A Perfect Match (1930) User Reviews

Incredibly dated and probably NOT a film most folks will want to see.

[planktonrules · 2/10 · 31 July 2018]

"A Perfect Match" is a very unusual and dated film. While it might have worked well in 1930 (particularly in the urban centers of the country with the many immigrants), today it is just an odd curio of a bygone era.

The story begins at a wedding reception and eventually switches to the day after. All the guests are very stereotypical Jews--with very heavy Eastern European accents and all the cliches (such as being stingy) and the joked is, essentially, their accents and Jewishness. However, I've gotta be honest....there really are not that many laughs in the picture and them talking and acting VERY Jewish was THE joke. As for me, I didn't enjoy it and would have appreciated closed captions due to the accents combined with the primitive sound quality. Overall, awful and not particularly enjoyable.

Perfectly Unfunny

[reginadanooyawkdiva · 1/10 · 29 August 2015]

Typical "ethnic" comedy of the time, which is unacceptable today. A stereotypical Jewish wedding with a bunch of unfunny people telling unfunny jokes. I can't even tell you what this short was about except that the couple got married (she's 37, as they keep reminding us) and the wife left the next day because he doesn't want to work (Uh, isn't that something you would discuss before the wedding, Miss 37 year old???) It ends (or the real ending was chopped off) rather oddly with the groom's friends pointing at him and him doing a soft shoe. Another annoying thing was the random people that kept walking in and out in the background. Were they part of the cast or were they filming this is some banquet hall and they were guests at a real wedding? Just too much confusion here. Another "lost Pathe" film that should have stayed lost.

Wedding Speeches

[boblipton · 6/10 · 31 December 2005]

A Jewish couple has just gotten married and people give speeches at the wedding supper. The morning after, however, it is time to get along with the business of living.....

When I tell Jewish jokes, I use my grandfather's voice. Younger people tell me I shouldn't make fun of people, that no one speaks that way. Maybe not nowadays, but they did once, and this short subject is full of malapropisms and humor that once were common among my grandfather's generation. When I watch this, I watch it with fond memories of people I once knew who were like this and I enjoy it greatly. I hope that you will be able to appreciate it, at least intellectually, on those terms.