You jump into The Marx Brothers, that's an immediate thumbs up from me. A Night At The Opera is among my all-time favorite movies. On a separate note, if you want to see the only proper "epic" comedy I can think of, highly recommend It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Absolutely hilarious.
Some of the stories I've read about the Marx Brothers make me laugh, especially on "Night of the Opera". One was about MGM"s producer Irving Thalberg continually being late for meetings with them, so they began to show their displeasure for it(once by piling all his furniture against the door, locking him out). When he was late again, he arrived to find the brothers had started a fire in his office fireplace, had stripped naked and were roasting potatoes. After that, Thalberg never was late for another meeting.
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot but don't let that fool you ... he really is an idiot." Classic line from one of the greatest comedy of all times and a major, major influence on modern comedies.
Greatest comedy act of all time, I’m 47 and the Marx Brothers have always been my go to movies, been watching them from a child…..pure genius that to this day had filtered through and influenced so many
Margaret Dumant was a gift to Groucho and he loved her with all his heart. She was the straightest straight man on earth. They worked together all the way up to her passing.
Thank you very much for being one of the few people to react to a movie which isn't drawn from the few dozen movies that reactors usually do. It's nice to see something different once in a while.
Most of the Marx Brothers movies were originally stage plays . Harpo got a bad review one time where they said his voice was Annoying, so that night he went out on stage and didn't speak a single word! He can speak just fine but he just made the conscious decision to stop talking and it threw the entire evening into chaos. Once they realized how well chaos worked,; they never looked back! :-) They are geniuses ❤
This is one of my favorite films of all time. The banter, the goofiness of Harpo, the terrible wordplay by Chico, and just the utter absurdity of the whole thing.
Awesome reaction!! This is one of my ALL TIME favorites. The Marx brothers are Hollywood history. They have a host of great comedy films that you should check out. Groucho Marx was known for his famous mustache and glasses. By the way, the mustache was painted on.
Bravo to you for having the courage to watch a film from the 1930’s. None of the other reactors have done this yet. How about watching The Women from 1939. A true classic you won’t regret.
"A Night at Casablanca" and "A Night at the Opera" along with this one are my 3 favorite Marx Bros. movies. But they are ALL great. The characters may me dumb, but the writing is way smart
I watched "Duck Soup" on TV as a young child. I thought it very funny. But, I do remember feeling confused when they pulled down the window shade to stop the giant bullets.
You have to watch ALL the MARX BROTHERS movies! They are ALL hilarious. LOVE HARPO'S harp playing, he was a master at it (usually EVERY movie has a segment where he will play the harp) and CHICO is a master pianist and always has a scene where he does play the piano in each movie. GROUCHO's mustache and eyebrows are painted on. Harpo is the one wearing the blonde curly wig and he never speaks in any of the movies, his character is mute. I grew up watching these movies on Saturday afternoon TV back in the 1950's I LOVE the Marx Brothers movies
That's awesome that you reacted to a Marx Brothers movie. And their best one too. It's funny, Zeppo never had a lot to do in their movies (I heard it was because his sense of humor was too much like Groucho's and you couldn't have 2 Grouchos in a movie) but when he left the team after Duck Soup I never thought their films were as good without him. I think their first 5 films were their best but a lot of people like their later films too.
Groucho's moustache is black greasepaint and started in Vaudeville when he arrived late and didn't have time to apply his fake moustache and did a quick one with makeup.
OH BOY. Congratulations! Finally we're getting some Classics to hear reactors select! Of course, I'd have pushed you into ROOM SERVICE, then NIGHT AT OPERA / DAY AT RACES first, but ah well... all of their films 'fit' into our entertainment history.
Duck Soup is one of the greatest comedies of all time. There are gags in this movie that have been recreated over and over in other movies. The Marx Brothers were comic geniuses.
When they were in vaudeville, Groucho was running late and didn't have time to glue on the mustache he usually wore. So he smeared black greasepaint on. The manager of the theater was furious and told him he had to wear the real glued-on mustache, but Groucho already decided he liked the greasepaint one. He said, "The audience laughed at the jokes just as much." The manager yelled back, "I'm paying for a real mustache, and I want a real mustache!" So Groucho handed him the mustache, kept painting the greasepaint mustache on, and an iconic character was born.
