Slapstick film explained
Slapstick films are comedy films using slapstick humor, a physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, practical jokes, and mistakes are highlighted over dialogue, plot and character development.[1] The physical comedy in these films contains a cartoonish style of violence that is predominantly harmless and goofy in tone.
Silent film had slapstick comedies that included the films starring Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd. These comedians often laced their slapstick with social commentary while comedians such as Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges did not contain these social messages. Slapstick is about uninhibited action and timing, which may include being made to look foolish or to act with tom foolery.[2]
There were fewer slapstick comedies produced at the advent of sound film. After World War II, the genre resurfaced in France with films by Jacques Tati and in the United States with films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Great Race, starring the stoic, aloof and mild mannered Buster Keaton, also known as "The Great Stone Face", as well as the films of comedians like Jerry Lewis.
Slapstick films and television series
Slapstick films and television series include:
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
- Black Dynamite (2009)
- Bibi Blocksberg (2009)
- Suck (2009)
- The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
- (2009)
- (2008)
- Superhero Movie (2008)
- Meet the Spartans (2008)
- (2007–2008)
- Back at the Barnyard (2007–2011)
- Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)
- Epic Movie (2007)
- Bratz (2007)
- Shrek the Third (2007)
- Evil Aliens (2006), horror-comedy
- Scary Movie 4 (2006), horror-comedy
- The Pink Panther (2006)[73]
- Night at the Museum (2006)
- My Gym Partner's a Monkey (2005–2008)
- Catscratch (2005–2007)
- Camp Lazlo (2005–2008)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- Brandy & Mr. Whiskers (2004–2006)
- Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004–2006)
- White Chicks (2004)[74]
- Evil Con Carne (2003–2004)
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003–2007)
- Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" (2003)
- (2003)
- The Cat in the Hat (2003)
- Scary Movie 3 (2003), horror-comedy
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (2002–2006)
- Larryboy (2002)
- Home Alone 4 Take Back To Home (2002)
- Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002)
- Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000), horror-comedy
- Joe Dirt (2001)
- Zoolander (2001)
- Tomcats (2001), gross-out, sex-comedy
- Super Troopers (2001)[75]
- Scary Movie 2 (2001), horror-comedy
- The Fairly OddParents (2001–2017)
- The Ripping Friends (2001–2002)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius (2001)
- Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
- Rat Race (2001)
- Shrek (2001)
- La Tour Montparnasse Infernale (2001)
- (2001)
- I Am Sam (2001)
- Big Money Hustlas (2000)
- Teacher's Pet (2000–2002)
- Scary Movie (2000), horror-comedy
- The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
- 102 Dalmatians (2000)
- Meet the Parents (2000)
2010s
2020s
See also
Notes and References
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