Slapstick film

Slapstick films are comedy films where physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, are highlighted over dialogue, plot and character development.^[1] The physical comedy in these films contains a cartoonish style of violence that is predominantly harmless and goofy in tone.^[1]

Silent film had slapstick comedies that included the films starring Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd.^[1] These comedians often laced their slapstick with social commentary while comedians such as Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges did not contain these social messages.^[1]

There were fewer slapstick comedies produced at the advent of sound film.^[1] The genre resurfaced after the World War II in France with films by Jacques Tati and in the United States with films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Great Race as well as the films of comedians like Jerry Lewis.^[1]

Slapstick films

Slapstick films include: Louis de Funes 1964

• The Rink (1916)^[2]
• Safety Last (1923)^[3]
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)^[4]
• The General (1926)^[5]
• Big Business (1929)^[6]
• Way Out West (1937)^[7]
• Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)^[8]
• Mon Oncle (1958)^[9]
• The Great Race (1965)^[10]
• The Party (1968)^[11]
• Bananas (1971)^[12]
• Sleeper (1973)^[13]
• The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)^[14]
• Mr. Vampire (1986)^[15]
• Spaceballs (1987)
• The Naked Gun (1988)^[16]
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)^[17]
• Christmas Vacation (1989)
• Home Alone (1990)
• Problem Child (1990)
• Problem Child 2 (1991)^[18]
• The Naked Gun 2 1/2 (1991)
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)^[19]
• Dennis the Menace (1993)
• Baby's Day Out (1994)^[20]
• Dumb and Dumber (1994)
• The Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994)
• The Santa Clause (1994)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)^[21]
• Spy Hard (1996)
• Flubber (1997)^[22]
• George of the Jungle (1997)^[23]
• Home Alone 3 (1997)^[24]
• There's Something About Mary (1998)
• MouseHunt (1997)^[25]
• Meet The Parents (2000)
• The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
• Super Troopers (2001)^[26]
• The Pink Panther (2006)^[27]
• The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
• Furry Vengeance (2010)
• Grown Ups (2010)
• Vampires Suck (2010)
• Johnny English Reborn (2011)
• Jack and Jill (2011)
• The Three Stooges (2012)
• Thats My Boy (2012)
• Scary Movie 5 (2013)
• Grown Ups 2 (2013)
• Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
• A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
• Vacation (2015)
• Superfast! (2015)
• Grimsby (2016)
• Fifty Shades of Black (2016)

See also

• List of slapstick comedy topics

Notes