Firefly: "As my new Secretary of War, what are your thoughts on the military?" Chicolini: "Well, I prefer a standing army." Firefly: "Why is that?" Chicolini: "Because you save all that money on chairs...."
Groucho used to wear a fake moustache on stage, but one night he didn't have time to apply it so he just smeared on some black greasepaint. It worked, so that's what he did from then on. If you react to more Marx Brothers films, I suggest you keep it between "The Cocoanuts", their first film, and "A Day at the Races", their last really good film. The ones after that decline drastically in quality, although "Go West" has a terrific third act on a speeding train.
Yes, after "A Day at the Races" the movies aren't quite as good. Most of the classic Marx movies are when they were with Paramount Pictures, ending with "Duck Soup." Starting with "A Night at the Opera" they moved over to MGM under the watchful eye of Irving Thalberg. Thalberg was a strong believer in plot, and insisted that the Marxes were sympathetic characters for the audience to connect with. It worked for a couple of movies, but after that it started to go downhill. The anarchy was gone and the Marxes were sappy clowns who were only around to help the protagonist.
@@Fishmorph Thalberg died shortly after A Day at the Races, and nobody else at the studio ever "got" them quite as well. Also, the audience was in on the joke by that time, and expected all the usual bits.
The Marx Brothers brought comedic genius to the "talkies." Chico is actually a very talented pianist and Harpo plays the harp beautifully. Groucho is the sarcastic one. The mirror scene and the peanut vendor are just genius. When I was a little kid, my grandparents were watching A Night at the Opera, and Chico was playing the piano, but it got destroyed. Then Harpo pulls the soundboard out of the piano and plays it like a harp. Been a huge fan every since.
At this point in his movie career Groucho’s mustache is grease paint, and not a piece that is glued on 😉. And later in his career is his own facial hair.
So glad you gave this a shot, I love those guys. Their first few movies were stage plays, later they'd take some skits out on the road to test the material. I have all 13 of their films. The 4th brother Zeppo left the group after the first 5 films so then it was just Groucho, Chico and Harpo. At that point they left Paramount for MGM where they had bigger budgets. Each film had a couple of songs and usually a chance for Harpo and Chico to show off their musical talents. Many consider this to be their funniest film along with "A Night at the Opera" but I prefer "Animal Crackers". For me the nonsense ending of this film ruins it. Their other 2 animal name films were "Horse Feathers" and "Monkey Business".
New to the channel. Got a rec because I'm a huge Marx Brothers fan. Loved your react! If you dig the Marx Brothers, watch Monkey Business next! Their five films with Paramount (The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup) are just pure anarchy in the best sense of the word. Their first two films for MGM, A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races, are regarded as their best along with Duck Soup.
The Marx Bros. (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo) are always hilarious! Groucho usually plays the lead but he and Harpo (who doesn't talk) usually get the big laughs. BTW, A Night in Casablanca, Horse Feathers, A Night at the Opera are also fun ones.
I think it was in A Day at the Races that Groucho uttered the infamous lines I once shot an elephant in my pajamas ... How an elephant got in my pajamas I'll never know
"Duck Soup" was the last and ultimate Marx Brothers movie during their period at Paramount Pictures. Each of the Paramount Marx Brothers movies was an exercise in complete comedy anarchy progressing from ruining a hotel in Florida (The Coconuts), a country house party in the Hamptons in Long Island (Animal Crackers), an ocean liner (Monkey Business), a college campus (Horse Feathers) and, finally, the destruction of an entire nation (Duck Soup). After that there was nothing left but to move to MGM, where their films were still funny, but under much stricter control. For instance, MGM insisted upon intruding a love interest and the plot had to entail the brothers actually attempting to accomplish some positive objective. That clearly was never the case in the Paramount films, which simply were about the brothers creating mayhem for its' own sake.
