"Nouvelles luttes extravagantes" is one of film pioneer Georges Méliès' funniest films....and I found myself chuckling several times as I watched it. For such an early film, it was very well done and holds up pretty well today.
When the story begins, two women enter the picture. Their clothes instantly change before your eyes. Then, the instantly change into guys who wrestle. The match itself is INSANE...with one wrestler ripping the head and limbs off the other...and then they magically return. Later, two other wrestlers appear...one very large, the other skinny. What happens next REALLY made me laugh.
If you aren't familiar with Georges Méliès, he was a stage magician who became a filmmaker in 1896. He specialized in making films where magical stuff occurs due to various camera tricks he pioneered. Most are things that are very obvious today...but back in the day, they made audiences marvel. Most of the tricks in this particular film were done by stopping the camera, making a change and then restarting the camera to make it appear as if something has disappeared or changed. Pretty simple stuff but also quite clever and fun. My score of 10 is relative to other films of the day.