Streaming The Magic Christian Online
Friday, August 1, 2014 by mbokde
The Magic Christian (1969)iMDB Rating: 6.2Date Released : 12 December 1969
Genre : Comedy
Stars : Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Caroline Blakiston
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB
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Sir Guy Grand adopts homeless bum Youngman to be heir to his obscene wealth, and immediately begins bringing him into the intricacies of the family business, which is to prey upon people's greed by use of the vast holdings of the Grand empire. They leave no stone unturned as sporting events, restaurants, art galleries, and traditional pheasant hunts turn into lurid displays of bad manners and profiteering. Things climax at the social event of the season, the inaugural voyage of the new pleasure cruiser The Magic Christian.
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Review :
What's wrong with you people?
This is a fine, fine film!
I expected this film to have a much more sizeable cult following, considering it's really unlike almost any film ever made, and just about everyone you'd know from the British comedy scene at the time stars, and Sellers, Terry Southern (writer of "Dr Strangelove"), Graham Chapman and John Cleese wrote the script.
You might say "too many cooks...", but not a bit of it! It's hilarious from start to finish, and plays out like a surreal dream of one man alone. No over-written, soulless, think-tank comedy offering is this.
It works also as a social commentary, as Sellers' character Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE sets out into polite upper-crust society with Ringo Starr, playing his newly adopted son and heir, Youngman Grand, Esq. (aren't you laughing already?) to prove that anyone will do anything for money. He achieves his aim, and unearths many more absurdities along the way.
Class, tradition, sport, authority and a whole plethora of everyday realities are all unmasked and shown to be meaningless facades when faced with the unexpected.
Having said this, it's the truly unexpected comedy moments that I love this film for, and the sense that anything is possible if the absurd reality we live in is.
I haven't even attempted an objective review of this film, but any comedy defies objective analysis to an extent. This one especially. I simply loved it.
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