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| | Combustible Celluloid film review - The Honeymooners (2005), John Schultz, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, dvd ... |
 | | In the 1950s, "The Honeymooners" helped establish the most rancid cliché in American comedy -- the irresponsible husband with the long-suffering, much smarter wife who always forgives him for being a selfish jackass. |
 | | Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows pulled it off because 1) they gave a certain tenacious chemistry to their characters' head-butting marriage, 2) Gleason had a gift for finding humor and humanity in unsympathetic roles, and 3) it was a simpler time, when idiotic get-rich-quick schemes weren't quite such a tiresome excuse for cheap laughs. |
 | | Directed on auto-pilot by John Schultz (Like Mike, Drive Me Crazy), this Honeymooners is the mind-numbing, half-hearted culmination of every comedy of the last 50 years that considered its ending a happy one when a woman who deserves better takes back a insincere man who has sabotaged the relationship then apologized, but hasn't changed. |
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