When I tuned accidentally into this movie as it was broadcasted on french sat-TV , I ended up watching it through even though it was available only in dubbed version (which I consistently zap in a NY minute...)
When I realized that afterwards, I found several reasons for that :
* While the plot is so simple that the one displayed on the top of this movie's page suffices, and when one doesn't expect a "masterpiece", one can still enjoy a comedy where the characters are almost as caricatural as in cartoons (the good guy, the princess, the dictator, his cunnin'& plottin' assistant, the silly groom etc).
* Of course, in order to achieve that, characters had to be exaggerated as well as stretched to the limits - often beyond !!! - of all kind of realism (still think cartoons).
* When not taken seriously - as it's not supposed to be - this movie can have an effect on people that is not without reminding that of an old Chaplin or Marx Brothers (all things kept in their respective leagues, in a more policed & modest way) for the occurrences of "the absurd" or rather "the very unlikely in such a situation" help take the viewer to other spheres.
* Hence, and since the cast fulfills its comic assignment with honors, and even if this could be said about many similar movies, I can in my heart and soul prescribe a decent dose of this one to the temporarily - at least - depressed !!!
Broadcasted on french TV as : Amour sous les tropiques
When I realized that afterwards, I found several reasons for that :
* While the plot is so simple that the one displayed on the top of this movie's page suffices, and when one doesn't expect a "masterpiece", one can still enjoy a comedy where the characters are almost as caricatural as in cartoons (the good guy, the princess, the dictator, his cunnin'& plottin' assistant, the silly groom etc).
* Of course, in order to achieve that, characters had to be exaggerated as well as stretched to the limits - often beyond !!! - of all kind of realism (still think cartoons).
* When not taken seriously - as it's not supposed to be - this movie can have an effect on people that is not without reminding that of an old Chaplin or Marx Brothers (all things kept in their respective leagues, in a more policed & modest way) for the occurrences of "the absurd" or rather "the very unlikely in such a situation" help take the viewer to other spheres.
* Hence, and since the cast fulfills its comic assignment with honors, and even if this could be said about many similar movies, I can in my heart and soul prescribe a decent dose of this one to the temporarily - at least - depressed !!!
Broadcasted on french TV as : Amour sous les tropiques