Whether you find all this funny or not depends on your taste for comedy, but I'm afraid I thought it was pretty awful.
It takes two Laurel & Hardy imitators and throws them in the middle of a frankly puerile story involving evil foreigners, a re-animated mummy, and even a random CGI snake at the climax.
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This attempt to update the classic comedy partnership for a new generation simply isn't very funny due to the weak writing and lacklustre material. Instead, seeing the pair in 1930s Laurel & Hardy garb in modern times with such an unconventional plot was jarring and weird.and not in a good way. Filming in black & white might have been nice and setting it back in the late 1920s or 1930s would have really worked nicely. Additionally, filming in modern day South Africa.well, that's WAY beyond wrong-headed and forced! So how could this film have worked? Well, by making it look EXACTLY like a Laurel & Hardy short for a start. Seeing Hardy and Laurel being chased by a mummy and dealing with the baddie with mystical powers all just seemed wrong-headed and forced. Perhaps they should have just made this an Abbott and Costello tribute film. This is a serious miscalculation, as this sort of thing isn't at all like ANY Laurel & Hardy film.but it worked well with Abbott and Costello. The story finds the pair placed into what seems like a re-working of "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy".with a bit of "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (with the missing artifact angle.and the boys being blamed for it).
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The problem with the movie is pretty much everything else.the writing, the supporting cast, the decision to place the pair in the present day, as well as making this a full-length film instead of a comedy short (and generally Laurel & Hardy's best work was in their short films). In particular, Sartain is spot on as Hardy.but you also must admire Pinchot's acting, which is way better than what he showed us in "Perfect Strangers". The amazing part is how close Gailard Sartain and Bronson Pinchot recreate Laurel & Hardy.
They hide under the covers and seconds later a black cat darts from the cupboard and races across their bed, leaving the duo in hysterics.įinal Mewsings: The black cat running out and scaring someone bit is priceless in the hands of these two comic geniuses."The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in 'For Love or Mummy" is both awful and amazing. As they try to settle down to sleep they hear an ungodly screeching and the cupboard door opens, revealing two spots of light within. Purr Blur: A hilarious moment happens when Laurel and Hardy go to bed in the room where Ebeneezer was found murdered in the cupboard. And, of course, to make the scene complete, the gathering of suspects takes place in the very scary Laurel mansion on a dark, rainy night.
What they don’t know is that the gathering of relatives is actually a ruse by a police inspector to try to determine the identity of Ebeneezer’s murderer. Synopsis: Laurel and Hardy see in a newspaper that the will of the late Ebeneezer Laurel, whose estate is worth $3 million, is scheduled to be read.