The Laurel & Hardy Reboot | Forgotten Failures
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On this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back the failed 1999 reboot of Laurel & Hardy.
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I'm susprised they never considered using some of the scripts Stan Laurel wrote after Oliver Hardy passed away.
Right?! You'd think that this would be the PERFECT time to use them! I can only hope it's because they couldn't secure the rights to use that material from Stan Laurel's estate or whatever, and not just because of sheer incompetence.
They more than likely ignored them in favor of trying to promote someone else’s writing career, believing they might not have been “modern enough” without a hot new writing talent.
I blame Peter Molyneux.
As long as they get Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly to perform them. Wow Larry you pop up everywhere!
that would be the smart thing to do. but people in the movie industry arnt smart just look at the sequel trilogy.
You can't remake something that was once in a lifetime...but you can preserve their films and shorts for future generations....And the man who did Oliver Hardy, my goodness he nailed the voice!!!!
The Actors who played Laurel and Hardy do a phenomenal job at recreating there characters. It's just a shame that they were placed with a poorly written script in terms of story.
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321bytor spelin pleece
Nope. They are awful. Two hacks cannot accurately portray comic geniuses. You're absolutely wrong.
@@fjccommish I'm not saying they stand to what the original duo were but as far as acting goes they did a pretty amazing job at getting the movements down to a tee.
I agree but why in modern time? It should've stay in 1940s. Smh
"Hey, is the framerate off?"
"Nah man, this is Africa."
I miss the frames down in Aaaaaaafrica.
@@mahna_mahna bwahahaha
Stan & Ollie with Coogan and O’Reilly was a great movie and both actors did a fantastic job recreating Laurel & Hardy’s mannerisms.
"I'll miss us when we're gone."
The difference was that the Coogan movie qas biographical.
It was not a great movie. It was a decent movie with a with inspired performances and some impressive behind the scenes moments. But overall it was mediocre drama that in days gone past would have been a two-part “television event”.
so will you
Damn right! This film is a truly great drama. Brought my best buddy to tears (don't tell anyone i told you) and the special edition Mediabook became a permanent addition to my Blu-ray collection.
It's kind of weird how this and The Three Stooges ended up trying to reinvigorate their respective brands with movies that as sloppy tributes, but with weird plots, and impersonations that almost get it right.
The actors they got to play the Stooges in that were all skilled and knew how to portray the characters well, it’s good that they stuck to their guns and got impersonators to play the stooges in that instead of getting Jim Carrey to play Curley like they originally intended
I agree with y'all. It's just odd to realize it isn't the only one to do this.
As a Stooges fan, I was reluctant to watch the movie. Years later it was on TV and finally watched and I was really impressed on how good the Farrelys handled and even updated the characters. Maybe if we wouldn't have had such disdain for a reboot just for the nature of them, we would at least have a good series of new shorts today instead of just one underrated movie.
I thought The Three Stooges 2012 movie was pretty decent.
@@OM19_MO79 They had to put raunchy material in it. I thought it failed to get a new generation of kids into the stooges
So, is this film the reason why the characters of Laurel & Hardy, could be seen around Universal Studios back in the 90's? No joke, that's a childhood memory, there are pictures of my brother and I together with some of the fictional characters that would be walking around the park - like Alvin from Alvin And The Chipmunks, Laurel & Hardy were either handing out, or just messing around with a cart of pumpkins, and I remember two women as the Xena warrior Princess and some other chick (I got my picture taken with them, besides Alvin). Man, the 90's Universal Studios was the best time. Don't get me wrong, I like Harry Potter, but FUCK ALL THAT SHIT they added to Universal Studios - bring me back "Back To The Future: The Ride", "Terminator 2 3D", "E.T. The Ride" and a bunch of other stuff I may have been able to see or ride once or twice, but will never have a chance to again now :( Also The Mummy: The Ride, that was really awesome!
