This is the Rip Van Winkle of franchises, squarely un-hip no matter how evergreen is
its scatological humour; the filmmakers, ultimately to their credit, value tonal continuity with Dumb & Dumber over blending in.
The scatological humour is the only thing in Spaceballs with currency — that, plus extended riffs on the merchandising ploy of contemporary blockbusters (what does CGI allow Lucas but to increase the toy quotient by generating nameless aliens in multiple?)
In which comedy meister Judd Apatow tries to meld his trademark
scatological humour to a character - based drama and ends up with a Lawrence Kasdan movie for the emotionally stunted.
Table readings with writers, performers and finally the cast refined crude material into sparkling
scatological humour that even high - brow critics celebrated for a brief shining moment.
The double entendres meant to test and tease a culture on the verge of a sexual revolution are exploded here in an era where unembarrassed vulgarity and
scatological humour are the rule of the day in comedies — sexual or otherwise.
Not exact matches
Reared on a diet of the genuinely affecting
scatological slapsticks of the Farrelly Brothers and the still - fitfully - entertaining product out of Judd Apatow's exhausted factory, we're far more sophisticated in our fringe
humour these days.