Sorry, this movie sucks

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Just caught this, one of the earliest films directed by star Charlie Chaplin, on a DVD collection called "American Slapstick". In this one, The Tramp runs afoul of a married couple, first at a park bench, and then at a hotel. The wife of this couple turns out to be a sleepwalker. Also, The Tramp is drunk during much of this. That's all I'll say except while I found much amusing in the beginning and I liked Charlie's constant slipping down the stairs nearly every time he tries to go up them, it just lost steam after that for me. Good thing he'd get much better later on. Oh, and there's also a man whose foot is heavily bandaged and that Chaplin keeps stepping on that was also good for a few laughs. So on that note, Caught in the Rain is worth a look.

Chaplin edited his first film and directed his second with Caught In The Rain. It's somewhat of a disappointment compared to his first effort Twenty Minutes Of Love. The film seems to run smooth and has less cutting that's amateurish in comparison to films of the era. The plot; however, is typical Chaplin causing trouble and generally getting the short end of the stick. Charlie accosts a couple in the park and gets in trouble with the husband (once again). The couple retire to a hotel where Chaplin happens to go also. Of course there's a mix-up of Charlie going into their room and the wife going into his, but she's a sleep-walker of course! Things get sorted out quickly and Charlie is left in the rain. ** of 4 stars.

The early films of Charlie Chaplin just haven't aged well. Despite his well deserved reputation as a comedy genius, most of his very early shorts from 1914-1916 or so are just dreadful by today's standards. They are just too short and amateurish to be or any interest except to film historians or to strange people like me who are trying to see every available Chaplin film.This film is all to familiar material for the early films with themes involving Charlie being drunk, making passes at married women and Mabel Normand sleepwalking. There is really nothing very original here, but for what it is it is a fairly decent film.

Although this is not an earth-shaking classic, it is a very pleasant little film.Charlie is not yet, as W.C. Fields would later call him, "the world's best ballet dancer", but he takes his falls gracefully. Even more, he permits his other actors their moments in the light. Mack Swain is -- not surprisingly -- very good and even Alice Davenport, as Mack's sleep-walking wife, gets some very funny moments. Chaplin clearly has the film as his primary consideration and his performance take secondary consideration. This was one of the reasons he was able to flourish as an actor-director for thirty years.But if you're looking for a work of comic genius, this is not it. Chaplin never did any of those at Keystone. Their brand of farce did not really suit him.