Close To Perfect

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2007)

Interesting how so many critics over the years have thought this film has an anti-war message & that is why it failed at the box office in 1933. The film is not really anti-war, it is more anti-everything. Nothing stands in the way of great comedy in this film. It is more anti stuffed shirt than anything.
This film is the nearly perfect blend of physical comedy & verbal comedy. It crackles with both, & highlights everything the Brothers felt strongly against. Groucho is the perfect Rufus T Firefly, President of the country of Freedonia. Harpo is Paul Revere at one point & Chico is a spy.
There is only one Marx Brother movie that could be a bit better- Horsefeathers. This one has the classic mirror routine.