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 less 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:

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Slapstick". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "The Rink". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ Williams, Karl. "Safety Last". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ Williams, Karl. "Sherlock Jr.". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ Townsend, Emru. "The General". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Big Business". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Way Out West". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  8. ↑ Phipps, Keith. "Mr. Hulot's Holiday". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  9. ↑ Phipps, Keith. "Mon Oncle". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  10. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "The Great Race". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  11. ↑ Deming, Mark. "The Party". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  12. ↑ Kaye, Don. "Bananas". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  13. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Sleeper". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  14. ↑ Crow, Jonathan. "Mr. Vampire". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  15. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "The Gods Must Be Crazy". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  16. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "The Naked Gun". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  17. ↑ Deming, Mark. "Problem Child 2". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  18. ↑ Brenner, Paul. "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  19. ↑ Williams, Karl. "See No Evil, Hear No Evil". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  20. ↑ Beday, Jeremy. "Baby's Day Out". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Derek. "Happy Gilmore". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  22. ↑ Stewart, Bhob. "Flubber". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  23. ↑ Deming, Mark. "George of the Jungle". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  24. ↑ Stewart, Bhob. "Home Alone 3". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  25. ↑ Stewart, Bhob. "MouseHunt". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  26. ↑ Deming, Mark. "Super Troopers". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  27. ↑ Deming, Mark. "The Pink Panther". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  28. ↑ Buchanan, Jason. "The Pink Panther 2". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  29. ↑ Wheeler, Jeremy. "The Three Stooges". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
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