Sometimes it's quite surprising to find out about a movie that no one
has ever told you off before but turns out to be a real hidden
treasure. "My Favorite Year" is a more than great comedy, that is fun,
as well as funny to watch.
Key to what makes this a great movie to watch, is that it's being a fun
one throughout. It's a fast going, snappy comedy, that doesn't
necessarily force or exaggerate its comedy, to any extreme forms. It's
playing things more subtly and more often relies on its dialog and
actors, rather than on any comical situations. It makes the movie very
pleasant and likable, also because it manages to maintain its good
quick pace throughout its entire running time.
The story really doesn't matter all that much for this movie, other
than taking the characters from the one place and situation to the
other. I'm not saying that it isn't any good but to me it just wasn't
important for what this movie was all about and trying to do. Even the
weaker moments in this movie and its story still work out well, thanks
to its characters and the actors portraying them.
Peter O'Toole plays Errol Flynn, even though his character is named
differently in the movie. But he is Flynn and even plays some of the
sequences out of some classic Errol Flynn movies. This all was great
fun to watch and his presence truly adds a lot to this movie as well.
He's perfectly classy and often despicable at the same time. But Mark
Linn-Baker was also truly great! Whatever went wrong with his career?
He was not only a great comedy actor but simply just a great actor in
general as well.
The movie has a more old fashioned type of comedy vibe to it, like a
'40's production, which is also the time period this movie is being set
in (well, the '50's but still), so it's no big surprise or a
coincidence all. If you are a fan of these type of snappy and screwball
like comedies, from the '40's mostly, changes are you will also
absolutely love this movie as well!
Anyway, this movie is an extremely fun and recommendable one, for
everybody!
8/10
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