johnahabig

This belongs in a serious subgenre of dark comedy along with The Great Dictator and Life is Beautiful and its goldmine seldom harvested (understandably) but films like these make me wonder how bad The Clown Who Cried could really be? Jerry Lewis is a comic genius and had a real personal reverence for the seriousness of the matter which is how dark comedies work. Look at Life of Brian. As long as satire isnt treated like a Family Guy cutaway you can make comedy out of anything Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles etc

As Yakko is the natural cartoon heir of Groucho this is the perfect show to spoof one of the greatest satires ever filmed. Polkadots? Not again

I am usually the last person to detest slow pacing and minimal dialog and that bias helped me in viewing this film even so no other film will have you more spaced out mind wandering then wondering hey wait did I miss anything rewind and the first viewing the opening scene is a big wtf moment then watching it through a couple times it's like oh now I get it and symbolism is great in a movie but blink one time and it's like what the hell is going on. Good points are made about mans conquest curiosity superstition and territoratorial man is but it's more ambiance than substance Kubricks war films are better on a psychological and sociological element and have more practical studies in human emotion on film.