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Old 04-01-2007, 01:13 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by YOUR Hero
no you are wrong. It was subtle, but well done and thusly became popular. It took on it's own life outside the theater and into people's vocab. It was not a sledgehammer by design, it became one through it's audience.
I see your point, and the audience did wreck it, but I personally think it was fairly obvious while I was watching it. Some of the gags are subtle, and do hit (I loved the way Napoleon went as far as the chord would go around a corner while he talked), but a lot of it seemed to be trying too hard.

Take Napoleon's love interest, I've forgotten her name: The performance was just too obvious right down to the physical appearance (who does their hair like that?). Sure, that may have been the point, but I don't think it was subtle at all. Things like getting meat thrown in the face aren't the smartest gags, either.

I think it is more fractioned their absolute either way, but watching it I knew why I was meant to laugh, I just didn't think it was clever or funny.
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