This movie reminds me of the later Laurel and Hardy film A PERFECT DAY, though the Stan and Ollie film was an awful lot funnier. Part of this is that Chaplin's character is not exactly the "nice guy" he played in later movies and part of it was the choppiness of the film. It was a lot of little vignettes pieced together during a days' outing with the wife and kids. The delicate and artistic touch of his longer and later films just isn't there and, while okay, it's difficult to score this movie as anything other than average. In particular, the very poorly done sequence of the rocking boat was way overdone and and poorly assembled as well. The boat is simply rocking too wildly--most ship-wrecks rock much less. And, at the same time, the water in the background is way too calm. It just looked sloppy.
Review of A Day's Pleasure
