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User Comments for: Steamboat Bill, Jr.

soonertbone says...
2 years ago
This one wore thin for me. The first half is excessively slow and also felt quite dreary: the father character is so mean-spirited it was tough to enjoy the pratfalls. Moreover, the comedy here felt slight--lots of tripping, falling, etc. without much of the wit you see in other Keaton pictures. The last twenty minutes are quite a spectacle, and feature Keaton in full "Jackass stunt double" mode, but the movie doesn't feel like it has the stakes or the heft of some of the previous work I've seen from him. That said, the house-falling shot is truly incredible and is my favorite Keaton stunt. Truly bonkers.
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