Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Directed by Charles Reisner
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
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What critics compared Steamboat Bill, Jr. to
…an early chase scene aboard a train visually nodding to the iconic housefront gag in “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”
Homages to Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Jaws, A Trip to the Moon, The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Metropolis are among the many callbacks movie fans can enjoy.
Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Buster Keaton’s 1928 film “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” Keaton is not the titular character and this film is best known for the facade of a house falling down, barely missing Keaton’s character.
Kids will surely be delighted to see the likes of A Trip to the Moon, Modern Times, Safety Last!, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Casablanca, and more, rendered through the frivolous lens of Illumination’s anodyne, elastic, rounded animation style…
…a brief glimpse on a television of the Buster Keaton gag in which a two-story house collapses around him from the film Steamboat Bill Jr. offers an inkling of the general frame of reference for Ballerina’s headspace.
…(in particular, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”)