No. This was made at the dawn of the 90s, way after they were established at Universal. And also, Universal had nothing to do with this film whatsoever. But a small budget, independent company called Coast Entertainment.
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I just love how in every single review, there's always something positive in his tone. It just makes the reviews that more endearing and a breath of fresh air to watch.
Thanks so much!
I agree. There's too much excessive negativity in most movie reviewer channels on RUclips. It's refreshing to see someone that doesn't make his videos drenched in cynical, mocking irony.
@@HatsOffEntertainment Where's Part 3 of your original Laurel and Hardy mini-docs, after "The Feature Presentation"?
Laurel and Harry are my favourite tv stars of all time, Recreating anything is just never the same as the original, Seeing as we will never get to see the originals anymore I would have liked to have seen a series of these movies in the 80's.
Those impersonations were absolutely uncanny. Fair play.
These two guys can never ever be "rebooted" forget about it.....
I watched Perfect Strangers every week as a kid and loved Balki. I did not recognize Bronson Pinchot as Laurel until you pointed him out.
Cousin laddy!! Haha same 😊
He was a great Balki. He was an awful Stan Laurel.
That show was the worst
Perfect Strangers was great. I still watch it.
Stan's accent is hard to do, He was from Ulverston which was Lancashire at the time, Cumbria now. The accent is half way between the 2. Then add 50 or so years in the US. Coogan had a head start being from Lancs. I'm from Preston, my grandad moved to the States in the 60's he had a very similar accent. The humour is mostly Stan's as well something else he brought from Lancashire. Someone from the US would struggle to replicate it unless they had lived here for a while.
The accents are the best done item in this.
I never know why they try to reboot old franchises or series, but like keep the characters locked in the time period they are in but then thrown in modern times.
Like laurel and hardy were from the 20s to the 50s, yet you want to do a reboot where you keep everything about them, even their outfits, but put them in modern times.
They would make more sense if they made them as dumb time travel movies, where they come and interact with future nonsense. Or they would make more sense if they rebooted it, yet kept the time period of the movie and characters the same (like setting is in the 30s and characters are too).
It just comes off as really dumb and flops nearly every time
Because damnit it worked for the Bradys
Today I learned that Balky and Chuck from Ernest made a Laurel and Hardy movie in South Africa in 1999. The fever dream that is 2020 continues...
I knew i recognised them from somewhere.
If only 2020 really had just been one big fever dream.......
Four-months-ago you could not have known just how absurd it would get. And 2020 has three more months remaining to fuck with us.
The gods must be crazy.
Gailard Sartain was on "Hee Haw" for most of its run, and on some episodes of the post-divorce "Sonny and Cher Show".
I feel dirty inside that this was the way I was actually introduced to Laurel & Hardy and really loved this film as a kid and went on to watch the classics, without it I might have never discovered them
Well then , at least this film did something good by bringing you to THE REAL LAUREL AND HARDY
I'm not sure how you 'reboot' a deceased comedy duo. Isn't that just copying likenesses and material? Material I understand, but you can't have a 'new' Laurel and Hardy, it doesn't make any sense.
I absolutely agree. But considering how Hollywood keeps making reboot after reboot due to lack of new, original ideas and preferring cashing in on old brands, I wouldn't be surprised to see another L&H reboot in the near future.
When I was a kid there was a full hour of L&H at 6:00 every Saturday morning. On school days my mom had to drag me out of bed at 7:00, but on Saturdays I was up at 5:45, fixing a bowl of cereal to munch on while I watched L&H. Laughter is a great way to star a day.
This honestly seems like a waste of two extraordinarily perfect performances. It does seem like it would have worked better set in the early 20th century though. Their anachronistic outfits make them seem more like fish out of water than like goofballs.
Plus Hardy’s moustache would probably turn a lot of heads in the modern age
@@mrcritical6751 Heads not worth bothering about if they're that easily outraged. Let hotheads burn themselves out.
I think they probably didn't make it a period piece because it would have cost more money.
