Fancy Movie Time #23 - It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
On this episode of Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the Fancy Lads hop in a biplane and knock out Jim Backus as they cover Stanley Kramer's 1963 mega-comedy: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Do its wide array of comedic stars and its commitment to throwing every bit at the wall make it a Fancy Feast? Or does its lugubrious pacing and cast of mostly comedic non-actors make it a Failure to Fancy? One thing's for sure: people in 1960s San Diego really loved to DANCE.
Next Episode: Ace in the Hole (1951)
Comments (10)
The bit with the Three Stooges is almost like a horror scene, because you know who they are and what they do, so them being firefighters here is this ominous foreshadowing that something wacky and fucked is going to happen, but we don't get to see it, and it's left to our imaginations.
too many ostriches mentioned 🗣
Little known fact, Saul Bass's mother was pushed over a cliff by Dalmatians.
Further proof of my strange childhood is that I loved old-school, Texaco Star Theatre slapstick Milton Berle. My grandparents had a vhs tape collection that I watched over and over. I might even still have them. The scene with him prancing around in a smoking jacket, saying, "Shot mother, you know. Bow and arrow. Didn't want to wake the children." Has lived in my head since I don't even know how young. I really need to see this movie! Can't believe AJ thought Milton Berle was Groucho Marx.
That collection of skits I used to watch is on YouTube apparently! It's called Milton Berle The Second Time Around. It's got the play he puts on where he acts as 3 of the 4 characters, and it's still hilarious!
This should be interesting to listen to you, because I saw this movie when we were shown it as a reward for something in elementary school. I don't remember liking it that much, it seemed really long, and just remember having no clue what was going on and some part at the end with people hanging on to a telephone wire? I don't remember thinking it was funny, I just remember being confused. So I'm looking forward to being told why this is a good movie, or not.
The line “it must have been in a Nora Ephron movie” made me check to see if it was in the Nic Cage throwback rom com IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU which I have a soft spot for cause I feel like with some minor cuts you could just release it in 1939 and no one would bat an eye
but Jafar is already sexy Jafar
I confused this movie with another for a minute. Either way, a great episode and I, for one, would definitely want a Murder by Death episode
Oh damn! I've actually seen this one a few times! Even rewatched in last year just to see if it was as funny as I remembered it. Verdict: kinda?