Review of Coney Island

This isn't all that funny a film and the jokes seem pretty ordinary. Fatty and his hideous wife are at the beach and he soon disappears to try and have some fun chasing women (a very familiar Arbuckle plot). Al St. John wants the same girl to himself and Buster Keaton just floats in and out of various scenes like they really weren't sure what to do with him. However, despite all this, I loved watching this film because it game such a wonderful glimpse of Luna Park at Coney of a by-gone era. Some of the rides look so wonderful and the scene where Fatty and the girl are thrown from the boat are really good. It's actually a very important film as a historical record of the place. However, this aspect is perhaps the only reason to rush out and see this movie. Without the Coney clips, I would only give this film a 4 or maybe even a 5.