In an age when movie dialogue is dumbed and slowed down to suit slow-wits in the audience, the dialogue here has the velocity and snap of screwball comedy.

在现在这个年代，电影对话一般被刻意地愚蠢化和放慢节奏，以便适应低智的观众，而这部电影里面的对话则有着神经喜剧里面的速度和撞击。

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While Chinese film companies moved the schedules of their new releases to avoid a head-on collision with the Hollywood juggernaut, Enlight Pictures decided to tackle the beast with a screwball comedy.

当中国电影公司都纷纷将其新电影档期排开，避免与好莱坞超级大片产生正面碰撞，光线影业却决定用一部神经喜剧正面迎击。

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Sparks fly as the "straight" one reveals his true feelings for the other in this screwball comedy.

在这个怪人的喜剧里，当“正常”的一个对另一个表露出他的真心感受时，火花碰撞出来了。

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That's really the classic American screwball romantic comedy formula I was trying to find the middle path where people who understand classic romantic comedy would really respond to it, but it would appear fresh and new enough to appeal to a younger audience."

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Ilsa had thought the film was a return to the screwball romantic comedies of the nineteen-thirties, but Mrs.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

Which brings us, unavoidably, to "Leatherheads, " the disappointingly leaden, if eager-to-please attempt by George Clooney, the movie's star and director, to evoke the screwball comedies of Hawks, Cukor and Sturges.

WSJ: Film Review

The screwball comedy represents a pinnacle of American filmmaking.

CNN: Review: 'Leatherheads' drops the ball