Chaplin
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Movie Review: Chaplin
Summary: 5 Stars
Robert Downey, Jr at his best -- an oscar performance. CHAPLIN is great!. You'll want to see it again and again.Movie Review: Chaplin
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie preview!I loved it a lot .Rated PG-13 for nudity and language.Movie Review: Chaplin dvd was great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always loved this movie and now I can watch it anytime!Movie Review: Very very good
Summary: 5 Stars
Robert Downey Jr. should have won an Oscar. I have this movie.Movie Review: Downey Jr. is great but the script could have been better
Summary: 4 Stars
Chaplin manages to be an effective Bio pic of one of Hollywood's most famous Silent Film stars Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey Jr.) despite simply jumping from one moment in his life to next. For instance when Charlie says he's going to be a director, it just jumps to him saying that after that he directed over 100 movies in one year. The film is long, yet it feels rushed. Downey Jr's performance is inspired and possibly his best performance, but the film itself doesn't feel too inspired.
I mean we're supposed to believe that a woman that is only in 2 scenes was his lost love. This is how the film tries to make us believe that. Chaplin is helping a performer with her dress and sees a young actress changing, she's mad he's there, but lets him hold a mirror for her as she puts on lip-stick. Then suddenly the film jumps to them on a date and him asking her to marry him. Did I miss something ? When did he even ask her out and when did she even act like she liked him before that ? Then the film jumps to him getting invited to act in Hollywood and the film doesn't even bother showing him upset that he had to leave her or even show them say goodbye to each other.
The film introduces Kevin Kline as Chaplin's best friend just as lazy. He simply is just shown playing tennis with Chaplin and I don't think we're even shown how these 2 met. Still, Downey Jr. and Kevin Kline work excellent together. It's the case where Chaplin works due to the actors pulling through better than the script. The film manges to be moving and effective but mostly due to performances by actors like Downey Jr. and Kevin Kline.
The way Chaplin is unfairly treated like a communist by the President (Kevin Dunn) and a lawyer (James Woods) is well done though. Other than that the movie just jumps from Chaplin being with one woman to the next. It's how he was mis-treated that makes us feel for the guy. Chaplin says in public that he won't shake the hand of a Nazi, yet his film The Great Dictator where he dresses up like Hitler backfires in his face and finally gives the President a good reason to call him a communist.