Dr. Jack (1922) :
Brief Review -
Doctor Harold Lloyd's medicine is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED for your heart, brain, stomach, and cheeks. Perhaps the best doctor-comedy ever made. Harold Lloyd and Fred C. Newmayer's duo has done it again. You can see all their films and enjoy them. But you will come back home calling "Dr. Jack" extremely underrated. I may sound a little harsh while saying this, but I got to say that Dr. Jack has made me laugh more than at least 50 films from that AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs list. To hell with the juries for not having this film there. It's their loss, not the film's, I believe. Dr. Jack lasts for 59 minutes, and almost 50 minutes of it have some creatively iconic laughter. 50 minutes, 50 outstanding gags, so if I have to mention all 50 gags and their features, then I'll have to write a 3x longer review (poor my brief review). Therefore, I won't talk about the gags and how iconic and organically funny they are, because then you'll have no fun watching them as fresh bangers. We are done with the likes of Patch Adams and Munnabhai MBBS, but believe me, Lloyd's Dr. Jack is far superior to them. It's comedy CARNAGE! You will not find such gags in many Charles Chaplin or Buster Keaton movies from that era, or even in Harold Lloyd's own movies. This time, he did not climb a clock tower but stayed on the ground and threw back-to-back punches at you with all natural force. It's not a mindless comedy, but a sensible one and a very meaningful film. The doctor's profession has two sides, and this film shows you that. You will fall in love with Dr. Jack's unorthodox ways of treating his patients. Harold Lloyd makes the character memorable. What a joy ride it is, and what hysteria he created. If I had one of his hats, I would have pulled one 'hats off' for him. Mildred Davis is cute, and so is the whole movie. Fred C. Newmeyer's intelligence and Lloyd's skills are unbeatable when they get a terrific script. Dr. Jack is among their individual best works ever. Now you know.
RATING - 8/10*
By - #samthebestest.
Doctor Harold Lloyd's medicine is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED for your heart, brain, stomach, and cheeks. Perhaps the best doctor-comedy ever made. Harold Lloyd and Fred C. Newmayer's duo has done it again. You can see all their films and enjoy them. But you will come back home calling "Dr. Jack" extremely underrated. I may sound a little harsh while saying this, but I got to say that Dr. Jack has made me laugh more than at least 50 films from that AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs list. To hell with the juries for not having this film there. It's their loss, not the film's, I believe. Dr. Jack lasts for 59 minutes, and almost 50 minutes of it have some creatively iconic laughter. 50 minutes, 50 outstanding gags, so if I have to mention all 50 gags and their features, then I'll have to write a 3x longer review (poor my brief review). Therefore, I won't talk about the gags and how iconic and organically funny they are, because then you'll have no fun watching them as fresh bangers. We are done with the likes of Patch Adams and Munnabhai MBBS, but believe me, Lloyd's Dr. Jack is far superior to them. It's comedy CARNAGE! You will not find such gags in many Charles Chaplin or Buster Keaton movies from that era, or even in Harold Lloyd's own movies. This time, he did not climb a clock tower but stayed on the ground and threw back-to-back punches at you with all natural force. It's not a mindless comedy, but a sensible one and a very meaningful film. The doctor's profession has two sides, and this film shows you that. You will fall in love with Dr. Jack's unorthodox ways of treating his patients. Harold Lloyd makes the character memorable. What a joy ride it is, and what hysteria he created. If I had one of his hats, I would have pulled one 'hats off' for him. Mildred Davis is cute, and so is the whole movie. Fred C. Newmeyer's intelligence and Lloyd's skills are unbeatable when they get a terrific script. Dr. Jack is among their individual best works ever. Now you know.
RATING - 8/10*
By - #samthebestest.