@@PongoXBongo 🙄
@@dildonius Pretty childish of you.
Watch Stan and Ollie. Reilly and Coogan absolutely nail the performances along with the chemistry and love the two had for each other.
I remember seeing this on VHS in the early 2000s and really enjoying it. It seemed to disappear after that though. I could never find the video anywhere again after that. I think the actors did a great job, and I think that making it more of a tribute or celebration of the original than trying to pass it off as the original characters played by different actors was a good idea. I still hold out hope that someone will make Stan's last scripts, either with a similar tribute Laurel And Hardy act or perhaps they could adapt them for a new double act. Stan doesn't get anywhere near the respect he deserves as a comedic genius. People just think of him as a performer, but they forget that he wrote and/or directed so many films too.
The thing most attempted recreations of L&H get wrong is the incredible sense of timing they had in their gags. Part of this was Stan's extra work in editing the films and timing laughs in tryouts. The boys also mostly underplayed their parts, without the frenetic pace of most silent (and later sound) comics -- ideas occurred slowly to Stan. You could watch his face change as a thought percolated through his brain. Ollie's slow burn was his trademark, as well as breaking the fourth wall. This slow underplayed style made the eruption all the funnier when it came. Look at the way they would build up a gag, play with it, then make the payoff. Take the scene in "Towed in a Hole" where Ollie is painting the mast and Stan is trapped behind it belowdecks. You know what is going to happen, eventually, but the process of getting there is not rushed. And there is no tricky dialogue necessary. No complex plot, no jokes, no slapstick for the sake of slapstick.
It's not enough to look like them; the trick is acting and thinking like them, and for directors and writers to understand that. Harmon certainly never did.
The two actors playing Laurel and Hardy were very good in this video. But no one can replace the real Laurel and Hardy.
It looks like the two lead actors did a good job. In so many movies, it's the writing that falls short. We don't REALLY care if the CGI is less than great, if the writing and performances are great. These clips made me want to see the movie.
These are always such high quality videos, man. Thanks for keeping us all entertained during all this.
My father is a DIE HARD Laurel and Hardy fan and so I grew up watching them nearly every day. I recall this film as a child, I must have been 10 years old and already extremely familiar with the original films and shorts. I thought it was a fun and silly movie, the actors nailed the characters but the plot was definitely odd... It felt like a Scooby-Doo plot starring Laurel and Hardy... But I still enjoyed it as a tribute and a fun new experience with L&H.
Watching it again recently I am even more impressed by the portrayals. The characters feel right but the plot alienates the overall feel. If you have an open mind and accept it as a silly little movie with lovable characters you'll enjoy it, don't take it too serious, we will always have the original L&H films to enjoy.
This movie was not "all" that bad! It was a fun film all and all and it was good to see "they" were trying to revive the Laurel & Hardy characters for a new generation. The actors playing Stan & Ollie were not bad at all! It wasn't a very good script but I wish more movies with them as the Stan & Ollie characters would of been made.
Gailard Sartain does a spot on Georgia accent, difficult for non Southerners to ace it but he got Ollie's accent perfectly
+BigBlueFan1987 IKR,and he's an native oklahoman.
