Mad Mad Cinerama World: Not Your Usual G-Rated Movie (5)
UNITED STATES—When “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” was re-released in 1970, it got slapped with a G-rating. Heck, I was seven years old and already had a sense that a G-rating was bad yawning Disney juju, fun for the whole family. Like Jerry Seinfeld has said, “Fun for the whole family seldom is.” But MMMMW this is not your mother’s G-movie.
Mad World was like wow, it’s funny and brings a tear to one’s eye and it has one really risqué sequences, and there is death and destruction galore. Smiler Grogan crashing off a desert cliff; Jonathan Winters with his bare-hands destroying a brand-new gas station.