Abbott and Costello were a a comedy duo whose comedy reputation outside of the USA declined rather rapidly over the years. Frankly a lot of their movies were not good enough and more importantly funny enough. I always reckoned the Marx Brothers would had joined them in the hall of shame for the unfunny but for Groucho.
Bud and Lou are hapless maintenance men messing around in a rocket ship, pressing random buttons as you do and blast off. As the rocket is in New York we see them go through Lincoln Tunnel and go pass the Statue of Liberty before it lands in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras.
Bud and Lou think they really are in Mars because of the weird costumes. Two escaped criminals get on to the rocket and this time the ship again blasts off and they all end up in Venus, a planet run by beautiful women. I think the science here was a bit off, even in them days it would had been known the planet was full of carbon dioxide and a dense atmosphere.
The production values in the film are quiet good, the film is not as bad as feared then again it is not really that funny with some of the jokes just being a riff on their who's on third shtick.
I doubt the film will gain any new Abbot and Costello fans and is unlikely to restore the duo's reputation as funny-men.
Bud and Lou are hapless maintenance men messing around in a rocket ship, pressing random buttons as you do and blast off. As the rocket is in New York we see them go through Lincoln Tunnel and go pass the Statue of Liberty before it lands in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras.
Bud and Lou think they really are in Mars because of the weird costumes. Two escaped criminals get on to the rocket and this time the ship again blasts off and they all end up in Venus, a planet run by beautiful women. I think the science here was a bit off, even in them days it would had been known the planet was full of carbon dioxide and a dense atmosphere.
The production values in the film are quiet good, the film is not as bad as feared then again it is not really that funny with some of the jokes just being a riff on their who's on third shtick.
I doubt the film will gain any new Abbot and Costello fans and is unlikely to restore the duo's reputation as funny-men.