Focused on Nintendo's crossover fighting series Super Smash Bros , this chapter explores its relations with previous forms of physical comedy and group humour such as slapstick cinema, Japanese theatre and commedia dell'arte, drawing on interviews with game designers as well as oral testimonies ...
29% Critics Consensus:When not overusing sight gags, slapstick, and Richard Pryor, Superman III resorts to plot points rehashed from the previous Superman flicks. Reviews Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast Don Shanahan Somehow, through all the Lester muck, the compelling Christopher Reeve sells the melod...
The Super Mario Bros. Movieutilizes state-of-the-art computer animation to bring to life the story of Mario, a humble and extremely Italian plumber from Brooklyn who gets sucked down a pipe into the Mushroom Kingdom. Thanks to modern digital technology, you can see every fiber on Mario’s ...
Terrible Richard Pyror slapstick and boring villain aside,Superman IIIcan be enjoyed as being more than just a bad movie, this Richard Lester directed effort offering a number of things to appreciate even close to four decades later.
In terms of roles and personality, the two are just likeToad: brave, smart, helpful, resourceful, and it is very rare to see them as comic reliefs or being affected by slapstick-y situations like Mario. Unlike in the games, they are portrayed as children who admire Mario. ...
12.Slapstick of Another Kind(1982) Vestron 12.Slapstick of Another Kind(1982) Average Letterboxd Score:1.62 Stop what you are doing read this movie’sWikipedia page. You will think someone vandalized the plot synopsis and replaced it with total nonsense. On the contrary; if anything, the Wiki...
It's always been truly puzzling why the screenwriter, producers, and director chose to steer completely into goofy sight gags and outright slapstick in this third installment. Richard Lester is back to help the unstable production that falls off the rails early. However, it is possibly worth a...
From the outset, you can tell Richard Lester is predating Joel Schumacker’s “full control and off the rails” by 14 years. We start off with a full scale slapstick series of events in Metropolis, makingWest Side Storylook likeThe Godfatherin tone. Gone are the cool space opening credits...
ScreenCrush’s list of the worst films of the 1980srankedBoleroat #3.(The two films that beat it wereLeonard Part 6, which has a 7 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, andSlapstick of Another Kind, which doesn’t have enough reviews to qualify for a score.) It follows an impossibly naive young...