After watching the trailer for this Jerry Lewis mirthfest and knowing what horrors were to come (multiple Jerrys!), ten minutes was all I could stomach. From the opening armored-car robbery, Lewis manages to mangle his shot order and characters (who’s doing what?), only to stumble over a series of camera set-ups as he attempts to pull off a compound gag: just outside a ball-yard fence, Jerry innocently goes for a long ball and serendipitously annihilates some crooks without knowing what he’s done. But not without parenthesizing each comic moment with a "funny" face (fore & aft) for our greater delectation. And don’t forget the cutesy reaction shots from the talentless waif we’re meant to coo & cry over. Harry Langdon & Frank Capra are spinning in their graves.
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