Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Pros: Original...
Cons: Not funny...annoying, really

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is a very chaotic British comedy about the making of a movie based on the book Tristam Shandy. Though I have not read the book, I’ve heard it was an awful mess that jumps all over the place. Sounds ...

Pros: Witty, clever, anarchistic outrageous comedy
Cons: lots of very british-based humor

It’s an outrageous satiric comedy about making a movie of an unfilmable 18th century book. The reason I rushed to see this one—knowing very little about it was because it was directed by Michael Winterbottom, one of the most interesting ...

Pros: Some metafictional sequences; Stephen Fry; DVD bonus materials; second-hand music
Cons: Coogan; contrived set pieces; forced humor and abject situations

It's been a long time since I read (well, half or quarter-read) Laurence Sterne's pre-post-Modernist (!) late 18th Century novel, Tristram Shandy. But I certainly remember enough of the novel's Rabelaisian (bawdy) and Cervantean ...

Pros: Direction, Script, Satire, Locations, Music, & Cast.
Cons: Some Might Not Get the Film's British Humor.

The story of Tristram Shandy from novelist Laurence Stern was a vast, long story in nine volumes that revealed the eccentric humor of Britain. The story of Tristram Shandy was so popular that the idea of film versions of it seemed ...

Pros: I honestly have no idea...
Cons: I honestly have no idea...

I think that as an American, we view movies differently. We are trained to view movies, with normal three act structures, expect there to be high stakes, and active antagonists. So, when a movie comes along and flat out breaks every rule in the book, it ...

Pros: Wonderfully witty and original, and full of delightful performances.
Cons: It's not for everyone.

This is, I think, a very funny movie- but it's not one that everyone is going to enjoy. Tristram Shandy is a very famous novel, and one that caused a sensation when it was published in the 18th Century as no one had ever written anything quite like ...

Pros: Clever wry humor
Cons: A bit stuffy and condensending at times.

http://www.filmcriticsunited.c om QUICK THOUGHTS: “Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” is a good movie, very funny, but probably not for everyone. It’s a British film, replete with British humor and British stylings. It’s a movie about a couple of ...