Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Prismark10 Block-Heads is the last film Laurel & Hardy made for Hal Roach, it is longer than their normal shorts but at least it is not padded out with musical dance numbers.It starts off in 1917 with the duo in the trenches fighting in France during World War 1. Laurel has been left behind guarding the trenches as Hardy and the rest of the troops went over the top. The trouble is no one told Laurel that the war has been over for 20 years.At a veterans home Laurel is reunited with Hardy and that is when trouble begins as Hardy invites him home for a steak dinner but Oliver's wife has other ideas, before long their female neighbour comes to help but Hardy needs to make sure he does not get caught in a an uncompromising position.The film is a series of skits from Hardy thinking Laurel has lost his leg and carrying him home, to Laurel crashing a car in Hardy's garage, the lift not working so the duo climb the steps and get involved in disputes with the residents plus a lot, lot more.After this film the duo headed for a decline but this is one of the best.

Leofwine_draca Since I was a kid, BLOCK-HEADS was one of my favourite Laurel and Hardy feature-length movies. There's truly nothing to dislike about this one; from the opening, which paints an unusual but successfully comedic slant on the horrors of WW1, to the vintage spousal comedy which evolves when Ollie brings Stan home to tea.My favourite part of the feature, though, is the mid-section which involves the troublesome twosome climbing 13 flights of stairs in order to reach Ollie's apartment. The antics they get up to in this section are truly side-splitting, invariably involving the great James Finlayson, a brattish kid and some weird shadows. It's the stuff of comedy gold, and seeing it today I'm once again surprised at how it hasn't dated in the slightest.Inevitably, Laurel is the true star here, playing off his weird activities against Hardy's increasingly exasperated straight-man. The stuff with the hand-pipe and the glass of water are smaller gags, but in many ways I like them better than the bigger stuff. BLOCK-HEADS is an all-time comedy classic and a film I can watch over and over without getting bored.

jraskin-1 I just watched Block-Heads as part of the newly-released "Essentials" DVD collection, and thought it was very enjoyable. Although it was one of the boys later efforts for Hal Roach, the energy and slapstick were still to be seen in full force. I have scanned the user reviews for Block-Heads on IMDb, and did not see any reference to something that I believe slipped by the censors, and obviously most viewers. I was a bit startled to notice that at the 54:50 mark of the film, as Mrs. Hardy slams the non-working phone down, she seems to utter the s-word! Check it out, and see if you hear what I hear. This curse word seems to be quite audible, more so than Edgar Kennedy's s-word slip in "Perfect Day." Minna Gombell, playing Mrs. Hardy, had obviously worked herself up into such a state of agitation, that this word just seemed to slip out, and strangely, no one seemed to notice!

JoeytheBrit Relations with producer Hal Roach were strained when the boys made this short feature (or long short) and it wouldn't be long before they made the fateful decision to throw in their lot with 20th Century Fox, a move that would mark a slow, painful and irreversible decline. This is one of the last of the films that shows them almost consistently at the top of their game - although even here the cracks are beginning to show. When comedians start relying on re-working their own material from nearly a decade before - as Stan and Ollie do here in the final reel which is a virtual scene for scene remake of their first talkie Unaccustomed as We Are - you know something isn't right.This one's probably best remembered for the opening sequence which sees Stan still guarding his company's trench twenty years after the end of the Great War. It's a funny idea, and the boys get a huge amount of mileage out of it. When Ollie reads about his old friend's remarkable return from the dead he naturally wants to see him again. Big mistake. Within hours of meeting up again Stan has managed to bury Ollie's car in builder's sand, drive it into his garage door, blow up his kitchen, get him into a fight with James Finlayson and send his wife packing. Added to all the usual slapstick and pratfalls are some truly surreal moments such as when Stan pulls down the shadow blinds and when he smokes a pipe made out of his thumb. Definitely one of the boy's films that can be watched over and over again.