In Swedish the names for those Disney chipmunks are "Piff" and "Puff". That happens to rime with "Fluff" and I'd like that as a summary for this film.
Well, all comedies are "fluff", more or less. A comedy always leans on society as it is with no ambition of changing anything of it. The farce or impertinence of, say, Laurel and Hardy, is quite different. These guys made fun of whole constitutions and they were never better than when Hardy had a high position in society and Laurel comes and spoils it all. Also their destructiveness as in Tit for Tat or Big Business has a certain edge to it and we never walk away from a Laurel and Hardy film with more respect for society and instead always with less. In fact, when you look at those two as on insults to society, then you start to grasp their "comedy", which is just the opposite of usual comedy.
This film is a usual comedy. This film is fluff with piff and puff. Still, for Tony Curtis sake, it is still watchable. He plays it for what it is worth with a shrug like "OK, I was bought and I'm just a slave like all you others".
Well, all comedies are "fluff", more or less. A comedy always leans on society as it is with no ambition of changing anything of it. The farce or impertinence of, say, Laurel and Hardy, is quite different. These guys made fun of whole constitutions and they were never better than when Hardy had a high position in society and Laurel comes and spoils it all. Also their destructiveness as in Tit for Tat or Big Business has a certain edge to it and we never walk away from a Laurel and Hardy film with more respect for society and instead always with less. In fact, when you look at those two as on insults to society, then you start to grasp their "comedy", which is just the opposite of usual comedy.
This film is a usual comedy. This film is fluff with piff and puff. Still, for Tony Curtis sake, it is still watchable. He plays it for what it is worth with a shrug like "OK, I was bought and I'm just a slave like all you others".