Fighting Fluid

Fighting Fluid (1925)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around. This happens at his work when a co-worker sneaks off with the boss's daughter who just happens to be the crush for Charley. After accidentally getting loaded on bootleg whiskey, Charley gets some courage and goes out to get his woman. This is a pretty politically incorrect little comedy that just shows women as targets for men but as long as you don't take it too serious then you should get a few laughs out of it. The sequence with Chase being drunk and busting into his loves house is pretty funny as is a later sequence when he thinks her leg has fallen off. Running just over ten-minutes this short really doesn't get to expand into too much story but what's here isn't bad and it's a tad bit darker than a few of the earlier Chase movies.