Slapstick film

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Slapstick films are comedy films where physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, practical jokes, and mistakes 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] Slapstick is about uninhibited action and timing, which may include being made to look foolish or to act with tom foolery.[2]

There were fewer slapstick comedies produced at the advent of sound film.[1] After World War II, the genre resurfaced 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, starring the Stoic, aloof and mild mannered Buster Keaton, also known as The Great Stone Face, as well as the films of comedians like Jerry Lewis.[1]

Slapstick films and television series[]

Slapstick films and television series include:

1910s[]

1920s[]

  • The Scarecrow (1920)[4]
  • Safety Last! (1923)[5]
  • Sherlock Jr. (1924)[6]
  • The General (1926)[7]
  • Big Business (1929)[8]
  • Mickey Mouse (1929–1953)

1930s[]

  • Looney Tunes (1930–1969, 1980–present)
  • Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
  • Lightning Strikes Twice (1935)[9]
  • Way Out West (1937)[10]
  • Donald Duck (1937–1965)

1940s[]

  • Whistling in the Dark (1941)[11]
  • Crazy Knights (1944)[12]
  • Tom and Jerry (1940–present)

1950s[]

1960s[]

1970s[]

  • The Boatniks (1970),[52]
  • Bananas (1971)[53]
  • Evil Roy Slade (1972)
  • Carry On Abroad (1972)
  • My Name Is Nobody (1973)
  • Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973),
  • Sleeper (1973)[54]
  • (1974)[55]
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • The Fortune (1975),[56]
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  • Slap Shot (1977)[57][58]
  • Up in Smoke (1978)
  • The Jerk (1979)
  • 1941 (1979)
  • The Kentucky Fried Movie (1979)

1980s[]

  • Airplane! (1980)
  • Hardly Working (1981), surreal slapstick[59]
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)[60]
  • History of the World, Part I (1981)
  • Airplane II: The Sequel
  • Mr. Vampire (1986), horror-comedy[61]
  • Club Paradise (1986)[62]
  • Stoogemania (1986)
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
  • Spaceballs (1987)
  • Munchies (1987), horror-comedy
  • Beetlejuice (1988), horror-comedy
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)[63]
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
  • Garfield and Friends (1988)
  • Slime City (1988)
  • The Wrong Guys (1988)
  • Arthur 2 (1988)
  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
  • See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)[64]
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
  • UHF (1989)
  • Sweet Home (1989)
  • Major League (1989)
  • The Simpsons (1989–present)

1990s[]

2000s[]

  • Meet The Parents (2000)
  • 102 Dalmatians (2000)
  • The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
  • Scary Movie (2000), horror-comedy
  • Teacher's Pet (2000)
  • Big Money Hustlas (2000)
  • I Am Sam (2001)
  • 2001: A Space Travesty (2001)
  • La Tour Montparnasse Infernale (2001)
  • Shrek (2001)
  • Rat Race (2001)
  • Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
  • Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius (2001)
  • Monsters, Inc. (2001)
  • The Fairly OddParents (2001–2017)
  • Scary Movie 2 (2001), horror-comedy
  • Super Troopers (2001)[75]
  • Tomcats (2001), gross-out, sex-comedy
  • Zoolander (2001)
  • Joe Dirt (2001)
  • Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000), horror-comedy
  • Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002)
  • Home Alone 4 (2002)
  • Larryboy (2002)
  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (2002)
  • Scary Movie 3 (2003), horror-comedy
  • The Cat in the Hat (2003)
  • Leprechaun 6: Back 2 Tha Hood (2003), horror-comedy
  • Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003–2007)
  • Evil Con Carne (2003–2004)
  • White Chicks (2004)[76]
  • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004)
  • Shrek 2 (2004)
  • Camp Lazlo (2005)
  • Catscratch (2005)
  • My Gym Partner's a Monkey (2005)
  • Night at the Museum (2006)
  • The Pink Panther (2006)[77]
  • Scary Movie 4 (2006), horror-comedy
  • Evil Aliens (2006), horror-comedy
  • Shrek The Third (2007)
  • Epic Movie (2007)
  • Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)
  • Back at the Barnyard (2007)
  • El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera (2007)
  • Meet the Spartans (2008)
  • Superhero Movie (2008)
  • Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story, (2008)
  • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
  • The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
  • Suck (2009)
  • Bibi Blocksberg (2009)
  • Black Dynamite (2009)

2010s[]

2020s[]

  • The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse (2020–present)
  • Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020–present)
  • Animaniacs (2020–present)
  • Tom and Jerry Special Shorts (2021)
  • Space Jam A New Legacy (2021)
  • Jellystone! (2021–present)
  • Jackass Forever (2022)
  • The Cuphead Show! (2022)

TBA[]

  • Tiny Toons Looniversity (TBA)

See also[]

  • List of slapstick comedy topics
  • Slapstick - the eponymous device, used by Harlequin in Commedia
  • Mo lei tau, a genre of slapstick comedy in Hong Kong cinema

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