Review of Margie

Margie (1940)
1/10
Grab the aspirin! Definitely extra strength!
2 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Sometimes wacky goes too far, and this musical first takes it to a point of insanity from which there is no recovery. it is a musical that never gives you a chance to breathe, because nobody and it ever shut up, huh play over each other in extremely loud tones. that's fine for a two-wheel short, but this truck is it out to an hour and that is far too much and excessively annoying. Newlyweds Tom Brown and Nan Grey are bolted fault in the music business, shuffle songwriters who work in cheaper areas starting off as a collection agent for unpaid pianos.

The first three minutes are actually funny as the people in debt stop him from collecting either cash or the piano and very funny ways just like they would do later on to the sales people in the two "Fuller Brush" movies. But once Mischa Auer comes in as a South American banana baron, do you have nauseousness triples, and it started once the opening sequence had concluded. The film even dares to rip off "The Music Box" where Edgar Kennedy and Allen Jenkins taking the place of Laurel and Hardy, and the results are extremely obnoxious.

The musical sequences with the title song repeated over and over with ridiculous lyrics just get reputation and extremely annoying. Not only is the limited plot just ridiculous but any effort to create laughs just provides excessive groans. if I ever have to hear that song about bananas ever again, I'll be bananas. I'll sit and re-watch "Hellzapoppin'" in a 24-hour marathon before I'll sit through this again.
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