ActuallyGlimmer
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Prismark10
In this 20 minutes Buster Keaton short, you actually wonder how did he get away with some of those stunts which look life threatening. At one point a side of the house falls on him but the open space for the window goes through him as Keaton just stands on the spot.Newlywed Buster and his bride are given 'portable house' as a wedding present which they build over the course of a week. Love rival Handy Hank who lost out to the bride sabotages the directions which results in the house being built wonky.The film is full of physical comedy and sight gags. There are little touches as the newly married Buster picks up a pair of old shoes that are thrown at him and takes them with him. When his wife is having a bath and she goes to pick up the soap, the cameraman sticks his hand out to preserve her modesty.This film established Keaton as the master of the comedy shorts.
Martin Teller
ONE WEEKBuster Keaton and his new bride labor to build a house from a kit. There's not much of a narrative arc to speak of, but the premise allows for some pretty funny physical gags. And inventive ones, too... such as when the entire cockeyed structure is rotating around on a giant lazy susan. Keaton is endearing and charming as ever, and although we don't get to see Sybil Seely do that much, she certainly is a cutie-pie. The ending makes a terrific capper to this fun little short with plenty of laughs.Rating: 8/10
John (opsbooks)
Having read through every other comment, there's nothing much else to add as regards the plot. I came across this short on the 'college' special edition DVD which also contains 'The Blacksmith'. I'd seen both shorts previously on a cheap release. The superior quality of this release encouraged me to give a higher rating which isn't always the case.From start to finish, 'One Week' is a scream! The viewer never quite knows what will happen next, and generally is struck with the thought that "Well, I think I know what's going to happen, but surely it won't" - and it of course DOES happen !!! So many good gags, so many touching scenes that's it's difficult to pick one. If push comes to shove, I'll vote for the final one. 'One Week' always leaves me with the feeling that once is NOT enough; I just have to watch it again ...
Alex Schulz
Keaton was now out on his own, no longer working with Fatty Arbuckel. 'One Week'was his first independent film. Joseph Schneck produced the film, having done work on the Fatty and Keaton shorts. The team of Buster Keaton and Eddi Cline directed and did script work as would follow in most of Keaton's other shorts. 'One Week' is definitive of Buster Keaton's style. It is purely gag over narrative. Keaton's performance is more important than the story, and that was pretty much how all his later movies worked. Keaton also enjoyed capturing the world around him as it happened. His stunts in this movie did not rely on editing. The house really did turn, the train sequence was real. This was a good beginning to what followed.
