Animal Crackers
1930, Comedy, 1h 37m
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The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
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Rating: G
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Genre: Comedy
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Original Language: English
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Director: Victor Heerman
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: Paramount Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures [us]
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Very funny and silly, a classic Marx Brothers movie. The only thing I don't like about it is the ending, it's kind of strange. Otherwise, a great movie.
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Comedy has progressed and regressed in several ways throughout the years movies have been filmed and viewed, but as a consumer society most of us are used to, and crave the "top-of-the-line" comedy. I am sure this movie was considered the peak of hilarity, but I couldn't find this one joke pause another unrelated joke, no plot, slap-stick movie funny. Sorry, but I guess I'm not a Marx Brothers Fan.
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Very very funny, but not for the solid 100 mins unfortunately.
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Animal Crackers is the FIRST really good movie by the Marx Brothers, made in 1930. Although it's definitely not their best, I recommend it a lot. Mayhem and slapstick comedy along with the typical genius one-liners ensue when a very valuable painting is stolen during a party honoring an African explorer Captain Spaulding, or is it? I want to make a very particular emphasis of this film. Animal Crackers, apart from being the first movie that makes a parody out of high-class society with more depth, has very coplicated scenes throughout. I noticed scenes of long duration that had no camera cuts, making the scenes being even harder to accomplish successfully. Of course if you're working with comedy geniuses then constructing such brilliant scenes couldn't be so hard, but then again Mr. Victor Heerman did a splendid job putting the effort he could in this film. 85/100
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