{"id":10918,"date":"2007-06-27T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10918"},"modified":"2007-06-27T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:38:53","slug":"mime-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/mime-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Mime (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mime\"<\/a>I guess you could say that this is based on a true story, but then it\u2019s so absurd I truly had a hard time believing. So, I\u2019ll take Balinski\u2019s word for it, in the end. Based on a true story, a young man who poses as a mime goes walking in the park one night, and proceeds to mime killing a passerby. He\u2019s then chased, beaten and put on trial for murder. I can imagine the original proceedings (if there were any) didn\u2019t really go this way, but \u201cMime\u201d seems as more a lampooning of the proceedings with a clown as one of the jurors, and our lawyers insisting that the victim not speak since he\u2019s technically dead.<\/p>\n

During many instances, \u201cMime\u201d made me laugh, and that\u2019s due to Joe Grace\u2019s comedy timing as Binky the mime. He does nothing but make gestures, and commit to hilarious physical comedy throughout the trial, and he had me constantly giggling without any hesitation. Unfortunately, \u201cMime\u201d is hardly a complete win for Bilinski. At times, \u201cMime\u201d comes off very forced, and much of the comedy can smack of desperation.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t really force a laughter from the judge trying to mediate the proceedings, nor could I really understand the sight gags of the mannequin or the tranny juror.<\/p>\n

And much of the trial jokes just fall flat; the \u201cYou Can\u2019t Handle the Truth\u201d line I saw coming miles away. \u201cMime\u201d is really not as funny as it has the potential to be, and it can often times replace humor for goofiness, and that\u2019s not always a formula for success. That said, \u201cMime\u201d knows the premise is utterly silly, and it takes advantage of that on many such occasions, and the delivery of it works. Mime\u201d will just have to settle for being good and good only. It\u2019s not a great film, with forced comedy, and gags that are really too obvious, but it drew many chuckles from me, and for that, it gets an A for effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess you could say that this is based on a true story, but then it\u2019s so absurd I truly had a hard time believing. So, I\u2019ll take Balinski\u2019s word for it, in the end. Based on a true story, a young man who poses as a mime goes walking in the park one night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,237,240,335,501,617,696,703,938],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-courtroom","tag-crime","tag-experimental","tag-indie-film","tag-m","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}