My late pal Chuck McCann was a friend of Stan's, and the many commercials he made with the great Jim McGeorge were a tribute blessed by Stan before his passing. Chuck said privately that Mr. Laurel would roll over in his grave if he had seen what Larry Harmon made of their legacy, and I can't help but to agree. Here you can see Chuck performing as Ollie with another actor I'm sure many of you know and love. ruclips.net/video/b1YiGo_KYFY/видео.html
I remember this on VHS when I was little. I think I watched like the first 15 minutes with my family and my parents turned it off in disgust. I'd classify it at as a truly "Dumb" Dumb Comedy, as opposed to L&H's "Intelligent" Dumb Comedies. Looking at some of these clips, the actors seem capable and there could have been something to some of the joke premises . . . but this really suffers from Laurel's lack of direction, and let's face it: Stanley's comic direction made Laurel and Hardy great. Bronson's comic timing is off as he plays it like a TV sitcom, and this is due to poor timing. Consider the joke here when Hardy says "you're going to protect me" and Stanley immediately replies "but who's going to protect me?". The actual Stan Laurel would have put a well placed comedic pause in between those two lines so that Stan could look around with a puzzled look on his face as he slowly worked out the mathematics of the first statement, maybe he'd start as if to say something then stop, and then go back to thinking before coming to the second line of realization. Sartain is good but completely lacks Hardy's believable anger and frustration, which serves to heighten the situational comedy. Jim Varney and Stan Laurel had the natural comedic timing as actors for their characters . . . Pinchot attempts but misses, sometimes by a lot. Also, it is just weird (in a not funny way) to have Laurel and Hardy characters wandering around in clothes from the 20s/30s in the 1990s. It's like setting Hamlet in a 90s megacorporation where everyone is wearing business suits but Hamlet is walking around in Elizabethan clothing . . . actually that might be funny, but only because I've augmented the absurdity and put thought into it, unlike the 0 thought that went into L&Hs costume choice in this movie.
These two actors were FANTASTIC! Talk about nailing it.
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Same here!
I love the line that this came when a bunch of big screen reboots of classic comedies was all the rage. The irony is that none of those reboots was at all successful. Comedy reboots are nearly impossible to get right, you can't replace the timing/delivery/charisma of a comedian.
I’ve never heard of this one. Thank you for another great video. This is becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep up the good work
gailard sartain one of the most underrated entertainers of our time .
Mazeppa was in this? Holy cow...
@Herbert B. Bondsh "HEADQUARTERS, THIS IS CAR 3!! REQUESTING BACK-UP!! WE'RE BEING ASSAULTED BY..............eggs."
Here's the thing I don't get about these kinda reboots. They take 30/40's humor and simply repeat it in the modern age. They even go as far as make them dress the same. So even if the performance and jokes land, there's a disconnect. They are already out of time. If they really want to do this, why not do it as a period piece?
This was a bad idea from the start: There is only "one" Laurel and Hardy! That being said, I did enjoy the biopic "Stan and Ollie" that came out in 2018. I felt it was well cast.
I though there was two of them?
@@ventarfield7115 that's why he said "one" in quotation marks.
@Glen M Why is there a need to inadequately copy perfection and past greatness. Why endless remakes, re-boots and rehash? Why not something new? Toodifficult and risky eh?
Me too. They should try The New Adventures Of Laurel and Hardy again with Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. It could work extremely well now.
@@CineScarborough No, as great as Coogan and Reilly were in Stan and Ollie I think making a new Laurel and Hardy makes more sense as a biopic than a reboot.
Speaking of Sgt Bilko, I'd love an Almost Cult Classic episode on the film! It's been one of my faves since I was a kid and was surprised it was a bomb. Always wondered if I was the only fan of it!
Make the bad man stop!
I liked it too - Steve Martin and Phil Hartman were funny in it
Everybody Army sing! "I CAN HARDLY FEEL MY LEGS!!! (I CAN HARDLY FEEL MY LEGS!) DO ME A FAVOR AND KILL ME NOW!!! (DO ME A FAVOR AND KILL ME NOW) SOMETHING SOMETHING RHYMES WITH LEGS!!! (SOMETHING SOMETHING RHYMES WITH LEGS) MY LIFE IS OVER ANYHOW..." Yes, a fave in our household as well. A few catchphrases have stuck with us over the years, such as "One. We're going for, One." Funny film.
i saw it in the theatre with a buddy in the army...he died ...i liked it but not like he did ha
Sgt Bilko was hilarious!!! I tried watching the show after the movie and I just had the hardest time trying to figure out why people hated the movie.
This channel is growing fast and with good reason. Awesome content!!