First Marx Brothers movie I ever watched and always my favourite. Apparently, Italian dictator Mussolini thought that the Marx Brothers were making fun of him with this film and the portrayal of Firefly, much to their delight. Real world country Fredonia(1 E)said that the picture was making their country look bad. Groucho shot back that they should change the country name, as it was making their picture look bad. The running gag of Harpo cutting peoples possessions with his scissors, the mirror gag, the hat scene....all make it so hilarious. The record and him shooting it out of the air, XD!!!
Liking and commenting just to join the chorus of people wanting more classic movie reactions. If you want a really wild and crazy comedy from that era, try Hellzapoppin’. It’s something else.
Marx Brothers movies always have a handful of songs, but aren't really musicals. Chico normally gets a piano solo of some sort, Harpo plays the harp, and Groucho sings. Sometimes all at once. For more of the best you gotta look at A Night At the Opera, specifically the stateroom scene, and At the Circus for the best Marx Brothers song, "Lydia the Tattooed Lady," by Arlen and Harburg who wrote The Wizard of Oz.
But when it comes to actual old school musicals, the best ones out there are Fiddler On The Roof, Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Victor/Victoria, and... let's go with All That Jazz for a wild card!
If you like this movie you should check out a movie from around 1935 called International House. It stars WC Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bela Lugosi, Alan Pangborn, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Cab Calloway, Baby Rose Marie, Rudy Vallee...and it's just absolutely hilarious from start to finish.
There’s a reason they were so funny. They were a vaudeville act so we’re on stage several times a day. They had routines which worked. They would also take scenes on the road and only include the ones which work. That’s why their comedy lasts and is so much better than modern crap where they just improvise and wonder why people don’t find it funny when they thought it was so funny on the set.
Actually the Marx Brothers were a Vaudville Act first and would work out alot of their schtick live on stage . They were actually very talented and some played amazing piano and violin
My favorite of the Marx Brothers films is A Night at the Opera! I am a HUGE Queen fanatic, and they named my favorite album of all time after that movie, so of course I had to check the movie out and I loved it as well lol!
Some of the true architects (and anarchists) of film comedy, along with W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Other classic comedies you need to watch are Arsinic and Old Lace, Some Like It Hot and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Now watch _A Hard Day's Night_ by the Beatles. There's a reason it's been called "The _Citizen Kane_ of jukebox musicals" - and not just because no one knows about the sled!
When you watch these older movies, you realize where the iconic movie tropes came from. Nearly every comedy film owes something to the Marx Bros., Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and quite a few others. Same with drama. If you've never seen it, watch Casablanca.
Yeah, the Marx Brothers are hilarious. They made a lot of great very silly movies. A Night at the Opera, Horse Feathers and Animal Crackers are some of my All time favorite movies.
You are so lucky, the Marx Brothers did a dozen or so movies you have yet to discover! Trivia: Queen named some of its album titles after Marx Brothers movies!
Little Trivia about the Marx brothers Harpo that's the red head curly haired guy who doesn't talk Well 1st actually all of them were gifted improve comics with theater backgrounds. Now, there were pages of the script that was blank except for one sentence: "Harpo does something funny." That explains a lot don't it XD
Yes! FANTASTIC choice mate! Check out Animal Crackers and Monkey Business next; they are both hilarious. I grew up watching Marx Bros. so u have no idea how much it means to me that you'd watch them. My brother and i even came up with our own skit based on the Marx Bros that we still remember to this day😄
The Marx Brothers are so much fun to watch! If you haven't seen Animal Crackers (1930) yet, definitely check that one out too! My whole family quotes lines from it constantly! 😂😂😂
Just think, Groucho Marx was born about 130 years ago. This movie was made about 90 years ago. The world was very, very different back then, but the Marx Brother's comedy is so good, it's still hysterically funny, even after almost a century. That's real art. And, yeah, you definitely need to check out some of their other classic comedies. They always just play the same characters with different names, the movie plots don't really matter, and everyone has a good time.
