Thursday, February 7, 2008

Raising Arizona (1987)

I don't know what prompted me to see this, probably because it "looked funny" and indeed, I thought that it was. Until I realised that the rather thin story seems to exist only to move itself from one gigantic over-the-top slapstick moment to another.

From the car chases, to the exploding blue paint, to scraping knuckles on a rough ceiling during a fight in a small room, it's all independently funny, but for the most part, adds up to little in the scheme of things. The story itself is nice enough, but the two polar opposites never fully reconcile.

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