A Little Too Much of the "Musical"

Rating: 2/10 (6 October 2018)

Not Groucho at his best. Plenty of snappy lines and ripostes but not all up to par.
A tad too much singing and musical input. What tends to be overlooked in the Marx Bros movies are the brilliant performances of some leading ladies. In Duck Soup. Margaret Dumont (as Mrs Teasdale) is a star. All at once confused, divided, strident and coquettish. It seems a little ridiculous to say the plot of this movie is rather silly - as that is what the Marxs' do. But this one is daft. It doesn't work well. The Opera and The Races we can understand. A contretemps between two fictitious countries is stretching it somewhat.