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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Victor Heerman |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 28 August, 1930 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | G (General Audience) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Comedies, Feature Film Comedy, Feature Film-comedy, Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 096895500039 |
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Customer Reviews of Animal Crackers
as good a take on academia as there was (at least til randal jarrell) ... does it matter that i complain the plot makes no sense? hardly! this was the marx brothers second movie (again based on one of their broadway shows) and the madness of the early films is running rife here. these earliest films are not as polished as the work from a few years later -- theyre just funnier. i leave it up to YOU to determine which is more imnportant in a comedy. <
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The Marxes' Strange Interlude
The first 15 minutes of "Animal Crackers" (1930) represent the Marx Brothers in top form, with Groucho's "Hooray for Captain Spaudling" an enduring classic. Regrettably, the film soon runs out of steam and the latter Groucho-Chico exchanges become rather tiresome. Harpo's physical viciousness toward Margaret Dumont is decidedly out of character -- a miscalculation he would not repeat. Zeppo, on the other hand, manages to upstage Groucho during the famous dictation scene. Director Victor Heerman keeps the camera nailed to the ground -- lacking the occasional cinematic flair evident in "The Cocoanuts." The Marxes are always worth seeing, but one wishes this enterprise had turned out better.
Hooray for Captain Spaulding!
The Marx Brothers' second movie, filmed in a studio in Astoria, Queens, and terribly stagey. Groucho is Captain Spaulding, the African explorer, and though there are some hilarious comedy routines (including the one where Groucho parodies Eugene O'Neil in a canoe), it feels as if everone is wearing a straightjacket. This one has pretty decent mucical numbers, including "Hooray for Captain Spaulding." The best is yet to come.