“We want to help people have fun,” intones one of the two depressed and downtrodden novelty salesmen who drift through the bleak, stylized Scandinavian universe of Roy Andersson’s indescribably strange film “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.” But the joke, if that’s the right term, lies in the fact that it’s hard to imagine anything less fun than these two guys, who deliberately recall Vladimir and Estragon from Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” and for that matter Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. They have extra-long vampire fangs. They have something called the “laugh bag,” a classic, they tell prospective customers, that is certain to bring a smile to parties, whether at home or in the office. They have great faith in a new product, a hideous mask known as “Uncle One-Tooth” – who actually does deliver one of the movie’s biggest laughs.
Source: salon.com