Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

ksf-2 Stars and directed by Harold Lloyd. (brother Gaylord Lloyd was assistant director, just to keep it all in the family.) Regular guy Harold Hall wants to get into showbiz, and when there's a mixup in the photos, he is on his way to a screen-test. It's a harold lloyd comedy, so there are mixups, falls, smashups, and unspoken gags all along the way. Unlike Lloyd, Constance Cummings had just broken into hollywood, so this is one of her earlier roles as "Mary". Many old-timey actors in uncredited roles as "dinner guest" listed in the cast list. The broken glass door gag and some of the other bits got a bit annoying, but over-all, it's quite good. Fun to see Lloyd at the top of his game... he had done silents for YEARS, but came out of favor, and didn't make so many talkies. Just for laughs, in the cast list, Arthur Housman is listed as "customer who didn't order rabbit".

evanston_dad Yet more proof that Harold Lloyd was a much better silent comedian than a sound one.In "Movie Crazy," Lloyd plays Harold, a star-struck country boy who, due to a case of (sort of) mistaken identity, lands a screen test in Hollywood. He falls for both a starlet (an engaging Constance Cummings) and a sexy Spanish actress, not realizing that the Spanish actress is really Cummings herself playing a character in a movie. The film could have been a major entry in the "movies about making movies" genre, but it instead opts for blandness and convention. It's not very funny; Lloyd and his collaborators seemed to think that there was no place in a sound film for Lloyd's remarkable acrobatics and physical comedy antics, the things that made his silent films so much fun, but they don't replace them with anything but scene after scene of sluggishly paced, wooden dialogue.Grade: C-

rdjeffers Monday May 14, 7:00pm, The Paramount TheaterA bumbling oaf goes to Hollywood in search of stardom. Wreaking havoc along the way, he falls in love with a beautiful starlet and ass-backwards into a contract. The sound films of Harold Lloyd are of interest when viewed in the context of his entire career. They are of little importance by themselves, and well illustrate the deconstruction of visual narrative by the introduction of sound. What succeeds in Movie Crazy (1932) has little dependence on sound. Lloyd's character is introduced with two entirely visual gags, typical of his earlier work. He appears to be riding in an open car, which pulls away to reveal he is actually peddling a bicycle. As he turns up his driveway, he rescues a duckling he hears down a hole, using water from a garden hose. Sound of the trapped duckling would have worked perfectly as an intertitle. A running gag with a straw boater and an ornery producer is purely visual. Another running gag is the accidental destruction of numerous glass office doors, straight out of Buster Keaton's The Cameraman (1928). The exuberant youth living with his parents had become a stretch for an older Lloyd. This was only magnified by the spoken word. Add to the mix a profusion of bad, and now very dated, dialog (light years from H. M. "Beany" Walker's clever intertitles), the limitations of early sound technology and the distracting, self-conscious camera work it caused, and the magic was more or less gone.

Pollen-2 Came upon this movie which I had never heard of while channel surfing during an episode of insomnia. This was one of the most fun & funny movies I have ever seen! You will be constantly riveted as the scenes move fast and the comedy is clever and extremely well done! The cast is excellent and I found myself laughing out loud over and over again! Was disappointed when it was over as it went way too fast! Sort of like going on a great ride at an amusement park and wanting to go on it again! I would highly recommend this movie to anyone as it is refreshing to see such good acting and fun comedy! I can't wait to see it again!