This is a silly, inane flick IMO. First of all I have little patience with flighty, immature, superficial, materialistic people like the female protagonist. Most of the slapstick scenes that were supposed to be humorous didn't work for me. What save this movie are the Ale & Quail club, getting drunk and shooting up the train and the "posse" scene. Hilarious!!
shareReally? I actually found the shooting scenes to be the most annoying in the film, partially because of the blatantly racist bit with the bartender, but mostly because it came off as silly and over-the-top.
However, I fully agree that both parties suck.
"Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
"Why do you find it so easy?"
"It's never BEEN easy!"
I subjected my girlfriend and her 11 & 16 year old boys to this movie last night. The 11 year old loves comedy but he wasn't hanging in there with the rapid fire chatterbox rapid-fire delivery sections that were just people talking. They did, of course, like the slapstick stuff, Joel McCrea falling down the stairs, and yes, the Ale and Quail Club shooting up the club car. But, they got tired of it after a while and found it annoying, which I thought was interesting.
Sturges often does this - he'll pen such witty dialogue but then he'll trot out the usual characters (and they were all in this one - all my favorites!) and do some sort of noisy, over the top corny thing with them. I wonder if that was intentional? did the audiences of the day like this sort of thing as broad comic relief from the "talking head" portions of the script maybe?
BPS, you are 100% correct. Rep for you! I like you was amused by the destruction of the train car. Everything else was trying too hard to be frothy and cute. Bah!
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