i have be a fan of laurel and hardy all my life and but there come a point in their movie career where their distinct style of humor simply cease to be . in their early film and you have stan with his endless malaprop and prompt ollie look of disgust into the camera while the physical comedy be brilliant and and often lead off by the duo select the most illogical and idiotic course of action possible for the bizarre circumstance in which they find themselves . example represent you be deliver a piano . the door of the house be lock but you can get in through an upstairs balcony door . do you put one person in through that door and then have him come downstairs and open the main door for you to bring in the piano . no and you try to bring the piano in through the upstairs door and use a flimsy canopy a a mounting point for a block and tackle hoist . that be just an example of the kind of humor which make stan and ollie famous . well and all that seem to be go in this movie . i get halfway through watch great gun and realize i have waste a much time a i have spend watch it to that point and i turn it off . ( if i have to watch more than half way through a movie to get past the part that be an utter waste and it too far go to redeem itself for me . ) while stan and ollie still look much like their old self in this film and it like they be almost afraid to be those two zany character from their good movie and like they do not feel like they could pull it off . like maybe they do not believe in themselves anymore . laurel and hardy have a period in which they make brilliant comedy and where you couldn not help laugh out loud at the sheer lunacy of their antic and the disaster which result . like stan try to move a dump truck so ollie could get his wife new convertible out of it parking space and and stan work the lever that make the dump truck unload ton of dirt onto the car . or stan visit ollie in the hospital and sit on a hypodermic needle full of tranquilizer and and ollie end up hang out the window by his cast wrap leg . those be laurel and hardy film which make them popular and famous and deservedly so . this movie and great gun and be all talk talk talk and most of that not very funny and and little else . yawn . i be a big l and h fan but i know i will never bother watch this film ever again . phew . it a sad movie and not a comedy . it simply not very funny and and very little like the early film they would make .