You've got a new fan and a new subscriber for that matter. Keep on making these awesome docu-minis and brief looks at forgotten stuff. It's very entertaining.
Bronson Pinchot is so good with accents. I listened to his narration of a series of books called the Grimnoir Chronicles, and he is so great with all the various characters' nationalities and accents.
Very well made video. You show appreciation rather than criticism, a very good review!
You're right, I had no idea this ever existed. I did love Gailard Sartain in all the Ernest movies though...my favorite being "Ernest goes to Camp", he's frigin hysterical.
Now I want to see this film, if only to watch the leads and see if they maintained their impressions as well as in the clips. Their affection and respect come through their performances. I remember the cartoon from when I was young and the plot synopsis certainly sounds more like a Saturday morning cartoon than a 90-minute feature. They might as well have brought in Scooby and the gang to round out the cast.
I agree! I'm curious to see this film now too.
It's the time period that throws me off. They are dressed as they were in the 1920's while being in the 1990s. The movie would have worked better if the story too place in the 1920s or whenever most of their original movies took place. Also, they could have done a "fish out of water" style of story with them time travelling to 1999 and them learning how to adapt but failing to do so.
That reminds me of The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel. The Bradys were still dressed like it was still the 1970s while everyone around them were dressed like the 1990s. They also referenced different episodes of the series in both films.
@@melissacooper4282 my head cannon about that was their house was in a time bubble that kept repeating
you simply cannot reboot laurel and hardy.
There's only one laurel and hardy pair
Stan and Ollie is a much better Laurel and Hardy film. It's a great tribute
For sure!
And it's really nice that it focused a lot more on their twilight years.
Seeing this video made me want to watch the film which I just got done watching as I make this comment it’s free to watch on amazon prime. Regardless of it not being such a well received film I still found it enjoyable and entertaining yeah it’s not Laurel and Hardy the actual people but them as characters portrayed by actors I still liked how the actors did in there portrayal. Maybe not like the actual comedy duo but I would watch this film again if I ever felt in the mood for it. Thank you for showing me this film exists.
this movie is fine and works well for what it is. I didn't watch a lot of original Laurel & Hardy as a kid, so this was sorta my introduction to the duo though I had heard about them before the movie. It's a competent film for what it is, it may have it's flaws but it works well and I found it funny.
Really enjoying these videos. Cheers!
I liked this film and it honestly was my introduction to these two.
Being a longtime Laurel and Hardy fan, this was something I definitely took with a grain of salt when I first rented it from a local Blockbuster Video in the Fall of 1999. It definitely was a tough thing to swallow, but yes like you mentioned, it felt like a movie made for the fans like myself who even at the time of being 16 years old hadn't seen anything new or rereleased for the classic shorts/features. I remember that it was put together by the same people who worked on the Ernest films and thought, well that's clearly my loyalty showing as an Ernest fan, I may enjoy just about anything that those people put out. Although to this day, I still haven't managed to watch (And I'm sure you will include or feature this in a future video!) 'Dr. Otto and The Riddle Of the Gloom Beam'!
I eventually recorded this off HBO when they did a random afternoon showing of it during 2001 I believe.
I was going to ask if that was *Gailard Sartain* as Hardy 😮 Bronson Pinchot?!
I'm wondering if a anyone can confirm it but I had heard that Jim Varney was supposed to play Laurel but was diagnosed with the lung cancer that would eventually kill him when production was to begin.
Jim Varney was a huge L&H fan and a master mimic. I’d be willing to bet he was at least considered.
@@HatsOffEntertainment The existing historic materials do not support the idea that Jim Varney was slated to play Stan Laurel, or that he stepped out of the role because of the onset of his cancer. I cannot find an original source that makes this claim -- all places I find that make the claim appear to be copied from each other. In an late 97/early 98 interview with Bronson, he mentions the role - www.littlereview.com/getcritical/interviews/pinchot.htm. But Varney didn't have any idea he had cancer until August 1998 during the filming of Treehouse Hostage.
