The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
The Brothers get to perform some of their most irresistible routines.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
The loudest and funniest screen comedy of the Winter season.
– Andre Sennwald,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
rotten:
Never was a director more aptly named than Sam Wood: his movies are redwood forests of unrelieved monotony.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
26 Jun 2007
fresh:
The backstage finish, with Harpo doing a Tarzan on the fly ropes, contains more action than the Marxes usually go in for, but it relieves the strictly verbal comedy and provides a sock exit.