This time Marx Brothers Go West , and causing their usual insanity , this a decent yarn, thanks to some funny sketches and its bustling finale . This is a busy comedy lark in which the Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man , attempting to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves , while running afoul of cutthroats . It begins well enough , with Harpo and Chico gleefully outwitting Groucho's attempts to fleece them them of ten dollars . In Go West (1940) the brothers Marx help in the making and un-making of the Old West . The Looniest, Tuniest Musical Gag-And-Gal Show Since "A Night At The Opera" !. Jump into your boots and saddles !. It's round-up time in the wild and wooly west !. Come along for the laughs ! -for a rodeo of rib-tickling roars...as the Marxes make the Wild West !. Rip-Roaring With Laughs, Girls, Songs!. The Show of Shows...to keep the world Singing and Laughing!. Keep the world laughing!.
This is a fast , furious , and riotous visual amusement that children and adults will find fun , while Marx purists will go for the scene at the start where 'greenhorns' Chico and Harpo take 'sharpster' Groucho to the cleaners with the help of a dollar bill on a piece of string . Relentlessly comical and noisy comedy with musical interludes that still works at times , but definitely sub-standard Marxism movie . Relatively late and therefore far from great , in which Groucho , Chico and Harpo find themselves victims both to a West they can barely hoodwink or subvert and to a script which is only spasmodically amusing . That said , the final frantic train chase climax -while falling dismally short of ¨Buster Keaton's The General¨- has its admittedly slapsticky moments . It suffers from some heavy musical numbers , but it gives the zany threesome some funny and really comic elaboration . This is an acceptable and passable Marx flick, but weaker and inferior than other entries . An entertaining Marx outing with its failures but always good for a few yucks .
Other important films starred by Marx Brothers -many of them Broadway farce plays transfered by scenarists into vehicle for the Brothers- are the following ones : ¨Animal crackers¨, ¨Duck soap¨ that was a flop when first released but today considered a masterpiece , ¨Horse Feathers¨, ¨At the circus¨, ¨A night at the Opera¨,¨Day at the races¨ , ¨Room service¨ , ¨Love Happy¨ and ¨Night in Casablanca¨, though in 1946 the Marx formula was weak and wearing thin . Any film with Groucho , Chico , Harpo and Margaret Dumont is well worth seeing. Rating : 6.5/10.
This is a fast , furious , and riotous visual amusement that children and adults will find fun , while Marx purists will go for the scene at the start where 'greenhorns' Chico and Harpo take 'sharpster' Groucho to the cleaners with the help of a dollar bill on a piece of string . Relentlessly comical and noisy comedy with musical interludes that still works at times , but definitely sub-standard Marxism movie . Relatively late and therefore far from great , in which Groucho , Chico and Harpo find themselves victims both to a West they can barely hoodwink or subvert and to a script which is only spasmodically amusing . That said , the final frantic train chase climax -while falling dismally short of ¨Buster Keaton's The General¨- has its admittedly slapsticky moments . It suffers from some heavy musical numbers , but it gives the zany threesome some funny and really comic elaboration . This is an acceptable and passable Marx flick, but weaker and inferior than other entries . An entertaining Marx outing with its failures but always good for a few yucks .
Other important films starred by Marx Brothers -many of them Broadway farce plays transfered by scenarists into vehicle for the Brothers- are the following ones : ¨Animal crackers¨, ¨Duck soap¨ that was a flop when first released but today considered a masterpiece , ¨Horse Feathers¨, ¨At the circus¨, ¨A night at the Opera¨,¨Day at the races¨ , ¨Room service¨ , ¨Love Happy¨ and ¨Night in Casablanca¨, though in 1946 the Marx formula was weak and wearing thin . Any film with Groucho , Chico , Harpo and Margaret Dumont is well worth seeing. Rating : 6.5/10.