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The Brothers' energy and madness is never in question: when the laughs come, they come loud and long. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
The Brothers' energy and madness is never in question: when the laughs come, they come loud and long.
Fun puts melody in the shade in the audible pictorial transcription of the musical comedy The Cocoanuts. Mar 25, 2006 | Full Review…
Fun puts melody in the shade in the audible pictorial transcription of the musical comedy The Cocoanuts.
Mordaunt Hall
An eminently watchable antique. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
An eminently watchable antique.
Don Druker
Squeaks by on the top-notch comedy quotient. Oct 29, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Squeaks by on the top-notch comedy quotient.
Matt Brunson
Sophisticated absurdity and sublime nonsense. [Blu-ray] Oct 18, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Sophisticated absurdity and sublime nonsense. [Blu-ray]
Peter Canavese
Chock with some classic gags and lines... Aug 14, 2006 | Full Review…
Chock with some classic gags and lines...
Dan Schneider
Watchable for some hilarious routines, but valued now mostly as a relic. Oct 12, 2005 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Watchable for some hilarious routines, but valued now mostly as a relic.
Dennis Schwartz
First Marx Brothers film is creaky, but has marvelous scenes Oct 10, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
First Marx Brothers film is creaky, but has marvelous scenes
Daniel Eagan
Creaky production is the Marx Brothers' first...and has its hilarious moments. Jun 29, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
Creaky production is the Marx Brothers' first...and has its hilarious moments.
Steve Crum
There's a true benefit of starting at the beginning. Dec 16, 2004 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
There's a true benefit of starting at the beginning.
Walter Chaw
The daft anarchy of the Marx Brothers is often akin to watching the id personified and unleashed. Nov 20, 2004 | Full Review…
The daft anarchy of the Marx Brothers is often akin to watching the id personified and unleashed.
Matt Bailey
It shows its age, but it also captures the verve of the Marx Brothers at the start of their movies careers. May 24, 2003 | Full Review…
It shows its age, but it also captures the verve of the Marx Brothers at the start of their movies careers.
Film4 Staff
The first of the Marx Bros. movies and, while stagey, most certainly a delight. Margaret Dumont, as ever, is a fortress of femininity against the leering onslaught of Groucho's questionable machinations and grandly so, while Chico and Harpo are the best worthless con men ever. One of the very reasons for film.
Super Reviewer
What I love about the Marx Brothers is that they never overshoot. There films are filled with slapstick and puns a like, but they never completely miss in their humor. This is my fourth film from them (Duck Soup, A Night in Casablanca, & A Night at the Opera). The only one I would pick this over is A Night In Casablanca, but this is still packed with laughs. I thought the scene where they were going from to room to room was way to long, and I didn't care for the music scenes. Unfortunately this started to lose me in the concluding minutes, but overall I liked it. Especially the auction scene, and the one before it.
You can tell that this is their first movie, it isn't as slick and structured as their other movies. Still, they use the routines which are staples of their later movies, and they are just as funny, but the rest of the actors are all over the place trying to take attention away from the Marx Brothers. Plus, I didn't like the ending.
Pretty slow in the beginning, but it picks up. Not my favorite Marx Bros, film, but it's still great fun.
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