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Review title: The worst of Laurel & Hardy...
Product review: ...is, sadly, not "worth seeing anyway", as some folks claim. These are sad, dull, humorless films with two dull, humorless characters who don't look or act like Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, all the more sad because they ARE Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy. Fox crushed all of the humor out of them and put them in weak Abbott & Costello ripoffs (GREAT GUNS) or gave them scripts that the Bowery Boys would've rejected. In 1938, they made one of their best pictures, the hilarious BLOCK-HEADS, for Hal Roach, and within 3 years they were washed up in films, thanks to horrible movies like these. As another reviewer mentioned, a week later Warners is releasing an L&H DVD collection with one of their best films, THE DEVIL'S BROTHER (FRA DIAVOLO) and some very funny sequences from other films. Skip this and buy that, but by all means order a copy of Randy Skretvedt's essential book on Stan & Ollie to go with it.
