If you think classic hollywood comedies are simple, you need to see Bringing Up Baby. The first time you see it you won't notice how complicated the whole thing is because it moves so fast. Jokes, pratfalls, and visual gags hit and combine and overlap and never let up, so much so that you're likely to miss a few because you laugh over them. This is the signature style of the comedies of director Howard Hawks. The secret ingredient that sets Bringing Up Baby apart from Hawks' other comedies is the combination of two of the most charismatic actors of all time, Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Not only do they have chemistry and comedic timing to spare, they also sell every line, every fall and every joke. Their charisma brings likeability to two characters that could have been very tiresome otherwise.
Any kind of plot synopsis would give everything away and sound crazy anyway, so suffice it to say that there is a leopard named Baby, a dog named George, a missing intercostal clavicle from a brontosaurus, a trip to Connecticut, a drunk Irish gardener, and everybody ends up in jail at the end. Got it? It won't matter if you don't. What does matter is that you see it because I am convinced there isn't a funnier movie in existence.
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Forget Bringing Up Baby...what did you think of Southland Tales?
Seriously, though, Meredith insisted I watch this a couple of years ago and I loved it, even though it blends together in my head with Lady Eve and Philadelphia Story. Stupid unreliable memory.
And I am actually interested in your take on Southland Tales. The review I read over on the Onion AV Club's Year of Flops made it sound like the worst movie that I immediately have to see.
Travis
so suffice it to say that there is a leopard named Baby, a dog named George, a missing intercostal clavicle from a brontosaurus, a trip to Connecticut, a drunk Irish gardener, and everybody ends up in jail at the end.
hmm. sounds like a slightly different version of ocean's 12. with cary grant instead of george clooney. and a drunk irish gardener instead of eddie izzard.
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