Sex Life of a Polyp, The (1928)
** (out of 4)
This Fox short shows Robert Benchley doing what he would do countless times and that's play a lecturer who finds himself giving a talk about a subject that keeps messing him up. In the film he plays a doctor who is at a women's club talking about the sex life of a polyp. Along the way he grows more and more nervous and soon begins to mess up and this is especially true when he goes to the photos and can't remember which is the boy and which is the girl. I've said it several times but these type of Benchley shorts never work for me so if you're a fan of them then I'm sure you'll want to check this out as it features that same type of humor. I'm really not sure what it is but Benchley has always been hit and miss with me and this is yet another miss. I've yet to find any of the film in this ones structure to be very entertaining because I just don't find someone messing up to be funny. There are certainly ways to make it funny but these shorts always play it straight, never go over-the-top and to me this just equals boring and nothing else.