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Summary: Funny!
Review: It wears a bit with age, but it is still funny . . very funny. The premise of resuscitation is not yet here, but it is undoubtedly getting closer to a possibility and it will be interesting to see how accurate Woody's gem is then . . .
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Summary: Funny!
Review: It wears a bit with age, but it is still funny . . very funny. The premise of resuscitation is not yet here, but it is undoubtedly getting closer to a possibility and it will be interesting to see how accurate Woody's gem is then . . .
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Summary: Side-splitting
Review: It's not often I laugh out loud at a film but this one nearly had me thrown out of the cinema the first time and still has that effect. There are so many funny bits in this that you'll soon learn them off by heart and start using them in conversation, if only you can deliver them like Woody Allen.
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Summary: Slapstick Humor with a Touch of Cerebral Activity!
Review: Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) is awakened from a cryogenetic sleep and realizes that he has been sleeping for 200 years. Besides recovering from the trauma of knowing that he has lost all his friends and family, he also finds out that the government is after him. He is a fugitive from the law, since it is illegal to wake up or be one of those who has been frozen. In an escape from the law he stumbles across Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton), who is a feeble minded poet, with whom he attempts to halt the Aries program. Sleeper is a slapstick comedy with clever interjections consisting of significant notions, which will provide a pleasant cinematic experience.
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Summary: Sleeper
Review: Obviously another one of Woody Allen's best. The fake fruits and vegetables in one scene turned me off, but other than that, Woody Allen's acting makes it definitely worth watching.
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Summary: Nicotine Is One of the Healthiest Substances on Earth!
Review: One wonders if something really bad happened to Woody Allen a few years ago. Well, we know THAT happened, but something that hurt his sense of humor. The recent stuff really just pales to the brilliance found in the early work. While Sleeper is not the best Allen movie, it fits a clever science fiction premise with Woody's infectious brand of observational and situational humor that's never been genuinely duplicated ever since. Not that he ever did, but in Sleeper, Woody takes himself a bit less seriously, adding in some hilarious slap sticks elements to his otherwise high brow humor.Sleeper tells the story of Miles Monroe, a health food store owner who was cryogenically frozen in the 1970's. Allen pulls off the role of a frenetic confused eccentric thrown into an even more harried situation than 70's Manhattan very well, with his trademark irreverent style mixed with some genuine but joyous situational confusion. It works extremely well. Allen awakes to a world hardly attractive to the more serious minded, but one that must have brought some joy to its inhabitants because of its sheer hilarity. Although a dictatorship, the world of the future is ruled by a more comic than horrifying secret police, who seemed to have sought out the worst of 1970's club fashion and made it their own particular brand of blackshirting gone mad. Other segments of the populace include the inept but oddly charming robot servants. The robo maids are often employed by the same glamour set that inhabited Allen's oft parodied Manhattan civilization. This collection of air head artists and intellectuals has an odd aversion to anything serious, preferring to concentrate more on the drug known as "the orb" and the orgasmotron, a device which circumvents the silly human obsession with actual physical attachment. Allen is tasked by the underground to infiltrate the government in order to overthrow it. Of course, he runs into all kinds of problems. Along the way, he runs into his old pal Diane Keaton, a futuristic socialite with the unerring sense of social duplicity. However, Allen's lackluster dedication to the cause wins her over, and they begin a journey of liberation. Other amazing attributes of the world of the future are highlighted, such as the silly 20th century notion that cigarettes and fatty food were bad for you. Who knew? Allen's ability to poke fun at every attribute of both future and present society are in full display with this movie, and it never lapses into seriousness or future theory. It's just a very enjoyable comedy made by the master when he was the master, and it should be enjoyed by newcomers to Woody and his fans alike.
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Summary: The "party scene" is enough to make this a classic in itself
Review: Retro-cool, low budget, futuristic and ultra-chic, this comedy has it all. Not the typical Woody Allen film, and Allen is not for the typical audience, so the title is fitting. It's a glimpse of what Woody Allen USED to be ie "Without Feathers" and Take the Money & Run, but in his one attempt at science fiction. I'm definitely a Woody Allen fan yet there are a few of his films I will not watch. Annie Hall is my number 1, after that Manhattan, Hannah & Her Sisters (I've seen this one 10 times I think), but Sleeper is in a class by itself, so it's usually overlooked by most fans. To enjoy this film: relax, look for cheap yet clever special effects, the coolest sets, wardrobes, and dispositions you can ask for. The gay scene is hilarious. The party Diane Keaton throws could be the prototype of a subculture in itself. How this film has eluded cult status I do not know.
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Summary: 30 years later and I'm still laughing
Review: Sleeper is an amazing film. It manages to incorporate humor, a dystopian future, absurdism, slapstick and social significance with only a few dated jokes. The mark of great art is how well it holds up. Released in 1973 I saw the theatrical release at least 15 times with friends, much like DVD parties thrown today. There are many quotable lines and humor that works on multiple levels. Having recently purchasing Sleeper and seeing if for the first time in at least 20 years I found myself able to quote favorite lines and look forward to favorite sceens. Allen borrowed his visual style to a degree from Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' including the little moving glass bird figure. Other influences include Marx Brothers style slapstick. The chemistry between Allen and Diane Keaton starts to show, his next film, 'Love and Death' would find each actor on an even footing in terms of screen time and comic moments. My favorite sceens are Miles (Allen's character) indoctrination into his new government based life, think 1984 but funny and the rescue and caper sections where sparks fly and classic plays die. :) Although a humorless review this is a good laugh out loud film that has a good transfer to DVD although the sound is only decent. There is a reason people used to ask Woody Allen, "why don't you make funny movies like you used to" and Sleeper is one of the funny movies they are talking about.
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Summary: Sleeper is a great movie
Review: Sleeper is possibly Woody Allen's best movie, and that is a huge compliment to that movie. It is easily one of my favorite comedies ever, if not my favorite. Everything about this movie is funny, and if you watch this movie again, you will notice about 50 more jokes then you did the first time. A must see if not a must buy.
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Summary: Rocks your face off
Review: Sleeper is to rocks your face off good, as 2 Fast 2 Furious is to hungry badger in my pants bad.
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