The poor bastard from the funny silent short “Monday Morning” re-appears yet again, this time for a date with a woman he helps one day at the beach. Fleet Street Films gives fans of the first film a very funny sequel that lives up to the first film with more misadventures from the same man who found his bad luck never ending on the way to work one Monday Morning. The film is again created with the same speedy black and white which perfectly captures the spirit of the old silent films, but this time with more gags that will inspire a chuckle from its audience.

Nate Edwards reprises his role and is in pretty rare form stopping a mugger and then asking the victim out for a date, which, as you would guess goes incredibly wrong. These sets of catastrophes involve Edwards’ character dropping salad on his date, smacking his date in pursuit of a fly, and attempting to stay awake during a film, but one of the funniest scenes involves an innocent spray bottle which grabbed the most laughter. Much like the little tramp, Spadaccini’s character is indeed a tragic but funny one.

I just really didn’t understand why we had the sub-plot involving the mugger who ends up finding someone, kidnaps them, and basically pairs with them, while scenes of a photographer and reporter are featured as witnessing the events taking place that never really have any relevance to the events later on in the story. I was interested to see where the reporter and photographer would eventually factor into the events that take place here, but they never really do and it felt like padding in the end for what could have made for more gags.

In spite of padding and scenes that seem added for no real relevance, "The First Date" is a funny sequel to a funny film, and continues the misadventures of one of the unluckiest SOB's I've seen on film in a while.

• For more information on "The First Date" release, festival runs, and press, go to:
  http://www.fleetstreetfilms.com
• Director Spadaccini cameos as a man sitting on a bench next to the main character.

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