Wedding Slips is a messy, dusty silent comedy that's actually kind of fun

Is this worth watching today? Honestly, yeah, if you have twenty minutes and you like seeing 1920s cars get absolutely destroyed for the sake of a joke.

If you're the type who needs a deep plot or high-resolution visuals, you are going to hate this. It's grainy, it's loud (even though it's silent), and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Monte Collins and Lucille Hutton play the newlyweds, and they have this energy like they just drank way too much coffee before the cameras started rolling.

The movie starts with them in a car, and you just know that car isn't going to make it to the end of the reel. It looks like it’s made out of cardboard and prayer.

They crash into this gypsy camp, and it is every single trope you can imagine from that era. There’s a lot of bandanas and people looking suspiciously at the camera for no real reason.

I noticed one guy in the background who just keeps adjusting his hat. It’s way too big for him and it keeps covering his eyes during the "dramatic" moments. 😂

Lucille Hutton spends most of the time looking genuinely annoyed about her dress getting dusty. I don't blame her, the set looks like it hasn't seen rain in a decade.

The car crash itself is pretty funny because the car basically just... disintegrates. It doesn't explode, it just sort of turns into a pile of scrap metal instantly.

Then the law shows up, because of course they do. There’s always a cop in these shorts who looks like he’s never actually arrested anyone in his life.

It reminded me a bit of the frantic pacing in Reno or Bust, but with more dirt and fewer jokes that actually land.

There is this one scene with a fortune teller that feels like it goes on for about three minutes too long. She’s doing all these mysterious hand gestures but she just looks like she's trying to remember where she left her keys.

Monte Collins has this face that is just constantly in motion. His mustache is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the acting department.

I liked the part where he tries to explain the crash to the camp leader. He’s waving his arms around and pointing at the pile of metal that used to be a Ford.

The camp leader just stares at him with this look of pure boredom. I think the actor was actually bored. It felt very real.

Cinematic perspective: Exploring the visual vocabulary of Wedding Slips (1928) through its definitive frames.

It’s a bit messier than something like The Best People. That one feels like a movie, whereas this feels like a group of people who found a camera and decided to break a car.

I noticed a dog in the corner of the frame during the big argument scene. The dog looks very confused by all the humans shouting silently at each other.

The legal trouble part is kind of vague. Something about a stolen item or maybe just being in the wrong place? It doesn't really matter, it’s just an excuse for more running around.

The editing is very jumpy. One second they are by the car, the next second they are inside a tent, and I’m pretty sure the lighting changed three times in between.

But that’s why I like these old shorts. They feel human and imperfect in a way that modern stuff never does.

It’s definitely better than Daily Dozens, which I found to be a bit too repetitive even for a short.

There is a weird moment where the bride just starts laughing for no reason. I think Lucille actually broke character and they just kept it in because they couldn't afford another take.

The costumes are... well, they are definitely costumes. They look like they were pulled out of a trunk five minutes before the scene started.

The whole thing ends pretty abruptly. You don't really get a sense of "happily ever after," just a sense of "thank god that's over."

If you've seen The Last Straw, you know how these slapstick endings go. Everyone just sort of stops moving eventually.

I’d say watch it if you’re into the history of physical comedy. Or if you just want to see a car get wreckt.

It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s got a weird heart to it. 🎥

I still can't get over that guy's oversized hat. It really was the best part of the movie for me.

Anyway, it's a short one, so you don't lose much if you don't like it. Just don't expect it to be profound or anything.

It’s just people falling down in the dirt. And sometimes, that’s all you really need on a Tuesday night.