Laughing Gas

A chaotic early Chaplin film for Keystone, and as with most of his movies for Mack Sennett's studio, it's not exactly subtle. The little comic spends most of his time throwing bricks and kicking arses, and it's clear that everyone involved was winging it. There are a few laughs, and the action is too frantic to get boring.

This was another early Charlie Chaplin film that he also directed. Since it's for the Mack Sennett Keystone Studio, expect lots of punching, slapping, and throwing of bricks. In Laughing Gas, The Tramp is a dentist's assistant who sometimes acts like he's his boss. One of the ways he takes advantage of that is when he steals kisses from one of the lovely female patients by using one of those tweezers to pull her face toward his. And she seems to like it! That was one of the funniest scenes for me. There's also a funny fight/chase between him and Mack Swain that causes Swain to go guess where! So on that note, Laughing Gas is recommended and is available on a DVD collection called "American Slapstick".

I think Chaplin is over rated because i have saw couple of movies but none of his act entertained me. I was constantly looking at watch to when it will end. But i must say that this was somewhat better than his films i watched earlier. But my suggestion is avoid it if you can. Do something fruitful. This is my 1st review. The sole purpose of writing the review is to save your time as i havewasted mine.

A so-so Chaplin entry where the material is not as good as it should be. The interaction with Chaplin and the pretty dental patient is good, but the film as a whole is crying out for better slapstick. 6 out of 10 stars.

I've seen quite a few Chaplin shorts from early in his career and I've noticed that his early stuff (done for Keystone Studios) is pretty dreadful stuff. Unlike his wonderful full-length films from the 20s and 30s, the films from 1914-1915 are incredibly poorly made--having no script but only vague instructions from the director. In most cases, the films had almost no plot and degenerated to people punching and kicking each other.

This short is quite a bit better than the norm. While at times the plot degenerates to a lot of punching and kicking for absolutely no reason at all, the film also has a few decent laughs as Charlie pretends to be a dentist. Nothing outstandingly funny, but compared to the generally boring stuff he did for the studio, it's a big improvement.