Sometimes comedians can make one film too many.A prime example is Laurel & Hardy.
The Crazy Gang were a British Institution,but then again so was hanging and the cat o' nine tails at about the same time,and quite frankly they'll none of them be missed as those other British Institutions Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan once said. Between the wars in a long - lost London of thick fogs,trams and coaster - mongers,The Crazy Gang ,by dint of assiduous forelock tugging, became favourites of the Royal Family,a crazy gang in their own right, and - by extension extremely popular with chirpy cockneys who flocked to see their shows often conveniently based in Victoria - handy for a pint of Watneys with George and Liz back at Buck House no doubt.
LIFE IS A CIRCUS is a sorry cinematic epitaph for the once great British comedians The Crazy Gang. Live on stage they were spontaneous, ludicrous and often hilarious - the forerunners of The Goons and Monty Python: but in this tedious fiasco they sadly look well past their sell-by date.
