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	Comedy Films
		Comedies usually come in two general formats: comedian-led (with well-timed gags, jokes, or sketches) and situation-comedies that are told within a narrative.
		It was typical of the films of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, W. Fields, The Three Stooges, the stunts of Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (1923), and Mack Sennett's silent era shorts (for example, the Keystone Kops).
		Screwball comedies, a sub-genre of romantic comedy films, was predominant from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s.
	www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms.html (1641 words)

	Wacky Comedy film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The wacky comedy has its roots in the low-brow popular stage, namely the circus, minstrel shows, the traveling medicine and Western shows, vaudeville, burlesque, and the music hall.
		Thus, the 1970s became the Golden Age of Anarchic Comedy; as American society spiraled out-of-control and the populace lost faith in the hypocrisies of the government and the church, the general public embraced a style of comedy that wasn't afraid to bite the hand that fed it.
		The surreal stylings of humor that mark the wacky comedy still reigned supreme in the comedy of the '90s; as long as there are sacred cows to be mocked and ridiculed, the subgenre will continue to live long and prosper well into the millennium.
	www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wa/wacky_comedy_film.html (720 words)

	Bess: Film Type
		Detective Films are usually considered a sub-type of mystery and crime films (or film noir) that focus on the central character, the hard-boiled detective-hero, as he/she meets various adventures and challenges in the cold and methodical pursuit of the criminal or the solution to the crime.
		Musical/dance films are cinematic forms which emphasize full-scale song and dance routines in a significant way (usually with a musical or dance performance as part of the film narrative), or they are films which are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography.
		Mystery Films are a particular type of crime film, exploring the unsolved crime (usually the murder or disappearance of one or more of the characters, or a theft), the unmasking of the perpetrator, and an end to the effects of the villainy.
	techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us /Group6/filmtype.htm (3703 words)

	Mr. Wacky (KOREA 2006)
		Wacky, a bland, mostly irritating comedy from newbie director Kim Dong-Wook.
		To its credit, the film improves considerably in its second half, but by that time, some will likely find that it's a case of too little, too late.
		Wacky is more or less paint-by-numbers stuff, but the people behind the camera can't seem to get the colors right.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/mr_wacky.htm (829 words)

	THE KING OF COMEDY
		THE KING OF COMEDY was Scorsese and De Niro's fourth film together and their first and only comic collaboration, which is a real shame considering De Niro has recently been showing a real talent for comedy.
		This film is, of course, given who's behind the camera, more on the dark and twisted end of the comic spectrum, but is very funny nonetheless.
		I saw this film for the first time several years ago and it struck me as one of those movies that should be more popular than it is.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsK/f_king_comedy.html (957 words)

	The Three Stooges Biography (Comedians) — FactMonster.com
		The Three Stooges were a hugely popular film comedy team of the mid-1900s.
		Stooge comedy consisted mainly of slapstick eye-gouging, shin-kicking, head-knocking, and the like.
		The group made nearly 200 comedy shorts between 1934 and 1958.
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/thethreestooges.html (235 words)

	Revok Film Prodigies Main Catalog : Rare and uncut movies from all over the planet
		Scorsese gives the viewer an in depth view into the man's life and due to Prince's wonderful role as a story teller, the tales he tells are fascinating, some silly, and some so outlandish you have to doubt their sincerity.
		Alex de la Iglesia's first feature film is about the antics of a terrorist group known as Accion Mutante who hate cosmetics, slimming diets, sperm banks, plastic surgeons, aerobics and all that continues to fuel the future world that is ruled by good-looking people.
		This is a great fl comedy sci-fi adventure that takes a satirical look at our society and is done in an exuberant style filled with extreme violence and great special effects.
	www.revok.com /alltitles.php (1248 words)

