The Flying Deuces

One off the last great Laurel and Hardy film, a must watch

LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 05 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The iconic duo Laurel and Hardy join the French Foreign Legion in The Flying Deuces. As much as I am a fan of Laurel and Hardy and their films, I wasn't that fond of The Flying Deuces. Even though I love their performances as always and thought the film was pretty funny, The Flying Deuces felt like a B-movie sadly due to the fact the sound and music were very annoying. Speaking of annoying, the editing was pretty odd at times. Regardless of the bad qualities that I have stated, Laurel and Hardy in The Flying Deuces is still an adequate motion picture simply because of Laurel and Hardy putting on a great performance as always with the addition of the film being pretty funny.

The story is based on a joke popular in that era-Oliver joins the French Foreign Legion to forget a girl he had fallen in love with but couldn't have (because she is married). He and Stan join the Legion, do some bumbling, and then learn that being in the French Foreign Legion doesn't pay much, so they elect to leave. Unfortunately they find they cannot, and are tried for desertion and sentenced to death. They try to fly away in a stolen airplane, though neither actually know how to pilot said plane. There are good bits-where Stan plays a set of bedsprings like a harp, and where they make their escape from confinement. But many of the other gags are hardly funny. Laurel and Hardy may have been the original "fat and thin man" comedy duo, but Art Carney and Jackie Gleason did a far better job.

Funny, memories from the time we were in the cinema as children in the 50s

A few chuckles and it flies by, can't say I massively enjoyed it though. 'The Flying Deuces' features the talents of iconic duo Laurel and Hardy. Despite knowing of them for as long as I can remember, I can't say I've seen much - if anything - of them before this. I look forward to seeing more in the future, but hopefully they're a tad better than this. This is solid enough, as I said I did feel amused at a few moments. A more interesting plot would've peaked my interest more, as would less of the overly obvious comedy. Very meh, for me.

Just a classic. Rewatched again.

Even not quite top tier Laurel & Hardy is still worth anyone's time. Wonderful set-pieces include Ollie failing to take his own life after being jilted and Stan doing a Harpo with a prison bed. The Foreign Legion fortress is very obviously the RKO backlit, but again that's part of the charm.

Classic Laurel and Hardy comedy as they join the foreign legion to help Hardy get over his marriage proposal refusal from the girl he lost his heart too.

Believe it or not, this is actually the first Laurel & Hardy movie I've seen. Apparently this was one of their later works, had a troubled production, and even they weren't that fond of it. The movie follows Laurel and Hardy as they join the French Foreign Legion, discover it's no fun, and try to leave. There are definitely some inspired gags here, particularly the final one, but overall the movie feels a bit tired, even though it's only 60 minutes long. While I'm sure their earlier films are better, this one has not aged nearly as well as the comparable works of the Marx Brothers or even Abbott and Costello. It's kind of amusing, but there are plenty of better zany 1930s comedies.