"We! We! Marie!" is a comedy short that was filmed on the same sets already constructed for the great anti-war film, "All Quiet on the Western Front". As far as the title goes, it's from a song which came out in 1918 and is an Arthur Fields song about a American soldier who has fallen for a French lady:
"Oui oui, Marie, will you do zis for me?
Oui oui, Marie, then I'll do zat for you.
I love your eyes,
They make me feel so spoony;
You'll drive me loony,
You're teasing me,
Why can't we parley-vous
Like other sweethearts do?
I want a kiss or two
From ma Cherie.
Oui oui, Marie,
If you'll do zis for me,
Then I'll do zat for you,
Oui Oui Marie."
Slim Summerville plays a dopey American soldier. He and his sergeant get into a variety of problems behind the lines as well as when the unit is sent over the top. None of it is extremely funny and to me it was hard to laugh about soldiers being sent across no-man's land to die. Still too soon? All I know is that about 20,000,000 were killed in the war, making it difficult for humor...though Laurel & Hardy did manage to make a couple funnier WWI films.
So over all, there's nothing genius about this nor anything bad apart from the war itself. Worth seeing, perhaps, but far from a must-see picture.
Slim Summerville plays a dopey American soldier. He and his sergeant get into a variety of problems behind the lines as well as when the unit is sent over the top. None of it is extremely funny and to me it was hard to laugh about soldiers being sent across no-man's land to die. Still too soon? All I know is that about 20,000,000 were killed in the war, making it difficult for humor...though Laurel & Hardy did manage to make a couple funnier WWI films.
So over all, there's nothing genius about this nor anything bad apart from the war itself. Worth seeing, perhaps, but far from a must-see picture.