Browser’s Magnificent Seven
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THE American equivalent of those old Brit Carry On comedies.
Some critics were offended by the crude humour, but the public loved it.
It cost $15 million to make and raked in $340 million. Jim Carrey’s pay cheque was $7 million.
Carrey plays Lloyd Christmas, a moronic cab driver, who takes his equally dim pal Harry Dunne, alias Jeff Daniels, a professional dog walker, to return a briefcase he found in his taxi. It contains a million dollars in ransom money and its owner, a beautiful blonde, clearly does not want it back.
This crass duo have run ins with gangsters, cops, truck drivers etc.
Not since Airplane, have we seen such a non-stop stream of gags — good, bad and awful.
One critic who hated it said he laughed so much at a parakeet joke he almost did himself an injury. It was Peter Farrelly’s debut as a director in 1994.
Empire magazine called it: “A delight, 102 minutes of non-stop, toilet-fixated, pant-wettingly daft humour that has charmed Americans into auditoria in droves and looks set to cause similarly huge bouts of laugh-induced incontinence in the UK.”
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