Jerry Lewis
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Even when he unveils the Brown household in a dollhouse-like manner that recalls similar gags in Jerry Lewis's The Ladies Man and Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou , Paddington recalls its stylistic forbears at their best: flowing with whimsy, but never at the expense of the beating heart of its human (and animal) characters.
A zoo is a location made to order for amusing slapstick set pieces and outrageous situations -- just think what Jerry Lewis did with a hotel in "The Bellboy" and with a department store in "Who's Minding the Store?"
Jack and Jill (2011)
Directed by Dennis Dugan
influenced by The Ladies Man (1961), Hardly Working (1980)
Visuals
And Adam Sandler spends half the movie made up as a woman, yet another connection to be fostered between him and Jerry Lewis, who appeared in full drag in many of his greatest films, like The Ladies Man and Hardly Working.
And Adam Sandler spends half the movie made up as a woman, yet another connection to be fostered between him and Jerry Lewis, who appeared in full drag in many of his greatest films, like The Ladies Man and Hardly Working.
It injects new life and casts fresh perspective on his idiot clowning, the same way "The Nutty Professor" did for Lewis.
Jerry Lewis derided Nazis and turned Hitler into a comic figure in Which Way to the Front?
As Kathleen Freeman phrased it in "The Nutty Professor": "He's a gasser!"
And its actual ending treads ground already traversed by the much maligned Michael Sarne in his 1968 film Joanna (a case could be made that Jerry Lewis got there even earlier in 1964 with The Patsy).
The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
Directed by Wes Anderson
influenced by The Nutty Professor (1963)
Characters
Michael Cera’s Bjorn, a bumbling Norwegian tutor who’s allowed to tag along to add an educational dimension to this jolly jaunt and whose character feels inspired by Jerry Lewis’s The Nutty Professor…