Word: slapstick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of Rhubarb's humor has the delicate bouquet of a subway rest room, but in spots the book is good slapstick satire and funny in a broad Broadway way. By the end, with the help of a Runyonesque assortment of low characters, including an outfielder and a lady wrestler, Author Smith somehow manages to make it into something resembling a novel. Cat lovers may have their doubts...
...technical wizardry and great expense that M-G-M lavishes on its most precious jewels. The fact that this film is basically a blob of paste will not keep it from making its rich manufacturers considerably richer. The unbeatable ingredients: lively music, Technicolor, fine feathers, romance, colossal production numbers, slapstick, four big, sure-fire stars...
Even Walt Disney's best films-barring his wonderful slapstick-have suffered from sticky taste; in this effort to be just plain folksy, that stickiness pretty thoroughly gums up the works. Disconcerting evidence of flagging inventiveness: the Gates of Heaven turn up in two numbers, and ghost-peopled clouds in a third. Yet Make Mine Music is supposed to be a variety show...
...those merry knights of the open road, are here again in another of their wonderfully wacky travelogues. And whether their destination is Zanzibar, Morocco, or Utopia, (in this case the gold-laden Klondike), the end-product is the game: a trite but entertaining concoction of gay repartee, old-fashioned slapstick, and straight Iowa corn...
...Slapstick & Surgery. In private life, many comedians are sad sacks. Not Danny. Friends who telephone his Hollywood home or his twelve-room Park Avenue apartment often hear the answering voice of a Japanese houseboy, an Italian cook, a Negro valet, an English butler or a Russian piano teacher, patiently wait for Danny to call himself to the phone...