Charlie Chaplin Festival

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Audience Member One of the most enjoyable Chaplin shorts. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Not as funny as some of his other shorts but some of the stunts with the escalator were pretty good. You could tell that in his day Chaplin was a comedic genius...some of it doesn't translate to modern day viewers but it still is able to make me chuckle. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A pretty funny and enjoyable short. It's nowhere near Chaplin's best, but it's still pretty fun. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Not as funny as some of his other shorts but some of the stunts with the escalator were pretty good. You could tell that in his day Chaplin was a comedic genius...some of it doesn't translate to modern day viewers but it still is able to make me chuckle. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member A fun short from Chaplin. It includes some enjoyable sequences on an escalator that seems to be moving far too fast to be safe, but the best part of the film is when Charlie meets his "twin" and has no idea how to deal with it. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member At this point in his career, Charlie had slapstick down to a science. He knew the ins and outs of the kind of boisterous violence that would get an audience in hysterics, and this is one of his finest displays of that kind of comedy. However, what is improved here over some of his earlier Keystone and Essanay shorts is his use of set pieces. Chaplin wrote that the entire idea for this the film started around an escalator; after seeing a man fall on one in the city, he realized the kind of potential it had. These scenes became legendary staples of the comedy genre. There is a gag involving two look-alikes staring at each other and wondering whether they were looking in a mirror; this joke, of course, would later be more famously used and remembered by the Marx Brothers. It lacks the pathos Charlie was so close to breaching in his films, but it is a comedic frenzy. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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