A Tramp and Uncle Fester share a special bond in this timeless classic from Charlie Chaplin. Burned photograph. Crying babies scare gangstas. Pimpin' cigarette box. The way Charlie Chaplin tips his hat. Umbrella beatdown. The letter. Bootleg baby bottle. Street hustling like a boss. Rocks break windows. Charlie's giggle. The little kid runs faster than a jaguar. Smooth lobby boy. Charlie Chaplin's mustache is crooked. Booger picker. I'm still cracking the fuck up because the little kid grew up to be Uncle Fester from the Addams Family. Bully beatdown. The even bigger badder bully's muscles. Brick knockout. Ass kick. Quack doctor. The way Charlie Chaplin pushes a motherfucker. The kid is crying and I want to cry. Such passion. Such…

Charlie Chaplin's first feature-length theatrical is one of the greatest achievements of silent era of filmmaking that paints one of the most heartfelt portrait of father-son relationship on the silver screen, presents the gifted talent at the prime of his creativity, and despite being nearly a century old classic, can still put most comedies of today to shame.

A comedy with a smile & perhaps a tear, The Kid tells the story of a tramp who after coming across an abandoned baby takes him under his care after which the film jumps five years in the span of which the grown child now works as his father's sidekick, helping his glazing business by breaking windows around the town. But an unfortunate…

Insert Here: Standard opening about how I don't deal well with silent films and how impressive it is that my fascination with Chaplin's comedies continues. These films are a great access point for audiences looking to broaden their horizons beyond sound film.

The Kid is easily the most melodramatic of Charlie Chaplin's work. This isn't particularly strange since despite their roots in slapstick comedy, Chaplin's films have always had a deeper side grounded in sympathetic emotionalism. But The Kid has a sad side which is darker than most.

It opens with a young mother abandoning her newborn baby played over a melancholic string arrangement that will make your heart wrench before you even know what's happening. The Tramp takes the…

"A comedy with a smile--and perhaps a tear"

Charlie Chaplin's first self-produced feature film, The Kid, is a tender and sweet tale that once again manages to balance those emotional moments with a great amount of slapstick comedy. The master of pantomime surprised me here by taking a step out of the spotlight and letting it shine on the young newcomer, Jackie Coogan, who steals every scene he is in. Coogan is extremely cute and he held his own next to Chaplin in the comedic department as well. As the title suggests, the main character in this film is the kid who has given the character of the tramp something to live and fight for. The scene that stands out…

Criterion Collection Spine #799

If your looking for something to smile about, you can always turn to Chaplin!

The Kid is one of writer and director Charlie Chaplin's earlier feature films, and is a delightful story about his famous character the tramp finding and raising an orphan.

There are plenty of memorable moments throughout like when the young boy gets in a fight and Chaplin wants him to loose so he does not get beat up. Or simpler moments like the two sharing a large meal of pancakes together. The kid played by Jackie Coogan really lights up the screen with his range of emotions that come across so well. It's fascinating to see special effects they pulled off during…

Much more a drama than a comedy, The Kid is fairly rudimentary in its story and ambitions. The whole film is based around the relationship between Chaplin and the titular kid, played by Jackie Coogan. They’re pretty good together, but nothing much of more happens to endear you to either character or their relationship. Unlike many of the Tramp’s shorts before now, there are few depictions of the struggle of poverty and the clever ways he works around it. A couple scenes early on show the couple making do with their shambled living situation and trying to con some people out of money by shamshing windows and then offering to repair them. It’s good for a light chuckle, but nothing…

Needed something quick and sweet and this was precisely it. Actually, it was far more than that, this is quite a masterpiece! Third Chaplin and probably my favorite, although The Gold Rush comes close. 53-minute criterion version—I can't quite imagine an extra 15 minutes benefiting this succinct and tight film, but that will remain unknown until I see that version one day(assuming that I ever will, since Chaplin preferred the edited versions of his films anyways). I liked the more "honest" portrayal of poverty than you see in many other films, a lot of stealing, breaking, and violence involved, even if a lot of it plays as comedy. The boxing/fight scene with the kids was definitely my favorite, cracked me…

The Kid is 100% the best Charlie Chaplin film (including the shorts) it’s just perfect it breaks your heart it makes you laugh and smile it’s so beautiful it’s full of hate and love.

The film as all Chaplin films bring forward a range of issues and common in all his films poverty since he grew up poor in no other Chaplin film has it brought the struggles of a poor person better than the kid and it does this through the relationship between the tramp and the kid they love each other dearly and would do anything for eAch other people are constantly trying to break them apart yet they always get back together as if they are one…