Best movie ever!

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Even though this wasn't my favorite of Buster Keaton films, it's still a really great one. Not only was the movie hilarious with the constant problems that was happening on the ship but I must give a huge pound of applause to the photographers and director Buster Keaton. The shots definitely helped the humor in the movie, especially in the scene where the two characters were running up and down the ship trying to find who else was on the ship but kept missing each other. The shots for that scene were fantastic because you could see each time how they just missed each other. Once again though Buster Keaton's over exaggerating movement and acting helped keep the film constantly comedy packed. As well as the chemistry with his costar Kathryn McGuire, the two of them keep the movie entertaining.

This was the second silent film that I have ever watched and I found it to be a great movie and well thought out. This movie was very funny and had quite a few scenes that had me laughing so much not only because how funny it was but because it was just so ridiculous that you couldn't help to laugh. There were two scenes that stuck out to me th most. The first was when Buster Keaton and the girl on the boat were trying to find each other and were running around in circles on the boat for almost five minutes. The second part the was laugh out loud funny was when Buster Keaton was in the kitchen trying to cook eggs and open cans but was having the hardest time. This movie was a fantastic movie and i would recommend anyone who has to watch a silent film or just wants to to see this one

While his set-pieces were certainly on a lower scale than Harold Lloyd, and his films were less politically and socially aware than Charles Chaplin, the great Buster Keaton was certainly a resourceful man, and wholly dedicated to the art of prop comedy. In 1924, he would buy his biggest prop in the USAT Buford, a liner that served in World War I and was destined for the scrap heap until Keaton stepped in. Keaton and co- director Donald Crisp sat down to write a new comedy based around their new toy, a giant ship that was ripe with endless comedic possibilities, and one which Keaton had free reign. And out of this came The Navigator, one of Buster Keaton's most loved comedies.Bored rich-kid Rollo Treadway (Keaton) decides one day to get married, and travels across the street to propose to neighbour Betsy (Kathryn McGuire). Confident that she will say yes, he asks his servant to book honeymoon tickets for Honolulu that very night, but naturally, she turns him down. Rollo decides to go anyway, and a mistake leads to him getting on the wrong ship, the SS Navigator, which has just be sold to an enemy by Betsy's father in an unknown war. Her father is seized while checking the ship by some local gangsters, and Betsy, hearing her father's shouts, wanders onto the ship before it is cut loose. The ship drifts out into the Pacific Ocean, with Rollo and Betsy all alone to face the perils of savage tribes, dodgy equipment, and having to make breakfast all by themselves.While I do prefer the films of Chaplin, Keaton's reputation as the greatest physical comedian of all time is well justified, with his doe- eyed, helpless expression providing some great subtle comedy between the prat-falls (his nickname was the Great Stone Face). One of the opening scenes aboard the ship has the two characters sensing each other's presence and running manically around the ship, missing each other by inches. It's a remarkably well-timed moment, and McGuire (who co-starred in other Keaton films) proves game and much more than the archetypal love interest. Although I much preferred the likes of Sherlock, Jr. (1924), The General (1926) and Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928), there are some inspired moments here involving Rollo's helpless attempts to open a can of food, a rickety deck-chair, and an underwater sword-fight with a swordfish. If the ending is tinged with a bit of racism (they're black and on an island, of course they're cannibals!), it seems to be more of a case of innocent ignorance, and The Navigator is a 60-minute hoot, though some plot-strands are left somewhat neglected and open-ended.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

Despite this film being branded as one of the classics I didn't find it very entertaining. The acting was nothing to write home about and the scenes were far too dragged out for my enjoyment(i.e. The scene on the boat where they haven't seen each other yet and are frantically running around in circles).I found the sense of humor that was most prevalent in this film to be juvenile at best. I'm sure that if I was between the ages of 8 and 10 I would have found it quite entertaining but at my current age I found the jokes to be very typical and very rehashed.The plot wasn't very thought out and I didn't feel that it had any real depth. It was simply a scenario put in place to set up the scene for a series of bad slapstick jokes.Perhaps I judged too harshly but I didn't find this film to be of any real artistic value.