It feels more like a 3 stooges movie and laurel and hardy happened to be in it
The 3 stooges movie was a little better lol
It feels like they stole the script for an unmade Abbot and Costello movie and replaced then with Laurel and Hardy
It feels more like a Scooby-Doo movie than a Laurel and Hardy movie.
@@JaredGriffiths2000 ironically there was a Scooby-Doo episode where Laurel and Hardy were featured in it. I don't know who provided their voices for that cartoon.
@@mrcritical6751 nail on the head
Thanks for making this video. This may be my answer to a vague memory I've had that may be of them or Abbott and Costello. Sometime in the 90's I recall a new series that came out that was presented in black and white and was either Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello. I remember anticipating to watch it and caught the first two episodes and only watched half of the 3rd. It was only ok and it only lasted for maybe a month or so before it was cancelled. I've never been able to verify this so I may be confused or mistaken but I feel it did exist.
Merton and Hayes ... Rob Reiner presented it as if they were a vintage comedy duo
@@christopherhoffman201 Holy smokes! Thank you so very much for that info. It's been bugging me for many years and anyone I mentioned it to did not have a clue as to what I was talking about.
Me my nephews and my dad watched it wen it aired on hbo or showtimes , we loved it, maybe the story cudve been better and the movie budget shudve been bigger. But both actors did a good job portraying them
I think that if they did a simpler plot for this film than it would've been decent. Or they could've based it from a short story by Ray Bradbury.
I will say that the guy playing Stan here is doing a better impression than Steve Coogan did in Stan and Ollie, or at least the same callibre (I thought Coogan’s voice often sounded like he had a bad cold)
To be fair Coogan was playing Stan Laurel not the character of Laurel so he had to tone it down slightly
Same, I honestly felt he was too old for the role in the flashback scenes when they were younger and didn’t act enough like Stan, they should of had this guy and the guy who played Oliver in this movie play them again for those scenes, what a shame. :(
Ever see Chuck McCann do his Laurel and Hardy impersonations....simply amazing.
Those actors were surprisingly good. It's a shame I haven't seen the movie yet.
I think Bronson Pinchot was a seriously underrated actor. His parts in Beverly Hills Cop and especially True Romance are pretty brilliant. You should review another forgotten failure starring him and John Larroquet, Second Sight.
I prefered the tribute movies, themselves. I remember watching a video/movie of the last days of L&H, made in the UK. And both characters were very good. (Even though "Hardy" was lying in bed, most of the time) It was about Laurel refusing(at first) to visit Hardy, who was lying in bed about to die. Just found it "Stan" is the name.
Big screen remakes are AWFUL ! Cringeworthy!! As far as signing away those rights: YES! They should be returned to Stan and Ollie’s families.
I was waiting for this to come out. I thought it was coming out soon. Here it is to my surprise!
There's a new copyright law that says his family may be able to regain the rights without the current holder legally being able to object or say no out right. It is already shaking things in Hollywood up concerning long running franchises starting in the 70s and 80s. Something which may give some hope for those concerned that the current copyright holder for some R rated franchises like Alien for example now being owned by Disney (originally 20th Century Fox). It's something like the writers could buy back the rights to something they wrote 35 years later, it would also mean Marvel could put all of their characters in the MCU by the end of the 2030's if it's still going by then (well they can already but the solo movie rights to Hulk and Spider-man still belong to Universal and Sony respectfully).
I always remember a commercial for windshield wipers I used to see in the late 1980's that had Laurel and Hardy lookalikes, and I remember thinking it was actually them, and being confused as to how they were still around and still looked like themselves.
you can never do a movie about stars like them with even the greatest actors impersonating them. you can only do Documentaries... same for: the Three Stooges, Andy Kaufman (as we saw), Abbot and Costello, W.C. Fields, Rodney Dangerfield...these are but a few add your own.
"I bet you don't even know how to eat an hors d'oeuvre" fucking destroyed
It’s not often I discover something I never knew happened in film or television.
