Honestly, and as an avid Abbott and Costello fan, I never cared for their movies. Their personalities and humor carry much better in the radio format they began in, and I think this is because A&C are at core wordplay comedians. Sight gags don't work too well with them. Audio slapstick goes over perfectly, but they're not required to sell it visually.
Plus, with their radio broadcasts, they were a lot more free to just interact with each other while reading the script, such as when they occasionally jump each other and follow up with "oh, that was your line!". I think there's one skit I have where the two of them and the man who later became their show announcer are having a comedic argument, and Costello gets out of order on the script. Pandemonium ensues for a few moments while they try to stumble back to the correct place, and Costello doesn't even hesitate to fill the confusion with ejaculations of "Who talks? Who talks?", and the audience is rolling in their seats.
But then on film their skits sort of smooth out and calm over, and in the process become sort of stilted. Their jokes are still funny, but it's sort of half-expected, and only really makes you smirk, or chuckle at best.
If you enjoyed "...Meet Frankenstein" at all, then I strongly encourage you to see if you can find recordings of their radio broadcasts, especially the Halloween broadcast—which I actually located on YouTube and posted here. One of my favorite one-liners came from this skit.
Abbott: Costello, look, there's a casket in the corner, and it's got rubber sheets in it. Lugosi: Yes. I line all my caskets vit rubber sheets. So de rain can't get in. Costello:*timidly* ...why? Lugosi: My bier is a dry bier.
I say of all the first X-Men movies that X2 was the best one. Once you get away from the origin stuff a lot more characters have room to breathe and show off, and the plot is a lot bigger and stuff. Also, Nightcrawler.
Third one . . . not so good. Triple the character count with half the running time, and it's just not gonna happen.
AnimeArchAngel
Tveiter Tot (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 06/22/11 | Reply
That works great! Thanks for watching with me.
Allamorph
Spiritus Memorae (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 06/21/11 | Reply
Honestly, and as an avid Abbott and Costello fan, I never cared for their movies. Their personalities and humor carry much better in the radio format they began in, and I think this is because A&C are at core wordplay comedians. Sight gags don't work too well with them. Audio slapstick goes over perfectly, but they're not required to sell it visually.
Plus, with their radio broadcasts, they were a lot more free to just interact with each other while reading the script, such as when they occasionally jump each other and follow up with "oh, that was your line!". I think there's one skit I have where the two of them and the man who later became their show announcer are having a comedic argument, and Costello gets out of order on the script. Pandemonium ensues for a few moments while they try to stumble back to the correct place, and Costello doesn't even hesitate to fill the confusion with ejaculations of "Who talks? Who talks?", and the audience is rolling in their seats.
But then on film their skits sort of smooth out and calm over, and in the process become sort of stilted. Their jokes are still funny, but it's sort of half-expected, and only really makes you smirk, or chuckle at best.
If you enjoyed "...Meet Frankenstein" at all, then I strongly encourage you to see if you can find recordings of their radio broadcasts, especially the Halloween broadcast—which I actually located on YouTube and posted here. One of my favorite one-liners came from this skit.
SomeGuy
Canadian Liaison (Team) | Posted 06/21/11 | Reply
I say of all the first X-Men movies that X2 was the best one. Once you get away from the origin stuff a lot more characters have room to breathe and show off, and the plot is a lot bigger and stuff. Also, Nightcrawler.
Third one . . . not so good. Triple the character count with half the running time, and it's just not gonna happen.