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The same, of course, goes for Love Happy, which isn't a Marx Brothers movie either, but rather a sentimental Harpo vehicle, with his brothers in support. Whether it's a successful or unsuccessful one is of course a matter for the individual viewer, but it's one that can only fairly be judged on its own terms. It's not a typical Marx Brothers film: it's a film in which the Marxes play characters already written, in material that was not created expressly for them? Room Service is a possibly unique example of this phenomenon: a film that gets it right in the nuts every time it steps into the ring, and not for anything that it is, but purely on account of what it isn't, and never claims to be, or even tries to be.īut is there really anyone who does not know the following going in: Would anyone actually want The Big Noise to not exist at all? We can have a lively chat about whether it's bad or not, but is it really that bad? Surely one less Laurel & Hardy movie in the world would be a bad thing, all totalled? but why do they make folks so angry that they can't wait to open the insults box and go to work on them? I can understand people not particularly enjoying them or wanting to watch them all that often, maybe even finding them a little sad to watch. Laurel and Hardy in Utopia, or Groucho in A Girl In Every Port or the Crazy Gang in Life's a Circus.
Animal Crackers fails to deliver that and the vignettes thus fall flat.I've never been the kind of film fan that resents the existence of lesser movies featuring my favourite stars. But, their better works such as Duck Soup succeeded based on its biting satire and A Night at the Opera actually found a plot. In addition, The Marx Brothers were never known for their cohesive story.
But, the film medium has moved along way since then and Animal Crackers did not make the jump. That is a problem with a lot of early film work in the 1900s.
But, with that idea, the entire film feels staged like a theater show. They would take their act on the road and build up enough material to fill a feature length movie. The early Marx Brothers films were adaptations of their stage work. Yet, it is a very weak film in their filmography. Animal Crackers is considered one of the greatest comedies of all time. They are without a doubt classic comedians but a lot of their early film work struggle to live up to their brilliance. And then there is Chico whose persona as a immigrant who would do anything to make a quick buck becomes endearing to many of the viewers who come from similar situations. Harpo has a Chaoplinesque quality combined with a childhood innocence that makes his mischievous smile all the more endearing. Groucho, the de facto leader of the group, was known for his smart wit and dry one liners. Animal Crackers The Marx Brothers are without doubt comedic geniuses with each brother having their own specific strength to form a cohesive comedy tandem.