Slapstick film

Slapstick films are comedy films where physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, 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.^[1]

Silent film had slapstick comedies that included the films starring Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd.^[1] 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.^[1]

There were fewer slapstick comedies produced at the advent of sound film.^[1] The genre resurfaced after the World War II 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 as well as the films of comedians like Jerry Lewis.^[1]

Slapstick films

Slapstick films include:

• The Rink (1916)^[2]
• Safety Last (1923)^[3]
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)^[4]
• The General (1926)^[5]
• Big Business (1929)^[6]
• Way Out West (1937)^[7]
• Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)^[8]
• Mon Oncle (1958)^[9]
• The Great Race (1965)^[10]
• The Party (1968)^[11]
• Bananas (1971)^[12]
• Sleeper (1973)^[13]
• Mr. Vampire (1986)^[14]
• The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)^[15]
• The Naked Gun (1988)^[16]
• Problem Child 2 (1991)^[17]
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)^[18]
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)^[19]
• Baby's Day Out (1994)^[20]
• Dumb and Dumber (1994)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)^[21]
• Flubber (1997)^[22]
• George of the Jungle (1997)^[23]
• Home Alone 3 (1997)^[24]
• There's Something About Mary (1998)
• MouseHunt (1997)^[25]
• Meet The Parents (2000)
• Super Troopers (2001)^[26]
• The Pink Panther (2006)^[27]
• The Pink Panther 2 (2009)^[28]
• The Three Stooges (2012)^[29]

See also

• List of slapstick comedy topics

Notes