Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Okay, what was the most ruinously over budget movie comedy of all time? EVAN ALMIGHTY, or Warren Beatty's ill-fated TOWN AND COUNTRY, or even Stanley Kramer's IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD? A good claim to that dubious throne would be the 1967 PLAYTIME, by French slapstick master actor-filmmaker Jacques Tati, a followup to his two hits MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY and MON ONCLE.
Both hard acts to follow, and Tati invested ten years' of effort and I
don't want to guess how many francs in the third adventure of his
signature character Monsieur Hulot, a slow-trudging bachelor in a long
tan coat, accident prone, slightly timid and bewildered by the world
around him.