	CrAiGeR's WORST FILMS of 2004
		Gibson's film does not seem to care about Jesus the man and Biblical figure and instead seems distastefully preoccupied with the endless (and I mean endless) scenes of maddening, barbaric, tortuous and gory footage of him being beating, whipped, punched, kicked, spat on, impaled, ripped apart...and so on and so on.
		THE PASSION is a film, more than any this year, that missed real dramatic possibilities with telling a thorough and worthy story of Christ, and the film's narrow minded and heavy handed exploration of his masochistic torture is more cruel and painful for the audience than it is spiritually uplifting.
		This comedy, made by the crazy comedy troupe that gave us the insidiously funny SUPER TROOPER, BROKEN LIZARD, return to follow up their rookie film with one that is a send up of slasher and resort films.
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /2004worstfilms.htm (2120 words)

	The Wog Boy movie review, In Film Australia
		That is fundamentally the plot of the film -- Steve’s rise to fame -- and for the climax a half-witted incident involving a ludicrous political scam to eliminate the dole is introduced to finish the piece off.
		The multicultural environment of the film is a winner -- there are plenty of different kinds of people to be amused by -- although generally the characters are deadlocked into their stereotypes.
		This film is a noble effort to blend culture and humour together in a homegrown format (it feels very much Australian), although it clearly falls short.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/thewogboy.htm (526 words)

	Slapstick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Though the term is often used pejoratively, the performance of slapstick comedy, based on exquisite timing and unerring calculation of execution, character reaction and audience laughter, is considered among the more difficult tasks facing a live performer.
		While the Object from which we derive the modern term dates from the Renaissance, theatre historians argue that slapstick comedy has been at least somewhat present in almost all comedic genres since the rejuvination of theatre in church liturgical dramas in the middle ages.
		Indeed, the uninterrupted modern presence of slapstick comedy--running in film from Buster Keaton to Mel Brooks to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber and Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson--suggests it shall remain a part of the comedic landscape.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Slapstick_comedy.htm (325 words)

	Citrus: Hero of film 'Hotel Rwanda' to speak
		The films at the Ocala CFCC venues are free, but paid admission is required at the Appleton, though it is free to museum members and patrons of the CFCC Film Series.
		The movie, filmed in Israel in 2003, is about a family struggling to cope and survive after the sudden death of their father.
		The 1937 American film stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in a wacky comedy about a divorcing couple, each seeking custody of their pet dog.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/10/21/Citrus/Hero_of_film__Hotel_R.shtml (398 words)

	Crimson Celluloid :: Resident DVDvil :: Casanova
		His life has had its fair share of film adaptations and to be sure he has made appearances on any number of TV shows.
		The film is not based on any of Casanova's actual memoirs and while some of the episodes might have occurred, it is only slightly closer to the reality of the times that Ledger's earlier A Knight's Tale was.
		This film isn’t quite so anachronistic, but some of the attitudes and dialogue are, to be sure.
	www.lethaldeath.com /Crimson/Archives/ResidentDVDvil/Archives/RD_Casanova.php (784 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review DANNY DECKCHAIR Australian movie by Jeff Balsmeyer with Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke, ...
		Bouyant and lively, "Danny Deckchair" is the perfect film to see after a crummy day at the office; it's sure to lift your spirits.
		The film has a similar feel to "Muriel's Wedding" (loser leaves hometown, life changes drastically) and the footage of the town of Clarence makes the place seem like a lush small-town paradise.
		The pacing is a little wacky and the story is kind of farfetched, but engaging nonetheless.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/dannydeckchair.php (483 words)

	Hating Alison Ashley movie review, In Film Australia
		During this introduction their are a number of good chuckles and the rest of the film's humour is spread liberally through the running time.
		Certainly she wouldn't have been expecting a plethora of accolades for signing on to such a nothing role as the girl every girl wants to be, which isn't far off her real life persona anyway.
		r (effective and even slightly endearing as the film's pedantic anchor) she is the victim of some especially poor narrative devices felt predominantly during the film's closure.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/alisonashley.htm (763 words)

