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Andréanne Andi Dion
27Mar12
To this day, one of the funniest movies I've ever seen! Funny, deep and beautiful!
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mauriciodiniz_
21Nov11
Speachless. One of the best speachs I've ever seen. Makes me cry EVERYTIME I watch it.
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ana kinukawa
25Sep11
a genious can be and do everything and anything. chaplin was one of them. not just funny, but romantic and dramatic. not just an entertainer, but someone who intended to alert and inform. in this movie his star is clear. how brave he was for talking about the untalkable. and doing it so gracefully! sometimes there's no need to use violence to talk about it. comedy when well done can be much more provocative...
Inner Pattern
15Sep11
Sure it probably isn't Chaplin's best on a technical level but it's now my favorite of his and I'm including Modern Times and City Lights.I prefer the comedy in this film. The speech at the end is now one of my all time favorites...'We think too much and feel too little'.
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Inner Pattern
10Sep11
I thought this was pretty cool. It takes Chaplin's speech from the film and mixes it with news and other stock footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&feature=mh_lolz&list=LLcUidB-fI0Qb6MTym0i0Q5A
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Posterocalypse
27Jun11
It's not quite as fun as his earlier films, but there's no denying what an important cinematic endeavor this was. Come for the globe dance, stay for the brilliant and powerful end-of-film speech.
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Daniel Duffy
25Jun11
What can be said that hasn't already been said? I guess I'll just say it again, but despite the film's flaws (mentioned below by others), this is a masterpiece of cinematic writing & directing. This is the first non-silent Chaplin film I've seen, and it's no surprise to me that it stands the test of time.
Bobby Wise
16Jun11
Is this film so different from "Inglourious Basterds" in the method and style of its satirical comedy? I don't mean in the sum total of their respective artistic achievements. Both films play fast and loose with (historical) reality and fiction. Both employ awkward comedic slapstick. I'd play both on a double-bill because I think the films engage in an interesting dialogue with each other.
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catch_33
11Jun11
In incredibly flawed film as Chaplin struggles to adapt to sound he loses some of the visual charm and wit of earlier works. Some sequences are fantastic such as the coin in the pudding and Hynkel's globe dance. The ending speech however is perhaps one of the most powerful moments in cinema history. A great achievement by a great artist and one of the most significant films of all time, espite its flaws.
redunbeck
18May11
When a movie can have you laughing your head off in one scene, and on the edge of your seat with dread in the next, without ever feeling strange or disjointed, you know you're watching something special. And this masterpiece is definitely something special. This is one of Chaplin's finest hours.
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aRoseisaRoseis
28Nov10
I'm just amazed how he somehow manages to incorporate moments of such sheer beauty like the final speech into every movie of his.
All Is Grace
17Jun10
The Final speech is what makes this film a truly great achievement for Chaplin.
floserber
12Mar10
In the final speech, Chaplin is neither the barber nor Hynkel in this particular moment, he is only the artist, speaking about hope and fears, this sequence took my breath away, he was so passionate in his humanist belief, he couldn't really know all about the horror the world would discovered five years later.