Champagne Reviews

Honestly, I wasn't sure what to expect from this flick but since I'm a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock, I was really eager to check it out. Basically, it is one of his very old silent features and, honestly, I had a hard time to care about the whole thing. In fact, I would go as far as saying that it is his weakest movie I have seen so far (apparently, Hitchcock himself thought that this film was his least favorite film out of all the films he had directed.). To be honest, it wasn't a complete disaster but it wasn't far from it, I'm afraid. Indeed, even though it was a comedy, we were far from the comic genius displayed by Charles Chaplin and the whole thing was seriously tedious to watch. Basically, it deals with a really obnoxious spoiled rich girl and even though I could spot the jokes, those were barely funny. It is one of those standard plot that they used a lot back in those days about someone rich who loses its fortune, struggle during the whole thing but at the end, everything is fine again ('Donwhill' also by Hitchcock followed the same pattern). In my opinion, those stories are usually quite boring, this time, the whole thing was also pretty sketchy and the scenes were pretty random. Eventually, even if Hitchcock was a master of thriller, comedy was definitely not his cup of tea, that's pretty obvious. To conclude, it might be the weakest movie ever made by the great master and it is not really worth a look, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Alfred Hitchcock's work.