed some of Langdon's other movies, but WOW this one was bad. It's the worst silent comedy I've ever seen. - Langdon was certainly a capable comedian, so I can only image that he was severely depressed or something. The humor is often very dark or completely out of step with the audience.
The movie is only an hour long, but it was still tough to get through. It goes wrong when the judge sentences Harry to wear a dress & take on his wife's role in the house. Langdon doesn't wear a drag outfit like Arbuckle would have. He doesn't disguise himself as a woman. He just put on a dress. He's obviously a man, but somehow every man he runs into thinks he's a beautiful woman & makes a pass at him?! It doesn't make any sense, but that's what they do. Does Harry learn something about how men treat women? No, Harry just decides to kill himself.
The suicide scenes are almost funny, but that's always going to alienate half of your audience. It's bleak humor. - And the whole thing ends with a 10 second shot of an empty room. Harry runs out of shot, the camera remains, and we wait for something else, but never get it.
The next uncomfortable moment comes when his wife returns & believes that Harry has killed himself. His wife begins to weep at his suicide. So what does Langdon do with this scene? He tries to get a laugh out of her eye make-up running from the tears?!! We're supposed to laugh at a weeping woman! - To add to this odd scene, the woman wipes her eyes & then her nose giving herself a slight smudged mustache. She continues to weep & look at the camera with the smudged make-up. -
Harry later goes on a golfing outing. Again, we have some morbid humor when they seem to disturb a grave. - Then, out of nowhere, Harry inexplicably gains the ability to make women faint with his kiss. - And then, what does he do with the gag? Nothing! One matronly woman tries to beat him up, does he even consider disarming her with his new skill. No. When he & his wife reconcile, does he end the movie by kissing the woman he loves? No. They just forget the whole thing.
This is failure on all counts. A bizarre movie. Langdon's worst.
The movie is only an hour long, but it was still tough to get through. It goes wrong when the judge sentences Harry to wear a dress & take on his wife's role in the house. Langdon doesn't wear a drag outfit like Arbuckle would have. He doesn't disguise himself as a woman. He just put on a dress. He's obviously a man, but somehow every man he runs into thinks he's a beautiful woman & makes a pass at him?! It doesn't make any sense, but that's what they do. Does Harry learn something about how men treat women? No, Harry just decides to kill himself.
The suicide scenes are almost funny, but that's always going to alienate half of your audience. It's bleak humor. - And the whole thing ends with a 10 second shot of an empty room. Harry runs out of shot, the camera remains, and we wait for something else, but never get it.
The next uncomfortable moment comes when his wife returns & believes that Harry has killed himself. His wife begins to weep at his suicide. So what does Langdon do with this scene? He tries to get a laugh out of her eye make-up running from the tears?!! We're supposed to laugh at a weeping woman! - To add to this odd scene, the woman wipes her eyes & then her nose giving herself a slight smudged mustache. She continues to weep & look at the camera with the smudged make-up. -
Harry later goes on a golfing outing. Again, we have some morbid humor when they seem to disturb a grave. - Then, out of nowhere, Harry inexplicably gains the ability to make women faint with his kiss. - And then, what does he do with the gag? Nothing! One matronly woman tries to beat him up, does he even consider disarming her with his new skill. No. When he & his wife reconcile, does he end the movie by kissing the woman he loves? No. They just forget the whole thing.
This is failure on all counts. A bizarre movie. Langdon's worst.
I avoided this movie like the plague for years and years. Then one day I happened to catch a few minutes of it on TV. I became interested enough in it to hunt down a copy of it. Well, it turns out that it's not that bad a movie. Okay, it's not that good, but it's not that bad. During those years when I was avoiding it, I saw dozens of movies that were worse. It's just a silly kids movie, but it's okay.
Its strongest asset is its star Norman Golden II. The kid is a natural on screen & he's fun to watch. Unfortunately, Burt plays it too serious at times & his opening scene is very weak. Henry Winkler's direction is too silly at times. It would have been nice if they had built up the story a little more. My guess is that some scenes were cut out of the movie, because they never explain some things & refer to other scenes that we never see. - For instance, they never tell us what happened to Devon's parents. I mean, we can guess that they are dead, but it would have been better to have him talk about it. Also, they talk about one guy getting released early after Burt arrests him, but we never find out why. - They also should have built up Burt & Devon's friendship more...So they cut out some of serious scene & left us with the silliest stuff. Oh well.
Even with its weaknesses, I kind of like it in a guilty pleasure kind of way. I mean, even when the movie is bad, it's kind of funny. There are a few ridiculous toupees in the movie (Burt wasn't alone on that one!) and in a couple of scenes Burt wears the sweatiest shirt I ever saw. - And what was up with that Twinky scene? It was like a modern mini-pie fight...
I'm not sure exactly why people hate the movie so much. There are worse movies than this every year. There are worse kids movies & Burt has made worse movies, too.
Its strongest asset is its star Norman Golden II. The kid is a natural on screen & he's fun to watch. Unfortunately, Burt plays it too serious at times & his opening scene is very weak. Henry Winkler's direction is too silly at times. It would have been nice if they had built up the story a little more. My guess is that some scenes were cut out of the movie, because they never explain some things & refer to other scenes that we never see. - For instance, they never tell us what happened to Devon's parents. I mean, we can guess that they are dead, but it would have been better to have him talk about it. Also, they talk about one guy getting released early after Burt arrests him, but we never find out why. - They also should have built up Burt & Devon's friendship more...So they cut out some of serious scene & left us with the silliest stuff. Oh well.
Even with its weaknesses, I kind of like it in a guilty pleasure kind of way. I mean, even when the movie is bad, it's kind of funny. There are a few ridiculous toupees in the movie (Burt wasn't alone on that one!) and in a couple of scenes Burt wears the sweatiest shirt I ever saw. - And what was up with that Twinky scene? It was like a modern mini-pie fight...
I'm not sure exactly why people hate the movie so much. There are worse movies than this every year. There are worse kids movies & Burt has made worse movies, too.
I'm a huge Beatles fan...But I still have to be honest. I'm not sure why some people gave this such a good review. The only way to view it is as a home movie. The music is good, but to be entirely honest, the movie is pretty bad. I've watched 4 or 5 times and it doesn't really improve much. Claims that it is 'underrated' and 'ahead of its time' are absurd. Yes, there are some good moments. "The Fool on the Hill" and "I Am the Walrus" are good, and there are a few laughs in the mix, but I think it's really for fans only. I don't even lend my copy to anyone, because I know that my friends will all hate it.
The truly shocking thing is that this was produced in the same year that they Beatles recorded "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". They went from their greatest triumph to their greatest failure in the same year.
The truly shocking thing is that this was produced in the same year that they Beatles recorded "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". They went from their greatest triumph to their greatest failure in the same year.