Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

thinbeach Harold climbed a twelve story building as a publicity stunt to attract attention for the business he worked for, and it worked, for this is one of his most renowned films, thanks largely to the image of his dangling by the clock hand over busy city streets below. Harold impresses his girlfriend by pretending to be far more impressive than he really is. Whether spending his last pennies to buy her jewellery, even when he can't afford rent, and impersonating the general manager of his fabric store, even when he is just a salesman, his life is a constant facade, and fittingly (no pun intended), constantly spiralling out of control, in ever so silly a fashion (ok, maybe a small pun). It is not always logical, but it is always entertaining.

JohnHowardReid A Hal Roach Studios production, released through Pathé. Copyright 25 January 1923 by Pathé Exchange, Inc. New York opening at the Strand: 1 April 1923. U.S. release: 1 April 1923. 7 reels. 6,300 feet. 73 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Anxious to impress his girl, a humble department store employee finds himself cast in the role of a human fly. NOTES: Only movie appearance of real "human fly", Bill Strother.A domestic rentals gross of $1.5 million established the movie in third position (with The Hunchback of Notre Dame) as one of the most popular movies of the year. Only The Covered Wagon and The Ten Commandments (both shown at roadshow prices) took more money at U.S./Canadian ticket windows in 1923.Voted number seven in The Film Daily annual poll of more than 300 film critics.Oddly, the movie did not make The New York Times "Ten Best" list for the year at all , or even the supplementary list where the critic preferred Lloyd's next movie, Why Worry? COMMENT: Not Lloyd's best film, nor even his funniest nor most thrilling, but the one everybody remembers and relates to, Safety Last established Lloyd as Chaplin's closest competitor. Meticulously constructed, cleverly directed and handsomely produced on real Los Angeles locations (including the Brockman Building), the movie features Lloyd in almost every single scene—and even in the few clips where Lloyd is not physically present, the other players are either talking about him or establishing "business" for him to use in later scenes. This concentration pays many laugh and thrill dividends throughout, especially in the climactic climb. In fact, Safety Last is that rare commodity, a classic movie that still delivers the same punch, the same thrills, the same triggers to outbursts of laughter that audiences responded to on its original release. AVAILABLE on DVD through New Line. Quality rating: Ten out of ten.

sol- Desperate to impress his girlfriend back home, an inner city store clerk lies about being promoted to manager, which leads to complications when she pays him a surprise visit in this classic Harold Lloyd comedy. The film is best known for its iconic final sequence in which Lloyd ends up hanging from a clock high up on the building where he works. It is an unexpectedly thrilling sequence with much tension in the air as the ground far below him is clearly visible and as a variety of long and medium shots capture just how high up he winds up climbing. The vast majority of the film though is just typical Harold Lloyd high jinks and hilarity, some of which is excellent (hitching an ambulance ride; hiding under overcoats) and some of which is a little drawn out. Lloyd is charming as ever throughout though, which makes it a very easy movie to warm to. And yet, while Lloyd's best known film, this is hardly his funniest; 'Speedy' has more to offer in the laughs department as well as a more well-rounded love interest, as opposed to Mildred Davis here who seems far more interested in Lloyd having power and money than Lloyd himself. That said, the supporting cast is generally solid, with a special mention to Westcott Clarke as an indignant floor manager and one particularly fussy materials customer. The stunt work is remarkable too, and not just in the final scene.

SnoopyStyle The Boy (Harold Lloyd) leaves Great Bend for the big city vowing to return to marry Mildred once he makes good. Months later, he is rooming with Limpy Bill (Bill Strother) with a lowly fabric salesman job at the DeVore Department Store. He writes constantly to Mildred but is lying to her about his success. One Saturday after closing at 1pm, he runs into an old friend Jim Taylor from Great Bend who is now a city policeman. He gets Bill to play a trick on Jim but it turns out to be another policeman. Bill has to make a run for it by climbing up the side of a building. (That's one crazy stunt.) Meanwhile back home, the mother thinks that The Boy with so much money in the big city could get up to no good and convinces Mildred to make a surprise visit. The store is wild with a sale as The Boy pretends to be the manager. He is called into the general manager's office following a complaint. Coming out of the office, Mildred assumes that he is the actual general manager. He overhears the general manager offering $1000 to anyone with an original idea to attract a crowd to the store. He offers $500 to Bill to climb the building. The cop suspects it's the same guy who got away from him and stakes out the event. The Boy is forced to start climbing. (There is an even bigger real climb plus a lot of in-camera effects.)Of course, there is the climb up the building with the clock. It is an iconic scene of the silent movie era. The story works well too. The Boy is a guy who does lie and scheme. He is not strictly a nice boy and in that sense, he reminds me of Mr Bean. However it is the climb up the buildings that is so awe inspiring. First off, there is Bill Strother who plays Limpy Bill. He's a human fly who really climbs the buildings. Then Harold Lloyd made the in-camera effects where he is a couple of stories up. The clock climb is so convincing that sometimes one could forget the effects and truly feel the vertigo. That's the genius of Harold Lloyd.