Genius! Sheer genius. Really hilarious with all the slapstick--it's really an artform to make that all work and appear so random. Imagine the joy the 1928 moviegoers got from watching this. Hulu offered the movie Chaplin with Robt. Downey, Jr. in the biographical role which was also brilliant, capturing the man's genius, ingenuity, creativity, and his success with the Little Tramp. This one ended with his signature shuffle, cane-twirling walk. I just loved it!

Why the fork hasn't the Criterion Collection honored Buster Keaton? Why isn't he getting the Criterion treatment? I love some of Chaplin movie (CITY LIGHT, THE KID, THE GOLD RUSH) and he is indeed a genius but give me Keaton any day . The circus is the most autobiographical Chaplin movie. Like the Tramp he didn't know what made him funny (Like in this movie people tells him he's funny). He was plagued with personal problems. A Charlie Sheen of his day and also he was dealing with his pedophilia (LET'S FACE IT CHAPLIN WAS A PEDOPHILE)... But he could make people laugh and for that he was a perfectionist... Sometimes he would shoot the same scene 20 times... In his movies he could make himself way better than he was in his life. He always comes out good at the end and it worked perfectly in City Lights...
Is it me or every single Chaplin deal with hunger... Of course the Tramp is always poor and homeless but he connects with people through being poor or homeless...In this movie the girl connects with the Tramp because they're both hungry... Still This is a great movie with a great score composed by Chaplin himself and a great emotional ending like every Chaplin movie... P.S SEE A KEATON MOVIE

hope they don't become a trend--this one is cemented by the skills of charlie chaplin--silent movies are okay but so much more can be done today with film technology...and its advances

More fun than a barrel of monkeys! Essentially, this movie is a bunch of comedy bits strung together; with a love-triangle as the string. Lacking the depth of most other Chaplain full-length features, but certainly not lacking the fun.