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Play Movie Trivia. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Penelope Gilliatt Observer (UK) This is a grim new variant...
Jan 21, 2014 · "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is essentially a symphony of slapstick—imagine a Three Stooges short writ extra-large—and one of the things about the film that raised the most eyebrows at the time was that the conductor of the barely contained chaos was none other than Stanley Kramer.
It's a long, long, long, long classic comedy chase-epic. Read Common Sense Media's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Dick Shawn, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy
- Stanley Kramer
- MGM/UA
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Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners per...
The general release version of Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worldreceives an impressive Blu-ray from Criterion in a new deluxe dual-format edition (five discs in total.) The film is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.76:1 on a dual-layer Blu-ray disc with a 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer, and on a dual-layer DVD with a s...
Criterion delivers the original 5.1 surround track in Dolby Digital on the DVD and DTS-HD MA on the Blu-ray. It’s a loud movie, very over the top, and the surround track certainly captures that. Dialogue remains primarily in the front center speaker while music seems to be divvied up between the speakers, and both are delivered clearly with superb ...
It sounds as though the Fox/MGM Blu-ray shares the same audio and video transfer as this edition, so for many that might be good enough. I haven’t seen that edition, but I think it’s safe to say that the Criterion edition has it beat in one area, and it’s the area most fans of the film will be thrilled with: the supplements! Criterion loads the sup...
Despite one’s feelings on the film it’s hard to deny that Criterion has done an incredible job on this edition. With such a sharp audio and video transfer, and a wealth of supplements, including a reconstruction of the film’s longer version, this comes with a high recommendation. BUY AT:
456 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. A Comedy Classic that Still Holds Up... ijonesiii 28 December 2005. A couple of years ago, I finally managed to get IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD on video. I saw it as a kid and remember enjoying it but watching it again for 40 years later, I still found myself LMAO.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose and Tania Rose. The film, starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast of comedians, is about the madcap pursuit of a suitcase full of stolen cash by a colorful group of strangers.
