A Night at the Opera Reviews
Top CriticNever was a director more aptly named than Sam Wood: his movies are redwood forests of unrelieved monotony.
The Nation
It is exciting and perfect; a sign that they have at last learned how to use every resource which Hollywood can offer them; and the simplest reason I can find for calling them funny beyond the power of words to spoil the fun.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
... all the classic hallmarks of the Marx Brothers - Groucho's one-liners, musical numbers, rapid fire word play and Margaret Dumont - are present in the film
Full Review | Original Score: A
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Comic anarchy at its most sublime.
| Original Score: 5/5
Common Sense Media
Marx Brothers masterpiece is still hilarious.
Full Review
| Original Score: 5/5
San Francisco Examiner
A very funny movie slowed down by MGM's expensive production values and idiotic songs.
| Original Score: 4/5
The backstage finish, with Harpo doing a Tarzan on the fly ropes, contains more action than the Marxes usually go in for, but it relieves the strictly verbal comedy and provides a sock exit.
Filmcritic.com
One of the Marx brothers' greatest films.
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/5
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
A classic Marx Bros. comedy, funny from start to finish. The stateroom scene alone is priceless. The brothers at the top of their game.
| Original Score: 5/5
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Fresh off the failure of "Duck Soup," this was the Marx Brothers' comeback movie. The effort shows.
Full Review
| Original Score: A
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A winning film.
Full Review
| Original Score: B
Movie Metropolis
...one of the highlights of Hollywood film comedy.
Full Review
| Original Score: 9/10
Cinema em Cena
Embora empalideça diante de Diabo a Quatro, melhor filme dos irmãos, traz algumas das cenas mais memoráveis da trupe, dos jogos de palavras às gags físicas.
| Original Score: 4/5
DVDJournal.com
[The Marx Brothers] still let the air out of stuffed shirts and barbecue a few sacred cows, but something got lost in all that MGMness when the screen's ultimate anti-authoritarian team starting working the Andy Hardy side of the street.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Classic, classy Marxist mayhem
| Original Score: 5/5
Old School Reviews
contains more memorable moments than usual with its tighter script and more consistent laugh lines
Full Review
| Original Score: A
