A Day's Pleasure

While definitely not amongst his most hilarious, "A Day's Pleasure" is still very entertaining and showcases Chaplin's inventiveness quite well: otherwise mundane settings, such as on a boat trip or at a crossroads, become the basis of a myriad gags, a couple of which might make you gasp even today, an entire century later.

To this day, my family won't really go on vacations together because they usually ended up something like the disastrous events of the day trip chronicled in A Day's Pleasure. It's minor Chaplin, certainly, a collection of gags more than anything else, but it's breezy, charming and ultimately well-executed. I think the Tar sequence that closes it is terrific.

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Occasionally funny in a goofy sort of way, though it definitely feels like a lazy throwback for Chaplin. As disconnected gag pictures go, there are certainly worse out there, but the bits all stretch on for too long. Also, this is the the third time Chaplin's trotted out the rocking camera trick on a boat, and it really isn't helping the tepid dance scene and the time-killing deck chair scene any.

Don't know how to rank

The bookended car scenes are the best part of this film as Charlie otherwise comes across looking like a boorish and uncaring individual. However, the early scene of starting the car has him running around foolishly trying to fix it, and then later, as the car sticks in tar, Charlie again has some nice gags. However, the longer middle section on the boat really has little to recommend in it. Just not funny.

No laughs at all. Various critics have made a big deal of how while "ordinary" comics use the "laugh at this idiot" theme, Chaplin's work is supposed to be so much deeper, more human, etc. because we've been laughing at somebody for whom we should have been crying; Chaplin's character doesn't even come across as a very nice fellow in this one, which makes it even worse than Chaplin's stuff usually is

Has a couple of good gags, including the tar bit, but nothing groundbreaking.