Contains one of the funniest movie sequences I have ever seen.

Rating: Null/10 (24 November 2004)

The beginning 5 or 10 minutes of this movie contain some of the funniest scenes I can ever remember seeing in any film (except from Chaplin's silent short feature, "Pay Day") - I laughed out loud and so hard, I cried, I thought it was so funny. The remainder of the movie is, of course, typically clever, the humor more low key and very Chaplin-ish. When I first saw it (which is fairly recently), I was quite surprised that it was his first "talkie" - naturally being used to his silent films, I was quite pleasantly surprised by his pleasing voice and that he didn't move to sound earlier. Charlie Chaplin will always remain my favorite performer/artist/director/comic - The Little Tramp.