Advantages: Genuinely funny Disadvantages: Overly staged at times, just 20 minutes long
...won't have heard of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, probably the most famous comic duo in existence. Although they both died a good few years before I was born, I remember watching them on our black and white television as a child and loving their silly, slapstick behaviour. And watching them again after a number of years Laurel and Hardy-free, I have been reminded of their immense talent for comedy, bouncing off one another to create laugh after laugh. ... ...As anyone familiar with Laurel and Hardy will know, there isn't a great deal of dialogue - the comic value of their work relies on their idiotic behaviour (obviously they started out in silent film, so had to be able to convey their meaning without words). There is a great deal of falling over, being in the way of falling objects and generally making a complete mess of whatever they are involved in. Oliver blames Stan, but really, he is just as incompetent. ...
sunmeilan 04.07.2009
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