Sleeper (1973)

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The laughs sleep through this one
by The_MOW in The_MOW Blog

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""Miles Monroe" (Woody Allen) was a clarinet playing health food store owner in 1973 who was frozen after slipping into a coma. Two-hundred years later, he wakes in a police state where people "perform" sex in an "Ograsmatron" booth and robots have replaced household help and man's best friend as well. He is hired to help the Underground to destroy this police state's "Leader" and comes across poet/artist "Luna" (Diane Keaton), whom thinks "Miles" is trying to destroy the lifestyle she has grown accustom to. The first thing you will notice in this movie, which will be hard not to, is that a lot of sight gags just comes at you at a continuous pace. However, unlike "Airplane!" the jokes produce few laughs. In fact, many of the slapstick comedy you've seen before, only set up differently. Many of the other jokes are quite original, but I just didn't laugh at them. Another problem with some jokes were that they were dated. There are a lot of visuals in this film, mostly sight gags, and ... " [More]

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