Groucho Marx

Thoroughly entertaining...light-footed...repository for another handful of elaborate and indelible comedy scenarios.

This oft-dismissed exception in the Marx Brothers canon includes no musical numbers and only a few bits specifically tailored to the brothers...underrated.

Even at the Marxes' nadir, Harpo lends physical energy, Chico gets some funny malapropisms...and Groucho is in fine fettle when he's allowed.

In the greater Marx canon...a relatively minor effort, but after a slow, expository start, the film slowly, steadily makes a case for itself as a fine comic adventure.

Though it's ultimately less than the sum of its parts, some of the parts are quite good and, even off their game, the Marx Brothers usually deliver the goods.

A highly influential, laugh-out-loud film-comedy masterpiece.

Tenaciously manages some memorable moments and makes a virtue of its slim running time by generally hastening to one of the team's most elaborate climaxes.

Sophisticated absurdity and sublime nonsense.

Keeps plot at a minimum, anarchy at a maximum, which is a good place to be for the fearless foursome of 1930s screen comedy. 

More so than any of the other Paramount films, Animal Crackers is Groucho's picture.

The opening ten minutes of Horse Feathers have more laughs than most comedy features muster in their entirety. And there's more where that came from...

For all its wild comic abandon, Duck Soup has darker implications than the usual Marx Brothers comedy and, as such, feels the most relevant and sharp in its satire.

Universal's new three-disc The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection Restored Blu-ray Edition offers the best chance yet on home video to appreciate the Brothers and their brand of anarchic, sometimes surreal comedy...