Okay, this Stan Laurel film is far from great and a very far cry from the films he did with Oliver Hardy. However, when you compare it to other solo comedy shorts from the same period, this one is pretty good and has a few cute scenes plus it is far better than the slapstick films a decade earlier because this one at least has a plot (many earlier comedies didn't). But don't expect any magic here--just a few mildly funny scenes were Stan tries to sneak out of paying a restaurant bill or avoid a cop. Stan's timing on his own isn't bad but you can see why in this and other solo shorts he made he wasn't a first tier star. The policeman, by the way, was Noah Young--and you may have seen him in many of Harold Lloyd's films, as they did a lot together.
Review of Just Rambling Along
