A great film comedy

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2000)

This is my favourite Marx Brothers film, and that is saying a lot! It is the only major MB movie without a piano bit from Chico and a harp solo from Harpo.Although most people don`t like these bits, I do. But there is no doubt that the movie is a lot tighter without them.
Apart from carrying a serious anti-war message, it has the greatest comedy routine in the history of the cinema. Often copied but never, never bettered, the mirror sequence with bedgown bedecked Harpo pretending to be Groucho`s reflection, is so beautifully performed that it reduces me to water every time I see it.
The climactic battle scene is truly inspired. Anarchic and surrealistic, it is pure Monty Python 30 years before Monty Python!