When the Marx Brothers were on Vaudeville, Groucho used to wear a fake mustache. But one day decided to put on black grease paint. Obsurd, but he decided to keep it.
Groucho is the one with the mustache Chico is the one that plays the piano and has the cone hat Harpo is the Mute. He plays the harp, wears a top hat and uses a horn. Zeppo is the one that is least funny. He has straight dark hair. Gummo is the only Marx Brother that never got into the movies. He was the one that was going bald
If you liked the Marx Brothers in addition to their movies I recommend Imposters. It's a tribute to that kind of zany comedy Stanley Tucci did that stars just about every great character actor from the time it was made.
You should be sure to check out Night at the Opera and Day at the Races, also. The rock group Queen were such fans of the Marx brothers that they named two of their albums after those films.
You jump into The Marx Brothers, that's an immediate thumbs up from me. A Night At The Opera is among my all-time favorite movies.
On a separate note, if you want to see the only proper "epic" comedy I can think of, highly recommend It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Absolutely hilarious.
Yes, look at "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
Yes IAMMMW has a smorgasbord of comedy greats.
Yeah A Nights at The Opera is a comedy classic for sure
It’s one of those once a year films, and yet I haven’t seen it in 20 years.
Some of the stories I've read about the Marx Brothers make me laugh, especially on "Night of the Opera". One was about MGM"s producer Irving Thalberg continually being late for meetings with them, so they began to show their displeasure for it(once by piling all his furniture against the door, locking him out). When he was late again, he arrived to find the brothers had started a fire in his office fireplace, had stripped naked and were roasting potatoes. After that, Thalberg never was late for another meeting.
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot but don't let that fool you ... he really is an idiot."
Classic line from one of the greatest comedy of all times and a major, major influence on modern comedies.
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were fighting for this women honor, which is more than shes ever done.
Dude, this is a great choice. The Marx Brothers are just so hilarious
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Greatest comedy act of all time, I’m 47 and the Marx Brothers have always been my go to movies, been watching them from a child…..pure genius that to this day had filtered through and influenced so many
Margaret Dumant was a gift to Groucho and he loved her with all his heart. She was the straightest straight man on earth. They worked together all the way up to her passing.
pls more marx brothers, the coconuts, night at the opera, day at the races, all their work is just comedy gold
Now, you have to experience the rest of the Marx Brothers films.
Including the ones they made made right back at the start. How many did they make again? Both with Zeppo and without Zeppo?
Except perhaps "The Big Store"
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Night at the Opera is my favorite Marx Brothers film.
The first movie, THE 🥥COCONUTS
Thank you very much for being one of the few people to react to a movie which isn't drawn from the few dozen movies that reactors usually do. It's
nice to see something different once in a while.
Most of the Marx Brothers movies were originally stage plays . Harpo got a bad review one time where they said his voice was Annoying, so that night he went out on stage and didn't speak a single word! He can speak just fine but he just made the conscious decision to stop talking and it threw the entire evening into chaos. Once they realized how well chaos worked,; they never looked back! :-) They are geniuses ❤
His voice is available for anyone to hear by way of the glories of TH-cam.
P.S. I always imagined he'd have a higher pitched voice than he did.
Only Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers were originally stage plays.
Yeah, the mirror scene is one of the most iconic in all cinema.
Harpo did that routine with Lucy in one of her episodes
@@biguy617 He certainly did
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First time I saw Harpo jump in the lemonade, I was laughing so hard I was crying and doubled over 😂 Something about it hit me bad lol
One of my two favorite comedies of the 30s. The other one is the equally insane "Bringing Up Baby".
Also a good movie. One of the really good screwball comedies.
My two favorites too, along with The Awful Truth
Duck Soup is probably my favorite Marx Brothers movie. It was actually parodied in an episode of Animaniacs in either 1993 or 94.
This is dope that you reacted to Duck Soup. When I was a kid I knew Groucho's lines by heart.
This is one of my favorite films of all time. The banter, the goofiness of Harpo, the terrible wordplay by Chico, and just the utter absurdity of the whole thing.
