Carambola’s Philosophy: In the Right Pocket / Carambola, filotto … tutti in buca (Ferdinando Baldi, 1975)

[Mickey13]

Copied from the Spagvemberfest 2023 thread:

@Mickey13

Let’s face it, Baldi had no aptitude for comedy whatsoever as is evidenced by this series of films of questionable comedic merit. This is basically the same as what is found in the first installment, except that this time, the overall storyline does not even deign to dignify its audience with a concrete tale as such and upon dispensing with any semblance of serious craftsmanship, proceeds to disgorge the single vignette which is then taken and subsequently repeated over and over again, except that it is enacted in different loci and circumstances so as to bamboozle its unsuspecting viewer into thinking they are witnessing some kind of progression in this quasi-formless string of inanities disguised as a narrative.

The biggest issue undoubtedly dwells in that basically none of this is even remotely funny insofar as one feels sorely disoriented; one becomes chagrined at the realization that so many of these contrived situations are intended to provoke wild laughter, yet most of these bootless jokes simply taper off even before they are over and then they go on and on and on, prolonging this folderol by half an hour at least, which highlights the arrant dearth of substance. With the exception of ten to fifteen minutes in the middle which prove mildly amusing after a fashion, the motion picture seems content with plumbing the depths of bromidic ineptitude with little regard for scripting integrity and meaningful plot development. There is no conceivable reason to view this unless you are a glutton for punishment and want to test your endurance, but then again, there are better and more productive ways of doing that.