Even though I was not aware about the original duo of Laurel and Hardy, I loved this movie as a kid. I want to thank you for reminding me of it, it surely brings up amazing memories :)
I remember seeing this as a kid but I swear to god I thought it had Nathan Lane and Lee Evans. But I think I might have mixed that up with mouse hunt. I swear I remember seeing them in outfit though
Mouse Hunt is criminally underrated.
@@ReglazeRX Hell yes it is! It wasn't until recently that I found out that a lot of people don't like it. That movie is comedy gold.
@@NavySharkz It gets no love in a lot of circles.
Such a shame.
@@ReglazeRX Fo real! 🤔😔
DAMN you weren’t kidding about staying tune.
Awesome job sir!
A real coincidence, right?! Glad you enjoyed.
@@HatsOffEntertainment And I was right about it being informative, I had just assumed from the few clips that I had seen that it was a Made-For-TV movie, I had no idea that it actually went to theatres. I would have been about 9 and I can't remember seeing any sort of ad for it around that time.
Blues Brothers were more adequate follow up into L&H's legacy.
"Blues Brothers 2000" was a dumpster fire.
I remember wen this movie hit the cable movie channels. Yeah, it was a bad idea, but I give credit to Sartain and Pinchot for their performances. They did a great job at capturing Laurel and Hardy.
I've never seen this before. Those impersonations are sensational.
The end "Follow that limo" gag is stolen straight from a Pink Panther film - except in that case, it's Peter Sellers' immediate nonplussed reaction that sells the joke. Here, the delayed reaction rather kills it.
The two leads do seem particularly good, though. It's just a shame about the film.
That routine was done MANY TIMES before Pink Panther...
Loved this video! Well done!
(I’ve never seen the actual movie, and confused it with the biopic I also haven’t seen)
Did you ever get into Japanese manzai? It’s traditionally 2-man comedy duos like L&H or A&C.
They also do something called conto, when those duos do small skits.
It’s so close to these 2 ancient duos that it’s almost shocking.
I watched this movie after watching a lot of the original shorts and movie and I really do get why this movie rubbed people the wrong way. There's just something off about how Stan and Ollie (or their nephews) are portrayed and this and it doesn't really catch the same sort of love that the two characters had. For one thing I noticed Ollie didn't come off as having the same sort of arrogant charm to him. He was this big tall man who had a refined Southern charm to him and while he did act like a jackass at times you can't help but love him because of how he used his words and spoke; he was smooth. Stan was sweet natured but ditzy and didn't speak that much. When he did he held the same sort of charm that Ollie did thanks to his mannerism and, yes I will admit this, his amazing British accent. A Southern American gentleman and a Brit. It was wonderful.
When I watched this movie, I felt that Stan talked way too much and his dizziness was played too thick and Ollie came off as just more cranky than anything else without any of the charm. They were more OBNOXIOUS than funny and they didn't play off well with the world they were in. As you mentioned in the review, the story feels more like an Abbott and Costello plotline and it does. A lot of the movies that Ollie and Stan were in were more grounded in reality with the situations amped up thanks in part to their actions. Sure, they had shorts where something weird happened but it wasn't the main focus of their library. If anything, I could see the two trying to get into some business venture since Ollie was always trying to find ways to make money usually using Stan as a testing dummy for the hard work while he handled the words and maybe that's just it. The two didn't feel like they were the driving force in the story. And the whole explanation that the two were their nephews didn't make sense and was pointless. It didn't add anything it and feels like it was dropped out of nowhere as an excuse to avoid questions and criticism from the audience. It just didn't work sadly.
Granted, even with all of this, it's not the worst thing I've seen and I enjoyed your retrospective of it going into the production of it which was more interesting than the movie itself. The more I think about it, the more it comes off that this may have done better as a straight period piece comedy movie or if they did update it, they could have handled the idea of the main characters be their nephews and actually have that be a part of the plot rather than something that is forgotten a second later.