	Spun (2003) - A Review by David Nusair
		The two films are incredibly similar in style, with the latter taking a much more somber approach to its subject.
		The film goes to great lengths to introduce a variety of quirky characters, and with the exception of Ross and Nikki, they're a mostly cartoonish bunch.
		But Akerlund's direction is about as grandiose as the characters, which elevates the film to a level that's almost farcical.
	www.reelfilm.com /spun.htm (551 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film top10 TOP 10 FILMS OF 2001 Top 10 movies ten best films ten best list of 2001
		Few films that an entire country have taken to heart (typically France, and that's the case again here) turn out to have much going for them, but "Amélie" (or "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain") defies the odds by being all things to all people: charming, sentimental, whimsical, funny, magical, and consistently creative.
		You might question (and even balk at) their methods but, as unsettling as the film is, you cannot deny the purity of their motives.
		As the seasons change from spring onwards (hence the title; the film was shot over a one year period in a sleepy New England hamlet), so too does the relationship between Murph (Beatty) and Paul (Schreiber), developing into a genuine fondness and a believable friendship by retiree's end.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2001/top10.php3 (2262 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Wacky Comedy film
		Wacky comedy or anarchy comedy is a genre of cinema using nonsensical, stream-of-consciousness humor which often lampoons some form of authority.
		The '50s saw a general decrease in wacky comedy, although some works of Frank Tashlin (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
		)and Jerry Lewis (The Bellboy) definitely had some anarchic elements, as did the big budget comedy epics of the '60s, especially It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, "The Great Race", and "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines".
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Wacky_Comedy_film (922 words)

	Punks on Film
		At best, teen films were keen on portraying the wacky friend of the protagonist as an eccentric type, with weird haircuts and punk/new wave posters on their bedroom walls.
		The film was hard to follow, and downright silly, but it did not cast punks in a particularly unfavorable light.
		This film focused on the first Sex Pistols US tour in 1978 and also featured performances by the Dead Boys, X-Ray Spex, Sham 69, Generation X and the Rich Kids as well as a famous interview with Sex Pistols “bassist” and punk legend Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, conducted in their bed.
	www.gothpunk.com /articles/punks-on-film.html (1256 words)

	Jane Seymour Does Comedy - Dr. Quinn Times
		We had to take away their film and destroy it," says Seymour, who plays Christopher Walken's wife in the comedy Wedding Crashers, opening Friday.
		Seymour says the reason she wanted to do Wedding Crashers was that it's the first real slapstick comedy she's done in years.
		She's getting to exercise her comedy chops in her next film, Blind Guy, in which she will play a wacky psychiatrist.
	www.thedqtimes.com /pages/castpages/other/janeseymourcomedy.htm (582 words)

	My Man Godfrey
		A wacky screwball comedy about a 'forgotten man' who is adopted as a butler by a young socialite and her family, when she finds him in the city dump, whilst on a scavenger hunt.
		Deed's Goes to Town was another hot screwball comedy that year, and its director, Frank Capra, was already considered the master of the art form.
		Lombard's acting career took off in 1934 with the comedy, Twentieth Century, where she was able to demonstrate her comedic timing.
	www.angelfire.com /film/robbed/godfrey.htm (574 words)

	the new and sorta improved thefilmexperience.net
		The film is nothing special and often apparently confused about its own raison d'etre, there are good sized laughs.
		Too much for one film to handle, I think, though the story is lovingly handled throughout and moving as a result.
		Though the film is relentless in its unfunniness, I will give limited props to Terry Crews who manages to make one line reading in particular --upon discovering that the chick is not really a chick and is not really white either, funnier than it had any right to be.
	www.thefilmexperience.net /Reviews/04comedy.html (851 words)

