Tuesday, January 13, 2009

MMM Circus

A comedy?! WHOA.
It's okay, this movie sparked a few laughs, but not as much as I thought there would be. I'm starting to think that all of Russian comedy is nothing like American comedy. This comedy is just very lighthearted and positive, but with some sad drama elements. It's almost like how there were only Comedies and tradgedies. Comedy wasn't even funny, it just meant that it had held a happy ending. Sure this movie had laughs, but maybe it's just because it's super old. Like basically humor nowadays is leaning towards the tasteless side. Jokes that end with the listener saying "AHH I CANT BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT!HAHAHhaha" or "THAT'S TERRIBLE!" It's really nice when you find stuff that's witty. I guess I appreciate it more. Huh. That's pretty much all I can think of for humor. There's: Tasteless, Witty, slapstick, and random. I shouldn't limit such a good category...
Not going to lie. I hated the main character. I just did not like her. I really did not like her singing. For some reason I got a little frustrated every time she came on screen.
I really didn't like the singing. The singing was too much. Too loud and high pitched. The movie concluded with the singing as I'm wondering, "why isn't this over yet?"
My favorite part was when the subtitles read "I LOVES YOU." And Petrovich did a dance. That's a sign of random happy feeling that I'm sure most of us would get if someone told us that.
The circus element was a different change. It didn't tell us....WAR. This just gave a more relaxed nice feeling.
Also, elephants. With Lions were nice. It gave more...I want to say 'coziness.' But that doesn't seem like the best word. But I'll use it anyway.

2 comments:

  1. I wouldn't say that Russian comedy is completely different from American comedy, you just have to remember that this film was made in the 30's, so its really just outdated as far as modern comedy goes.

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  2. I agree that Americans have a very inappropriate sense of humor, but i think its refreshing to see movies like this showing us things can be funny without that tasteless element you mentioned.

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