Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Petri Pelkonen The Cure from 1917 is a Charles Chaplin film in which he doesn't play The Tramp character.He plays an alcoholic who enters a health spa with a big suitcase full of alcohol.There he meets a beautiful girl (Edna Purviance), who could help him become sober.At some point, all of the spa's inhabitants are loaded after the liquor ends up at the health waters.I have never been drunk in my entire life, and intend never to be, but it can be funny to watch comedians portraying drunkards on films.And Chaplin sure plays a funny drunk.And the absence of The Little Tramp isn't a problem, he was in that costume in many other movies.But how funny the movie is, that's the main issue here.And this movie is pretty funny.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) Charlie Chaplin's 24-minute short "The Cure", written directed and produced by the master himself as always, takes him playing an alcoholic to a health spa this time. It has his usual companions Eric Campbell, very bearded and wearing a cylinder, and Edna Purviance. Early on, we get some mindless revolving door fun, which gets a bit repetitive quickly and afterward inside the spa, as always all kinds of hilarious complications ensue, especially for Campbell's character, when Chaplin displays his usual devastating routine. He turns away Campbell's chair the the moment he wants to sit on it, so the colossus lands on his his giant butt. He jokingly kicks Campbell's plastered leg and many more. I don't think it's as funny as Chaplin's best, but if you're a fan of his, you'll probably like it. Also, besides Chaplin's comedic efforts, it includes a nice message for audiences almost 100 years ago about how devastating alcohol can be to the extent that it can possibly destroy your life and doesn't make you exactly attractive to women (Purviance here) either.

rdjeffers Monday October 1, 7:00pm, The Paramount Theater An affluent inebriate (Charles Chaplin) visits a health spring for "the water cure" and inadvertently pollutes the well with liquor, intoxicating all the guests. The Cure was Chaplin's tenth of twelve "Mutual Specials" and dealt with a socially sensitive issue only months before the eighteenth amendment established a national prohibition of alcohol. Charlie arrives at the spa, under the influence, and dodders into the revolving glass entry door. An enormous guest "With The Gout" (Eric Campbell) entangles himself in the door with Charlie and an attendant (John Rand). Chaplin's use of this device rivals the clever originality of the escalator in The Floorwalker. Campbell's bandaged foot is smashed in the door and stepped on repeatedly throughout the film. Charlie wrestles with the violent masseur (Henry Bergman), swims without getting in the pool, and rescues the girl (Edna Purviance) from drunken aggressors while engaging in his typically playful and humorous "business."

Robert J. Maxwell This is among Chaplin's most successful shorts and is certainly one of the funniest. There's no sense in describing any of the gags, I don't suppose, because for instance how can you describe an exquisitely choreographed pratfall in print? A visual medium like film loses something in translation into language, just as written works lose in translation to film.Humor in silent films must be difficult to begin with. Because speech is conveyed only by a handful of title cards, the situations we see must be universally understood before gags can be built on them. Chaplin was a genius at showing us a situation and then turning it funny.I'll have to add a couple of more specific notes though. One is that there is a scene in which Eric Campbell, the huge guy with the gout, is rolled too quickly in his wheelchair and when it suddenly jerks to a halt he falls out of it and goes head first down a well that is barely wide enough to accommodate him. The figure isn't Campbell's. It's a stunt man, who instructed the crew to keep filming as long as his legs were kicking out of the well. When they stopped kicking, the stunt man was quickly retrieved.Another point is that Chaplin's work has been chopped up over the years and reassembled as if by the drunken character he plays here. Most available tapes are fuzzy and incomplete, but the DVD, Chaplin's Mutuals, is crisp and clear and about as good as it's likely to get. Another is Chaplin's astonishing nimbleness. Portraying a drunk in a silent movie is much harder than actually BEING drunk. The revolving door scene shows him at his most adroit. He tries drunkenly to enter the building through a revolving door, whirls around 360 degrees, and emerges at the same spot he entered. A few more staggering steps while he looks curiously around, apparently pleased at what the building looks like from the inside.Well, see, it does lose in the translation. See it if you can.