Friday, July 3, 2020

How to Irritate People (1968)


IMDb plot summary: In this mock-documentary, John Cleese narrates a series of sketches on irritation -- types and techniques.
Directed by Ian Fordyce. Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, and Michael Palin.

Unsurprisingly, this mostly feels like just a longer themed episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus (though the show came later), and like many of them, some pieces are better than others. I actually maybe enjoyed John Cleese's mini monologues in between more than most of the sketches -- they had some very clever bits, while the sketches suffered a little bit from samey-ness, given the consistent theme. This is also the second film from my 1968 project that involved brownface for an Indian character, but it was much grosser here than in The Party. Overall, an inconsistent effort.

How it entered my Flickchart:
How to Irritate People < Melinda and Melinda
How to Irritate People > Green Book
How to Irritate People < The Women
How to Irritate People > Avengers: Endgame
How to Irritate People > 12 Days of Terror
How to Irritate People > Sweet and Lowdown
How to Irritate People > Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
How to Irritate People < Dark City
How to Irritate People < Confessions of a Shopaholic
How to Irritate People > Captain Marvel
How to Irritate People < The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Final spot: #2001 out of 3168.

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