Sleeper (1973)
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"In the future, everyone plays the straight man to Woody Allen. Thanks to the durability of the genre’s clichés and the star’s innate pessimism, Sleeper gets away with both mocking and exulting in notions of a dystopian future. Slapstick set pieces center around everything from the unfreezing of Allen’s cryogenically preserved everyman to a swank party dominated by an erotically stimulating orb; it’s an exhilarating mismatch of Marx Brothers mayhem with Kubrickian cool. Society is contro"
"The sort of high-concept comedy Allen would abandon by the late 1970s, Sleeper is, plainly, a master class in comic riffing. The film, co-written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, is pockmarked with parodies of various works of science fiction. Allen plays Miles Monroe, another take on his trademark nebbish, who finds himself cryofrozen in 1973 only to wake up 200 years hence. The comedy comes not, as you might expect, from the fish-out-of-water’s stunned reactions to the advancements of the fut"
" 1973 my rating : 3.5=Very Good - My Pleasure Meter : 4.0/5.0 Stars "
" Notes: Honestly, it has been a while since I have seen this flick so maybe I should watch it again at some point to make up my mind for good about the damned thing. As far as I can remember, I think it must be the only science-fiction feature directed by Woody Allen. Of course, it is and remains a comedy but it was set in a futuristic world which was something quite unexpected from this director and this combination sounded really awesome. Unfortunately, even though I thought it was fairly amu"
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" Notes: Honestly, it has been a while since I have seen this flick so maybe I should watch it again at some point to make up my mind for good about the damned thing. As far as I can remember, I think it must be the only science-fiction feature directed by Woody Allen. Of course, it is and remains a comedy but it was set in a futuristic world which was something quite unexpected from this director and this combination sounded really awesome. Unfortunately, even though I thought it was fairly amu"