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Whether you brand this film as a dusky comedy or as a sad familial drama with bits of comedy thrown in, Comic BONES is a brilliantly unlit masterpiece containing first rate acting performances by all of the principals, and especially Lee Evans (There’s Something About Mary, Mousehunt) . In fact, it is Lee Evans who super-charges this movie with his complex and outrageously humorous portrayal of the skittish funny genius Jack Parker.
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The supporting cast, including the sparkling Jerry Lewis, Leslie Caron, George Carl, and Oliver Reed, all offer strong performances as does Oliver Platt, playing the failed humorous Tommy Fawkes, who goes assist to the Blackpool, England of his early youth in search of the secrets of comedy. He will eventually expose many of these secrets, as well as some shadowy family secrets he didn’t anticipate finding. Lewis plays a supporting role as Tommy’s father, a superstar comical who rules the Las Vegas strip and overshadows his son.
The quirky citizens of Blackpool, including the aforementioned Jack Parker, add charm, comedy, and warmth to this film. At times disturbing, heartbreaking, suspenseful, and hysterical, Comical BONES is an strange exiguous film, but one that lends itself to many viewings.
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I review very few films, but feel compelled to recommend Humorous BONES since few people seem to have seen it and because it is one of my popular films of all time.
Jeremy W. Forstadt
Funny Bones is a hilarious dismal comedy that got overlooked because it is too quick-witted and multi-faceted for easy categorization. Admittedly the film has flaws. The Vegas-Blackpool connection is something of a kluge, and the Parker Brothers vaudeville act is a far wail from the Tommy Fawkes – two dogs slide into a bar – style of comedy that begins the movie. The sub-plot of stolen life-preserving powder, harmful policemen, and French-Egyptians is a distraction at best, although the severed feet do provide a sparkling “running” gag. But these criticisms are trivial when compared to what the movie gets proper.
First, it totally understands the relationship between humor and distress, and gives an just and sympathetic idea of this bond, a bond that is closer than liver and onions, corned beef and cabbage, wang and chung. Next it features some factual comedy genius, primarily thanks to Lee Evans as a semi-autistic virtual mime who is as droll in his interactions with a police psychologist as he is on stage in his one-man radio-riffing manic extravaganza. Those few minutes alone are worth the impress of the movie, as is the scene where he and Platt sneak into the mortuary to retrieve the severed feet. Evans, Jack, has cleverly decided to stash the feet in a ski-boot case, and, to complete his disguise, carries a pair of skis with him. Priceless.
Equally inspired are the scenes where assorted Blackpool entertainers audition, (you’ll replay this many times), and when we finally acquire to peruse the Parker Brothers do their renowned act – vaudeville at its very best. That the Parker Brothers live inside a roller coaster and derive their living as human mannequins in a chamber of horrors train-ride is simply par for the course in Comical Bones.
Oliver Platt is very sterling as a man trying to survive a narcissistic and insufferable father. Leslie Caron serene looks righteous although her contribution is minor, and Oliver Reed makes the most of a shrimp allotment. The surprise is Jerry Lewis. This is not the nasty, pseudo-retarded Jerry Lewis you’ve near to know and loathe through decades of sinister films. This is the Jerry Lewis you saw in King Of Comedy, another movie that looked unflinchingly at the relationship between comedy and hurt. He’s not on camera considerable, but every moment he is rings right and affirms the movie’s authenticity.
Wonderfully cracked, characters you have to treasure, extremely droll, well made. Don’t miss this one. And the first dog says….
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