5/10
some funny stuff
1 July 2007
Warning: Spoilers
There is some wonderful, goofy stuff here, but I read a few reviews where people claimed this was their favorite Marx movie. So I was expecting more. My vote goes to Animal Crackers, Duck Soup or A Night at the Opera. The latter contains Harpo's funniest stuff. Destroying an opera and it's sets.

A memorable extended sequence here involves Groucho on a romantic canoe ride. He croons a tune (nice), tosses his guitar in the drink (a hoot), and mocks his love interest who has adopted a grating baby-doll voice; "If widdle bay-bee girl doesn't stop tawking like that, daddy will kick her teeth down her thwote." (shocking and hysterical) Harpo's trade-hat which features the services he can be hired for changes to "Kidnapper" at one point. Too funny.

This one has the positively flimsiest plot of all the Marx bros movies. But it also has Chico's nicest piano solo. The football game at the end is pretty silly and very corny.
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