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Brilliant and touching

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Dear me, Laurel (Bronson Pinchot) and Oliver (Gailard Sartain) are STILL always in another fine mess. Making their own fliers at the library, they run out of the book stacks without paying for copies, to the great chagrin of the much put-upon librarian. Even though this lady vows the duo will be charged, she ends up bicycling into the river when their antics make her lose control. Meanwhile, the accident prone twosome meet up with a beautiful professor's daughter, Leslie, and Oliver is smitten. This woman soon needs their help, as her father (F. Murray Abraham), also an archaeologist, receives a mummy's sarcophagus from Egypt. Ah, but the mummy awakens and starts threatening the populace but especially Leslie. However, this gal only has eyes for another businessman. IF Stan and Oliver can prove this entrepreneur is up to no good AND protect Les, will her affections be transferred to Ollie? This is a delightful film, with Pinchot and Sartain doing just marvelously in roles with shoes that are hard to fill. Their voices, too, are perfect and Pinchot has the wacky facial expressions down pat. Naturally, Abraham is great, although underused, and the rest of the cast quite nice. Viewers will love the Manhattan sets, costumes, well-conceived script, and tight direction as well. Have you always wished for MORE Laurel and Hardy films, when you thought it wasn't possible to get them? This is your lucky day when you discover this little flick.

However, perhaps I'm nitpicking, but in my opinion the "modern day" setting doesn't really seem to work in some respects. For a start, Stan and Ollie still wear their 30s/40s style attire - how many people do you catch wearing bowler hats in this day and age? At times, they seemed almost to be living in a bizarre time warp, which didn't really make sense.Overall though, this is good, old-fashioned slapstick comedy, well in the spirit of the real Stan and Ollie. It's nice to see such innocent laughs for a change, with the kinds of films we're seeing most of the time today, this is a rare treat for the family!

Maybe I am just too much of a Laurel & Hardy fan, but i found this thing on HBO and thought I was hallucinating. This was awful!!! Has Bronson Pinchot's career sunk so low that he must do this? A Stan Laurel impression???? Yikes! And Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham doing a small burn as these lame Laurel & Hardy copycats do their shtick was almost too painful to watch. All this movie emphasized was how GREAT and UNIQUE the original men were. This movie should never have been made. For goodness sakes, if you want to watch them, rent their classic movies, Music Box, Sons Of the Desert, Brats, etc.

I was glad when I heard about this new film, and Gailard Sartain was outstanding as Ollie. Although this new film wasn't as laugh-out-loud as the original L&H films were, it's still worth a watch. Hopefully we'll see more to follow in the film series. And with the advent of the internet, perhaps Larry Harmon will take a few suggestions from the huge fan-base (that he now has access to) on what direction to follow for a possible second L&H motion picture. If there isn't a second, then find the original Laurel and Hardy feature "Sons of the Desert." That is, quite possibly, one of their best features by far. "Flying Deuces" is another goodie, and easier to find.