I'd have to rate this as slightly above-average Keaton fare. It shows Buster trying to romance the girl away from Wallace Beery, and what would have transpired if the story had taken place in (1) the Stone Age; (2) The Roman Age, and (3) The Modern Age.
I liked them in that order, too, with more laughs with the older periods of time, although I laughed at the hardest at a couple of segments in the Roman Age. My favorite was the chariot race held in the sand. That had a number of clever things in the segment. The brief bit with the lion was funny, too, sort of a parody of the Biblical story of Daniel in the lion's den.
They were smart only going five minutes or so with each age and then going back with the story each time. Each "age" had four or five segments in total.
Nothing hilarious but definitely worth your time if you are checking out silent film comedies
I liked them in that order, too, with more laughs with the older periods of time, although I laughed at the hardest at a couple of segments in the Roman Age. My favorite was the chariot race held in the sand. That had a number of clever things in the segment. The brief bit with the lion was funny, too, sort of a parody of the Biblical story of Daniel in the lion's den.
They were smart only going five minutes or so with each age and then going back with the story each time. Each "age" had four or five segments in total.
Nothing hilarious but definitely worth your time if you are checking out silent film comedies