The Worst Film Ever

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Amateur movie with Big budget

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Preparations for a restful weekend picnic go awry at every turn for Laurel, Hardy, their wives (Isabelle Keith and Kay Deslys), and uncle Edgar Kennedy who happens to be suffering from a broken foot and who will suffer from a lot more before the day is out. If it isn't their jack Russell pooch making lunch out of Kennedy's leg, it's a car wheel landing on it during their unsuccessful attempts to change a tire and get out of their neighborhood. Friendly neighbors keep saying goodbye, obviously hoping they'll leave before they destroy the neighborhood, which leads to an extended glass breaking sequence. It's frantic and often absurd, but so are days where in real life, everything seems to go wrong at the same time. Laurel's lack of brain cells don't help, nor does Hardy's bad timing or bad temper. You just know that by they get to their picnic, the basket will either be filled with ants or spoiled food. Better them than us, but better us, because the laughs are ours, especially for the surprise finale, similarly used in "Helpmates", which is considered one of their best.

Perfect Day (1929) *** (out of 4) Laurel, Hardy and their families are going on a picnic but various events stand in their way. Another wonderfully funny short features many great gags including the car breaking down and the best moments involving the uncle's bad foot.Tit for Tat (1935) *** (out of 4) Sequel to Them Thar Hills has L&H opening an electronics store next to a grocery store owned by the man they had the run in with in the previous film. This one here works a lot better for laughs even though the film is pretty straight forward with childish gags where the group destroys the others store.

Oliver, Stan and their extended family decide to go for a drive and have a picnic given that it is such perfect weather for it. However a series of events starting with an injured foot, a faulty car and many misunderstandings mean that it is harder to bid their neighbours farewell than they'd hoped.Although slapstick must seem very simply humour (it is, after all, people falling over) it actually must be very difficult to do. In this case it all centres round a picnic trip although the car goes no further than it's parking space for the majority of the film. To come up with a 20 minutes sketch around this is hard work, but yet Laurel & hardy manage to pull it off. The jokes are all quite obvious and none are out of nowhere or very funny, but it all works quite well.The funniest bit to me was the punchline – both Laurel & Hardy keep straight faces and do it like real professionals and make the final shot funnier than it actually is. Both the leads are good but the material requires a lot more setting up which means you can often see the gag about a mile away and it takes away form it a little. The support cast are all pretty ordinary but perform their tasks adequately as really we are watching the lead two. Kennedy's contribution is easily the best as he does battle with a foot bandage and an angry dog.Overall this is an enjoyable short despite the fact that the humour is very staged and doesn't flow as easily as much of their stuff. The punchline is good but some of the material just seems to be lacking that spark. That said, it is still worth a watch.

A LAUREL & HARDY Comedy Short. It is a PERFECT DAY for the Laurels & the Hardys to go on a picnic, taking gouty old Uncle Ed with them. In typical fashion, the Boys proceed to demolish first the sandwiches & then the car, with Uncle's foot coming in for several good whacks along the way.Pure slapstick from start to finish. Those who like painful physical humor will get lots of laughs here. Stan & Ollie seem much more violent towards each other than usual. Edgar Kennedy plays the much-battered Uncle Ed.