YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN' is arguably the film which started to properly develop the essential traits of their unique characters and adventures.The boys themselves are humble bandstand musicians who inadvertently wreck the conductor's final appearance.Sacked,they are also made homeless when their landlady throws them out of their digs unable to pay their rent.Their attempts at being street musicians end in predictable failure and frustration,culminating in a furious free-for-all involving scores of other men.
The film gets off to a slightly variable start;the gags involving the bandstand sequence are funny,but the specific and precise timing to a musical beat makes the scene all the more difficult to follow since this is a silent comedy.Things regain their footing very quickly with an amusing dinner-table routine,and the carefully constructed street sequence.Stan and Ollie's never-ending frustrations are methodically and beautifully structured here(only marred by some silent-screen type histrionics by conductor Otto Lederer),until the truly magnificent shin-kicking,pants-ripping finale.It is one of the team's most memorable routines out of so many memorable others.This last scene's frenzied,frantic pace is perfectly judged with hilarious results,finishing off with an unforgettable,and indeed rather charming and dignified wrap-up gag (the boys leaving the scene of chaos tipping their derbies) which rates as one of their best ever.YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN' isn't quite in the classic mould as BIG BUSINESS,THE MUSIC BOX,SONS OF THE DESERT and WAY OUT WEST,but it very nearly gets there and would be rated classic by virtually anyone else's standards.Which shows you how high Laurel and Hardy's standards are.
RATING:8 out of 10.
The film gets off to a slightly variable start;the gags involving the bandstand sequence are funny,but the specific and precise timing to a musical beat makes the scene all the more difficult to follow since this is a silent comedy.Things regain their footing very quickly with an amusing dinner-table routine,and the carefully constructed street sequence.Stan and Ollie's never-ending frustrations are methodically and beautifully structured here(only marred by some silent-screen type histrionics by conductor Otto Lederer),until the truly magnificent shin-kicking,pants-ripping finale.It is one of the team's most memorable routines out of so many memorable others.This last scene's frenzied,frantic pace is perfectly judged with hilarious results,finishing off with an unforgettable,and indeed rather charming and dignified wrap-up gag (the boys leaving the scene of chaos tipping their derbies) which rates as one of their best ever.YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN' isn't quite in the classic mould as BIG BUSINESS,THE MUSIC BOX,SONS OF THE DESERT and WAY OUT WEST,but it very nearly gets there and would be rated classic by virtually anyone else's standards.Which shows you how high Laurel and Hardy's standards are.
RATING:8 out of 10.