Review of His Girl Friday (1940) by Susan N — 04 Dec 2007

There really aren't any good comedies around at the moment. If you don't like Will Ferrell, lazy spoofs, or the gross-out 80s teen revival, you're not going to find many laughs in the cinema.

It's refreshing, then, to go back to when comedies were actually funny; and funny for their intelligent dialogue as opposed to second rate sarcasm, and funny for their inventive slapstick as opposed to someone slipping on a puddle of spunk and falling on his arse. The speed and intelligence of His Girl Friday puts modern comedies to shame.