Review of From Soup to Nuts

"From Soup to Nuts" is an American black-and-white short film from 1928, so this one is already way over 90 years old and the director is Edgar Kennedy who worked on several occasions with Laurel and Hardy and the writer is Leo McCarey and there needs not much to be said about this 3-time Academy Award winner. So yeah this one here runs for a bit under 20 minutes and it is from the comedy duo's earlier days, still a silent movie regardless of how many sound effects and music you may hear. And also don't be fooled by the poster in color. The cast here do not really strike me as Stan and Ollie regulars, but if they are not, then the action still is the usual from them, sadly it is really all about the slapstick and the duo cannot truly use their acting talent this time. This may be a reason why it is nowhere near the most known Laurel and Hardy films, not even nowhere nearf their most known short films. And with the "usual" I mean breaking dishes, food dights and people constantly falling to the ground. It may have been fun to watch as a stage show live somewhere, but here on the screen it wasn't a memorable movie by any means and among the most forgettable I have seen from the two. It is not a failure I mean, but yeah I guess you really need to be a hardcore fan to see the value in this one. I would say it has aged considerably weaker than a lot of the other stuff Laurel and Hardy made during their really long careers. So yeah I give it a thumbs-down and also in terms of the plot, it is mostly a disappointment, if you could even say there was a plot.