Not Their Best Work

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2007)

I saw it for the first time tonight and felt like I didn't get my money's worth.
Lines that were clever in the Marx Brothers' other, even earlier, movies, fell flat here and there was lots of filler between. The execution of the plot is so inane that it could easily have been made into a hand-drawn cartoon of itself with not a single laugh lost.
The Three Stooges probably based their careers on THIS movie instead of the other, much more cerebral Marx Brothers' offerings. To be fair, it was released in 1933 and there were many iron crosses in evidence. The world has changed so much since then I suppose we owe the boys a mulligan.
This is the most dancing I've even seen Groucho do and it is funny. You get the feeling that he could be very accomplished at it if that were a goal of his.
These guys can do, and have done, better.