Review of Safety Last! (1923) by Jeremy S — 06 Jan 2008
My first Harold Lloyd film and I'm both impressed and underwhelmed at the same time. Lloyd's style doesn't compete with Chaplin and Keaton, but on its own merits, it's quite funny and clever.
Lloyd seems to love the comedy of misunderstanding and misdirection, and it's a tremendous compliment to his writing that there's some fresh angles to be found here even for a modern viewer (with decades of sitcoms behind him).
The high-point of the film, of course, is the skyscraper climb and famous clock-face sequence which is where this casual comedy becomes compulsively watchable.
This review of Safety Last! (1923) was written by Jeremy S on 06 Jan 2008.
Safety Last! has generally received very positive reviews.
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