If you've been missing 2D animation in the theater, here's your full-on smorgasbord of everything expressive, fluid, and absolutely looney. It's a love letter to the Clampett style, both in terms of wild takes and squishy cuteness. I could gush and gush about every artistic choice made, from the dynamic camera positioning in tense scenes, to the beautiful hand acting of the main "villain", to the constant call-backs and in-jokes for Looney Tunes fans (but not at all in any way that's distracting). Just a joy from beginning to end.
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Elmer Gantry 1960
It doesn't go nearly as hard as the novel does, but it still makes it point, painting "tent revival" religion as phony and as much a production as any medicine show or carnival, peddling the "cheapest, first-rate" cure-all there is. It's also honest about fundamentalist religion's stoking of fear and hatred in people who haven't yet gained the critical thinking skills to combat against it, manipulating and feeding off of them as easy marks. There's a lot about the religious revivalism of the 1920s that feels eerily similar to today.
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No Time to Marry 1938
Why this doesn't get played every Christmas on TCM or whatever is beyond me. Its got a lot goats, Mary Astor talking smack to cops, and a climactic slapstick fight framed with a wreath emblazoned with "PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TO MEN". If this played every Christmas season, I'm sure there'd be some families with a ceremonial matchstick tower on top of an empty beer bottle.
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Her Wedding Night 1930
A fun, prototype screwball comedy. Clara Bow is a delight as always, and there's lots of fun bits of slapstick in places where you might not expect it. Worth a watch!
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