The Muppets TV show actually had such a joke: a TV reporter interviews a wig maker, and the reporter sniffs a wig and asks, "Don't you ever use shampoo on them?" Replies the wig maker, "No we only use real poo." I am not making this up.
If you thought the joke was childish, try this movie. Ironically enough, I rented it on the basis that it was mentioned as a good movie by none other than the infamous film snob Pauline Kael. I figured that if she recommends a movie, it therefore has to be great. But I got disabused of this notion fast.
The story is about a hairdresser (presumed to be gay, ha-ha) who is sleeping with a number of girlfriends. I was expecting a bedroom farce, but the laughs were nonexistent. The story takes place on Election Eve in 1968, but that seems unrelated to the story. Perhaps the movie was meant to be a social satire, but I missed what the target was.
The movie is not only unfunny, it's slow-moving and boring. We find no reason to like or relate to the hairdresser. But when it is revealed he is sleeping both with a woman AND her daughter simultaneously, that was too repulsive and we switched it off. The hairdresser isn't merely a womanizer, he's a genuine creep. We didn't care what would happen to him in the end, we wanted nothing more to do with him.
If you thought the joke was childish, try this movie. Ironically enough, I rented it on the basis that it was mentioned as a good movie by none other than the infamous film snob Pauline Kael. I figured that if she recommends a movie, it therefore has to be great. But I got disabused of this notion fast.
The story is about a hairdresser (presumed to be gay, ha-ha) who is sleeping with a number of girlfriends. I was expecting a bedroom farce, but the laughs were nonexistent. The story takes place on Election Eve in 1968, but that seems unrelated to the story. Perhaps the movie was meant to be a social satire, but I missed what the target was.
The movie is not only unfunny, it's slow-moving and boring. We find no reason to like or relate to the hairdresser. But when it is revealed he is sleeping both with a woman AND her daughter simultaneously, that was too repulsive and we switched it off. The hairdresser isn't merely a womanizer, he's a genuine creep. We didn't care what would happen to him in the end, we wanted nothing more to do with him.