She fares OK all things considered, showing an admirable willingness to make a complete fool of herself, as her character is repeatedly subject to
all manner of slapstick abuse (drunkenness, wall climbing sabotage, a gushing catheter), though she projects adorability more than charisma.
But considering the film's Sugarplum Fairy demographic, destigmatizing strangers through the requisite Home Alone - ization of cops (Williams is subject to
all manner of slapstick punishment) is not just irresponsible, but morally reprehensible, too.
Not exact matches
What to call a sex comedy
of manners that turns
slapstick and culminates in murder?
A tense confrontation in a pub bathroom between Gary and a hoodie - clad youth explodes suddenly into surrealist
slapstick, and The World's End turns on a dime from a soused comedy
of manners into a science - fiction spectacle that ambitiously splits the difference between John Wyndham and John Carpenter.
That air is reinforced by the aspects
of farce, comedy
of manners, and even a little
slapstick that continually make themselves felt.