Unless you find it hilarious to see pie after pie after pie after pie after pie after pie after pie thrown at various people. And then a few more pies thrown in for good measure.
Plot In a Nutshell: A failed boxer and his manager (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) get tangled up with an ornery employee of the L. A. Pie Company, resulting in a massive pie fight in the city streets.
Why I rated it a '5': As stated above, unless you count pie-flinging as hilarious comedy, it gets old pretty quick. One guy hits another guy in the face. He goes to retaliate but hits an innocent bystander instead. He or she takes umbrage with this act and chooses to retaliate in turn. And so on and so on. I will give them credit for the sheer size and scope of the now legendary pie fight (reportedly at least 3,000 pies were used and possibly more), but how many 'people throwing pies' scenes can one watch before it all just runs together?
This is not high-brow humor, and it's not even inventive, as Americans had been watching pie-in-the-face routines for years at this point. The difference was that there were so many actors involved in this particular pie fight, but so what? Much has been made about the restoration of this previously-lost film, but having now seen it, I am underwhelmed. Much ado about nothing.
5/10. Would I watch again (Y/N)?: Not likely.
Plot In a Nutshell: A failed boxer and his manager (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) get tangled up with an ornery employee of the L. A. Pie Company, resulting in a massive pie fight in the city streets.
Why I rated it a '5': As stated above, unless you count pie-flinging as hilarious comedy, it gets old pretty quick. One guy hits another guy in the face. He goes to retaliate but hits an innocent bystander instead. He or she takes umbrage with this act and chooses to retaliate in turn. And so on and so on. I will give them credit for the sheer size and scope of the now legendary pie fight (reportedly at least 3,000 pies were used and possibly more), but how many 'people throwing pies' scenes can one watch before it all just runs together?
This is not high-brow humor, and it's not even inventive, as Americans had been watching pie-in-the-face routines for years at this point. The difference was that there were so many actors involved in this particular pie fight, but so what? Much has been made about the restoration of this previously-lost film, but having now seen it, I am underwhelmed. Much ado about nothing.
5/10. Would I watch again (Y/N)?: Not likely.