Battling Butler

Unlike the previous (and apparently more widely known and slightly better reviewed) Go West, I like this one much better. The humor is again not all that goofy, but it doesn't matter, as it is still very effective and there is a lot of it. The story is a classic swap comedy in the best sense of the word, with Buster Keaton playing the spoiled rich guy perfectly... And when he finally starts to train in the ring in the finale, he is afraid of his opponents like the devil is of the cross, and he wrestles more with the ropes (which he cannot seem to climb over) than with the opponents, and this has to make pretty much everyone laugh. (03/12/2014)