Sleeper (1973)

With the new Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris coming out, and it getting phenomenal reviews, I decided to finally cave in and start watching the movies of Woody Allen. And all I have to say now is-why did it take me so long? I cannot vouch for all of the films of Woody Allen, but I have to say on Sleeper-it’s pretty dang good. The film is futuristic slapstick, something that is decently difficult to do right. The film is written, directed, and starring Woody Allen as a man who wakes up 200 years in the future only to find that he is the single human being that is without an identity, so that the underground plans to use him to stop the government and the ‘Ares Project’, which is (SPOILER ALERT) a plan to recreate the dead dictator from only his…nose. (SPOILER OVER) This entire movie is like that. It is just a beautifully silly comedy, which is honestly a modern-day Three Stooges. It is that good. It is a brilliantly funny slapstick comedy that is one of the best comedy films I have ever seen. Woody Allen is just a genius. The film is rated 80th on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time. And 99% of the time, the AFI is never wrong.
9/10