This is a CINEMATIC BLUNDER without TASTE or TALENT! This directorial mish-mash packed in a FILM CAN... A SCORCHED "HALF-BAKED" Attempt to Emulate Authentic Characters by cooked up ANTICS and THEATRIX missed its plate. Watch Any stark Pre-WWII B&W "Fascist Mussolini At The Balcony" Muse Reels and Not refrain from a Politically Charged Stereotype "Chuckle"... or anb Impoverished Irish American LOUD Mouth Ralph ripping Norton, Alice, Trixie and whomever Ralph invents to Pick a Beef with in the World Reknowned definition of "Woefully Humorous" to Laugh at one's True Family History Humorously Depicted in its Own True and "Needy" Dire ... We can't define HILARIOUS any better how this "wrist slashingly deepressing hellarity of a Drab One Window & Door Gloomy LOW BUDGET PRODUCTION Apartment Set" SPELLED CREATIVE GENIUS Shot on a HOTEL'S STAGE before a LIVE AUDIENCE Told a FAIRYTALE TRUE STORY or an EXTREMELY BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE EXAMPLE to EMULATE ANY BETTER... with an AUDIENCE APPEAL that REMAINS nearing a CENTURY of GLEESON'S GREATNESS for "FILMED LAUGHTER" than LASSIE is for DOG!!
THERFORE Any Upcoming Needy Producer/Writer or Director needn't go far to find RERUNS that served (many a TV Dinner Plate) to find as a WORTHY influential mentorship to set sail for Success with. Sadly More-often than ever... The BACKSTABBING EGOCENTRIC SELF stands in the Way of BACKSLAPPING ADMIRATION. After All Said and Done; who couldn't have some feelings of EMPATHY for these poor story scavengers that Sent Themselves up A CREEK without even a PADDLE. In This Industry... at One Time or Another WE ALL MUST bravely ADMIT to say I've "BEEN THERE"!