	Mixed Reviews - I Heart Huckabees - reviewed by Gabriel Shanks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A comedy exploring the practicalities of existentialism, nihilism, and transcendentalism may not, at first blush, sound much more fun than a root canal.
		Pushing audiences to think has normally been the province of the art house; in Russell's film, the elitism of philosophy is eliminated, giving voice and vocabulary to everyday characters grappling with the elemental turmoil of our psyches.
		Ultimately the message of the film is one of universal connectivity...that we are all connected as part of the fabric of the universe.
	www.mixedreviews.net /maindishes/2004/ihearthuckabees/ihearthuckabees.shtml (756 words)

	1741 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This title sequence was created for James Cameron’s new 3D IMAX film which explores the notion that if deep ocean life does not require sunlight to exist then perhaps life exists in other water bodies in the solar system.
		A seamless integration of the Nickelodeon Films logo with the establishing shot of the barn leads the viewer into the open door where the mysterious typography is found.
		To emphasize that this is not an animated film, 1741 also produced a live action shot of the three children featured in the books and composited them into the piece as a high con design element.
	www.1741films.com (4929 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Holy Smoke! (1999)
		The film opens with beautiful shots of Kate Does India, a melange of colors and textures over which our buxom, rosy-cheeked heroine floats, basking in the glow of her post-Titanic cinematic world tour.
		Unlike her first film, Sweetie (which Holy Smoke emulates in its desperately giddy tone and colorful, hyper-real style more than the more subdued Campion films, The Piano and Portrait of a Lady), the strong-willed heroine's confusion doesn't drive the story--and neither does much else.
		One press-release description of the film says Ruth and PJ "throw everything they've got at each other" in their struggle for dominance.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/h/holysmoke.htm (1153 words)

	Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
		A film for anyone who has been in an unhealthy relationship and wasn't too sure how to end it, Totally Sexy Loser is a bittersweet comedy hit that leaves us with an insightful take on identity and a healthy dose of hope.
		The Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is an essential and vital part of Tampa Bay and west central Florida's cultural landscape.
		Since its founding in 1989, the Festival has become one of the most important gay and lesbian film festivals in the country, and has been at the forefront of championing and programming films that challenge, entertain, and enlighten.
	pridefilmfest.com /press08112003.php (954 words)

	Eye Weekly - Onscreen - 01.27.00
		After being poorly planned by perpetual university student Jones (Mark Burgess), a kidnapping is executed by his two roommates, Phil (Danny Strong), who needs a serious cash injection in order to continue his studies, and Ed (Sean Devine), who just wants in on something even half as exciting as watching his favourite TV cop show.
		Early in the film, the Eye's missing daughter pops up as a bratty hallucination and urges Daddy to help the nice serial-killer lady.
		Of the film's many strange digressions, the most disorienting features Al's TV-chef dad (Henry Winkler) fantasizing about Cooks, a Cops-like "reality cooking" show in which a chef and assistants invade the kitchens of unwitting citizens and cook them haute cuisine.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.27.00/film/onscreen.html (1237 words)

	ROMANCING THE STONE
		It's a guilty pleasure filled with high adventure, wacky comedy and quirky, well-developed characters.
		The film makers create a tongue-in-cheek mixture of action and romance, as well as sizzling chemistry between Douglas and Turner, that is pure movie magic.
		There's never any doubt how the film's going to end, but the road to the finish is filled with several surprises that make this experience a real cinema treat.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsR/f_romance_stone.html (258 words)

	2006 Philadelphia Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A wacky comedy from Australia, this offbeat farce finds a small town plagued by a series of murders being committed in tribute to 70s disco favorites The Village People.
		The bumbling but endearing local cops (Gary Eck and Akmal Saleh) are perplexed, and eventually the devastatingly handsome detective (Anthony Mir) from the big city of Sydney is assigned to crack the case.
		Actors Eck, Saleh and Mir are known as the "Jim Carreys" of the Land Down Under and their goofy antics show that the Aussies have a knack for being just as gloriously tacky, delightfully cheesy and downright funny as their American counterparts.
	www.phillyfests.com /pff/templates/film_details.cfm?id=2887 (226 words)

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