Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were comedic geniuses, individually and together, and their partnership was deservedly iconic and one of the best there was. They left behind a large body of work, a vast majority of it being entertaining to classic comedy, at their best they were hilarious and their best efforts were great examples of how to do comedy without being juvenile or distasteful.
'Sugar Daddies' is nowhere near classic Laurel and Hardy, later films, short and feature, had stronger chemistry when fully formed and used their considerable talents better. At this point, Laurel was much funnier and more interesting while Hardy in especially the previous two outings of theirs had too little to do. 'Sugar Daddies' is still worth watching though and is an improvement on some of their previous short films, along with 'Duck Soup' and 'While Girls Love Sailors' it was Laurel and Hardy's best up to this point.
Personally would have liked more sly wit, more scenes with Laurel and Hardy together and Hardy having more screen time.
The story is a bit busy at times and both slight and formulaic and it ends too suddenly and feels incomplete.
Laurel however is very funny, and sometimes hilarious, like as was said for a few of his previous outings 'Sugar Daddies' is worth seeing for him alone. James Finlayson is great and has nice chemistry with Laurel. Despite saying above about Hardy's screen time being too short he is at least not wasted, and he does give one of his funniest and most interesting appearances of his pairings with Laurel up to this point. There is not enough of him and Laurel together and one can see glimpses.
A good deal of the humour is well timed, hugely energetic and very funny, with everything going at a lively pace, and there is a lot of charm and good nature to keep one going. 'Sugar Daddies' looks quite good as well with some quite inventive camera work.
To conclude, decent. 7/10 Bethany Cox
'Sugar Daddies' is nowhere near classic Laurel and Hardy, later films, short and feature, had stronger chemistry when fully formed and used their considerable talents better. At this point, Laurel was much funnier and more interesting while Hardy in especially the previous two outings of theirs had too little to do. 'Sugar Daddies' is still worth watching though and is an improvement on some of their previous short films, along with 'Duck Soup' and 'While Girls Love Sailors' it was Laurel and Hardy's best up to this point.
Personally would have liked more sly wit, more scenes with Laurel and Hardy together and Hardy having more screen time.
The story is a bit busy at times and both slight and formulaic and it ends too suddenly and feels incomplete.
Laurel however is very funny, and sometimes hilarious, like as was said for a few of his previous outings 'Sugar Daddies' is worth seeing for him alone. James Finlayson is great and has nice chemistry with Laurel. Despite saying above about Hardy's screen time being too short he is at least not wasted, and he does give one of his funniest and most interesting appearances of his pairings with Laurel up to this point. There is not enough of him and Laurel together and one can see glimpses.
A good deal of the humour is well timed, hugely energetic and very funny, with everything going at a lively pace, and there is a lot of charm and good nature to keep one going. 'Sugar Daddies' looks quite good as well with some quite inventive camera work.
To conclude, decent. 7/10 Bethany Cox