One of the first short films where Laurel and Hardy are a team, this is not a very good outing and soon becomes quite tedious. The routines of the two comics are quite dull and seem to go on endlessly. One reviewer writes "This is one of the earlier Laurel and Hardy films, so I'm cutting it a bit of slack in scoring it a 6. The problem is that this prison comedy, while funny, also has a couple bits where the timing is just awful and they milk gags way too long." Why cut it a bit of slack? If the film is bad, why not say so? This short was made in 1927, the same year Buster Keaton made what is considered his masterpiece, "The General," a feature length film. No one cut him any slack, because it was not necessary.
Review of The Second 100 Years