I saw this one on TV when I was about 10 year old, and while I didn't enjoy it as much as the direct to video Ernest movies, it was still fun for what it is. Back then I assumed Laurel and Hardy were just characters, so I didn't think much of a new movie being made about them. Looking back the actors did what their best, but they clearly didn't have the budget for this type of grandiose plot.
I was excited when I heard of this movie and I watched it with my kids, whom I had raised to appreciate Laurel and Hardy. The film flopped with us, too although we were impressed with the performances. When the Three Stooges movie came out, I didn't bother. I think the classic comedians should be left alone. Those who really pay homage to them the most are those who preserve their films so they don't whither away. After nearly a century, (some of the silent films surpassed 100 years) they stand on their own and are still gaining new fans as technology makes them available to more people.
I loved the actors for Stan and Ollie in it too, (ESPECIALLY Stan! ^^ ) but everything else other than that? Yeah, I didn't like it very much. It just seems weird for them in a modern setting, they didn't really have enough screentime I feel like and focused the screentime way too much on the other unnecessary side characters, and etc. but yeah, it was alright to me. It kinda stinks it wasn't that good meaning they never continued the films. I would of loved to see more of those two guys portraying them again. (I honestly liked them portraying them ALOT better than the actors in the 2018 film, but no offence though, it's only what I think. :) )
I recently purchased the complete collection of Laurel and Hardy, including their foreign releases. They were absolutely brilliant and can’t wait to see their work in entirety.
The PICK A NUMBER FROM ONE TO TEN, is an Abbott & Costello bit....
I never knew about this film. It's interesting! I have barely seen much of laurel and Hardy even though Stan laurel grew up in my town, Lived in my street and even has a statue on my street.
Sometimes the best things in life are the things you remember.
I didn't even realize it was Bronson until you said it. He nailed it
Oh em god, I worked on For Love Or Mummy.
No way, really? 😊 I hope these two actors will get to play Stan and Ollie again if the reboots like this ever gets revived again someday, they were really good! 😊 (ESPECIALLY Stan, he’s my favorite! 😊) These two actors I think were ALOT better than the two newer guys who played them in the 2018 film, no offense. :)
When Stan Laurel signed away the rights of LAUREL AND HARDY, did he at least make sure that his family/estate would still get a percentage of future earnings ?
Heeeey I remember watching this as a kid. Thanks for sharing
I think a better plot for this would’ve been having Laurel and Hardy working as security guards at the museum and the mummy is stolen whilst they’re on watch so they have to get it back, that’s way more simple and could lead to some fun set pieces whilst not relying on a big budget for special effects and costumes to create supernatural entities
Awesome to see another 90s born Laurel N Hardy fan! I had a Chaplin Bday cake. Great content!
Can we talk about the Hardy's voice though! My god, it's spot on! It's spooky.
I'm not sure who their target was with this. Feels like it was made for kids/young people but Laurel and Hardy are complete unknowns to them.
Never knew so much went into this Laurel and Hardy movie! Thank you for this video and for bringing awareness to the comedic duo! Personally as a kid, I was more into Abbot and Castello but thats thanks to the Looney Tunes parodied shorts!
That “laurel and hardy” birthday cake is so cute! And you look so cute and happy!
Thank you! It was a chore for my parents to locate a bakery that offered it.
That cake looks so cool! They’re even In they’re Hanna-Barbera forms!
@@HatsOffEntertainment That was another nice mess you gotten them into! Hmmphh!
What did you think of Rob Reiner's Merton and Hayes?
I gotta see this movie now
Amazon Prime Video has it.
Alright, that last gag with the taxi made me laugh.
I have such a soft spot for this film. The looks I get at Laurel & Hardy conventions for liking this film tho lol. I even have a original poster for this film.
Oh my god I didn't know there are Laurel and Hardy conventions
yes, and some people likes to eat snails over ice cream
Good I freaking love your content 🤩