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 fewer 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: Louis de Funes 1964
1910s
1920s
- Safety Last (1923)[3]
- Sherlock Jr. (1924)[4]
- The General (1926)[5]
- Big Business (1929)[6]
1930s
- Way Out West (1937)[7]
1950s
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)[8]
- Mon Oncle (1958)[9]
1970s
- Bananas (1971)[10]
- Evil Roy Slade (1972)
- Sleeper (1973)[11]
1980s
- Airplane! (1980)
- The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)[12]
- Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
- Mr. Vampire (1986)[13]
- Spaceballs (1987)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- The Naked Gun (1988)[14]
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)[15]
- Christmas Vacation (1989)
- UHF (1989)
1990s
- Home Alone (1990)
- Problem Child (1990)
- Problem Child 2 (1991)[16]
- Repossessed (1990)
- The Addams Family (1991)
- The Naked Gun 2 1/2 (1991)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)[17]
- Addams Family Values (1993)
- Army of Darkness (1993)
- Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
- Dennis the Menace (1993)
- Hocus Pocus (1993)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
- Surf Ninjas (1993)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
- Baby's Day Out (1994)[18]
- Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- The Mask (1994)
- The Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994)
- The Santa Clause (1994)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
- Happy Gilmore (1996)[19]
- Spy Hard (1996)
- Flubber (1997)[20]
- George of the Jungle (1997)[21]
- Home Alone 3 (1997)[22]
- MouseHunt (1997)[23]
- Mr. Magoo (1997)
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- Wrongfully Accused (1998)
2000s
- Meet The Parents (2000)
- The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
- Scary Movie (2000)
- 2001: A Space Travesty (2001)
- Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
- Scary Movie 2 (2001)
- Super Troopers (2001)[24]
- Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
- Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002)
- Scary Movie 3 (2003)
- Night at the Museum (2006)
- The Pink Panther (2006)[25]
- Scary Movie 4 (2006)
- Epic Movie (2007)
- Meet the Spartans (2008)
- Superhero Movie (2008)
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
- The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
2010s
- Furry Vengeance (2010)
- Grown Ups (2010)
- Vampires Suck (2010)
- Johnny English Reborn (2011)
- Jack and Jill (2011)
- The Three Stooges (2012)
- Thats My Boy (2012)
- A Haunted House (2013)
- Scary Movie 5 (2013)
- Grown Ups 2 (2013)
- Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
- A Haunted House 2 (2014)
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
- Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
- Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Drive & Gaim: Movie War Full Throttle (2014)
- Vacation (2015)
- Superfast! (2015)
- Grimsby (2016)
- Fifty Shades of Black (2016)
- Woody Woodpecker (2017)
See also
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Slapstick". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "The Rink". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Williams, Karl. "Safety Last". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Williams, Karl. "Sherlock Jr". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Townsend, Emru. "The General". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ "Big Business". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Way Out West". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Phipps, Keith. "Mr. Hulot's Holiday". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Phipps, Keith. "Mon Oncle". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Kaye, Don. "Bananas". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Sleeper". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "The Gods Must Be Crazy". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Crow, Jonathan. "Mr. Vampire". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "The Naked Gun". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Williams, Karl. "See No Evil, Hear No Evil". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Deming, Mark. "Problem Child 2". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Brenner, Paul. "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Beday, Jeremy. "Baby's Day Out". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Armstrong, Derek. "Happy Gilmore". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Stewart, Bhob. "Flubber". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Deming, Mark. "George of the Jungle". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Stewart, Bhob. "Home Alone 3". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Stewart, Bhob. "MouseHunt". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Deming, Mark. "Super Troopers". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ↑ Deming, Mark. "The Pink Panther". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 10, 2013.