it's a mad mad mad mad world

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is an invaluable historical document of classic American comedians and stage performers. It is little else, least of all funny. The lines aren't funny, the characters aren't interesting and the slapstick gags are putrid. Jimmy Durante steals the picture and he dies in the first five minutes! By all means it deserves the full restoration that it sorely needs, but let's not pretend for a minute that anything but the premise is inspired.

I will give a dollar to anyone who can explain to me why I still kinda liked it.