Sean Penn as Larry? Jim Carrey as Curly? Benicio Del Toro as Moe?
Aaaaaaag!
The best gag in one of the funniest movies ever, It's a Mad, Mad World, was the airplane in distress, piloted by a passenger after the pilot (Jim Bakus) dies of a heart attack. The tower is notified, the emergency truck rolls out, and just as the plane is landing, they pan past the emergency crew. It is the stooges, ready for action, still, iconic, poised for mayhem.
Their body of work had created so much audince anticipation that nothing more was needed. You knew, that whatever chaos had occured before, it was nothing like would happen after the plane was on the ground.
How can anyone, ever reproduce this?
The Farrelly Brothers are out of their minds.
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