Slapstick film
Slapstick films are comedy films where physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, are highlighted over dialogue, plot and character development.[1] The physical comedy in these films contains a cartoonish style of violence that is predominantly harmless and goofy in tone.[1]
Silent film had slapstick comedies that included the films starring Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd.[1] These comedians often laced their slapstick with social commentary while comedians such as Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges did not contain these social messages.[1]
There were fewer slapstick comedies produced at the advent of sound film.[1] The genre resurfaced after the World War II in France with films by Jacques Tati and in the United States with films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Great Race as well as the films of comedians like Jerry Lewis.[1]
Slapstick films
Slapstick films include:
- The Rink (1916)[2]
- Safety Last (1923)[3]
- Sherlock Jr. (1924)[4]
- The General (1926)[5]
- Big Business (1929)[6]
- Way Out West (1937)[7]
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)[8]
- Mon Oncle (1958)[9]
- The Great Race (1965)[10]
- The Party (1968)[11]
- Bananas (1971)[12]
- Sleeper (1973)[13]
- Mr. Vampire (1986)[14]
- The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)[15]
- The Naked Gun (1988)[16]
- Problem Child 2 (1991)[17]
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)[18]
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)[19]
- Baby's Day Out (1994)[20]
- Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- Happy Gilmore (1996)[21]
- Flubber (1997)[22]
- George of the Jungle (1997)[23]
- Home Alone 3 (1997)[24]
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- MouseHunt (1997)[25]
- Meet The Parents (2000)
- Super Troopers (2001)[26]
- The Pink Panther (2006)[27]
- The Pink Panther 2 (2009)[28]
- The Three Stooges (2012)[29]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f "Slapstick". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "The Rink". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Williams, Karl. "Safety Last". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Williams, Karl. "Sherlock Jr". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Townsend, Emru. "The General". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ "Big Business". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Way Out West". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Phipps, Keith. "Mr. Hulot's Holiday". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Phipps, Keith. "Mon Oncle". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "The Great Race". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "The Party". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Kaye, Don. "Bananas". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Sleeper". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Crow, Jonathan. "Mr. Vampire". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "The Gods Must Be Crazy". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "The Naked Gun". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Problem Child 2". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Brenner, Paul. "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Williams, Karl. "See No Evil, Hear No Evil". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Beday, Jeremy. "Baby's Day Out". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Armstrong, Derek. "Happy Gilmore". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Stewart, Bhob. "Flubber". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "George of the Jungle". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Stewart, Bhob. "Home Alone 3". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Stewart, Bhob. "MouseHunt". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Super Troopers". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "The Pink Panther". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Buchanan, Jason. "The Pink Panther 2". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Wheeler, Jeremy. "The Three Stooges". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
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