Awesome reaction!! This is one of my ALL TIME favorites. The Marx brothers are Hollywood history. They have a host of great comedy films that you should check out. Groucho Marx was known for his famous mustache and glasses. By the way, the mustache was painted on.
Bravo to you for having the courage to watch a film from the 1930’s. None of the other reactors have done this yet. How about watching The Women from 1939. A true classic you won’t regret.
I love that movie as well as The Thin Man series.
A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races are amazing.
"A Night at Casablanca" and "A Night at the Opera" along with this one are my 3 favorite Marx Bros. movies. But they are ALL great.
The characters may me dumb, but the writing is way smart
I love these old comedies! You should check out Abbott and costello, laurel and hardy and Jerry Lewis to
“Treasure of the Sierra Madre” - Humphrey Bogart, great drama
More old comedy - “Modern Times” - Charlie Chaplin
This...is just the beginning. Bravo!
I watched "Duck Soup" on TV as a young child. I thought it very funny. But, I do remember feeling confused when they pulled down the window shade to stop the giant bullets.
You have to watch ALL the MARX BROTHERS movies! They are ALL hilarious. LOVE HARPO'S harp playing, he was a master at it (usually EVERY movie has a segment where he will play the harp) and CHICO is a master pianist and always has a scene where he does play the piano in each movie. GROUCHO's mustache and eyebrows are painted on. Harpo is the one wearing the blonde curly wig and he never speaks in any of the movies, his character is mute. I grew up watching these movies on Saturday afternoon TV back in the 1950's I LOVE the Marx Brothers movies
That's awesome that you reacted to a Marx Brothers movie. And their best one too. It's funny, Zeppo never had a lot to do in their movies (I heard it was because his sense of humor was too much like Groucho's and you couldn't have 2 Grouchos in a movie) but when he left the team after Duck Soup I never thought their films were as good without him. I think their first 5 films were their best but a lot of people like their later films too.
Groucho's moustache is black greasepaint and started in Vaudeville when he arrived late and didn't have time to apply his fake moustache and did a quick one with makeup.
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OH BOY. Congratulations! Finally we're getting some Classics to hear reactors select! Of course, I'd have pushed you into ROOM SERVICE, then NIGHT AT OPERA / DAY AT RACES first, but ah well... all of their films 'fit' into our entertainment history.
The brothers looked so much alike that they could play one another's characters and did that every now and then on stage, just to switch things up.
Duck Soup is one of the greatest comedies of all time. There are gags in this movie that have been recreated over and over in other movies. The Marx Brothers were comic geniuses.
His moustache was ink - because he hated taking a fake one off and on!
When they were in vaudeville, Groucho was running late and didn't have time to glue on the mustache he usually wore. So he smeared black greasepaint on. The manager of the theater was furious and told him he had to wear the real glued-on mustache, but Groucho already decided he liked the greasepaint one. He said, "The audience laughed at the jokes just as much." The manager yelled back, "I'm paying for a real mustache, and I want a real mustache!" So Groucho handed him the mustache, kept painting the greasepaint mustache on, and an iconic character was born.
Firefly: "As my new Secretary of War, what are your thoughts on the military?"
Chicolini: "Well, I prefer a standing army."
Firefly: "Why is that?"
Chicolini: "Because you save all that money on chairs...."
I did stage acting back in my 20s. I had to wear glue like that too for one of the plays I did. Man it was painful to take off.
Groucho used to wear a fake moustache on stage, but one night he didn't have time to apply it so he just smeared on some black greasepaint. It worked, so that's what he did from then on. If you react to more Marx Brothers films, I suggest you keep it between "The Cocoanuts", their first film, and "A Day at the Races", their last really good film. The ones after that decline drastically in quality, although "Go West" has a terrific third act on a speeding train.
Yes, after "A Day at the Races" the movies aren't quite as good. Most of the classic Marx movies are when they were with Paramount Pictures, ending with "Duck Soup." Starting with "A Night at the Opera" they moved over to MGM under the watchful eye of Irving Thalberg. Thalberg was a strong believer in plot, and insisted that the Marxes were sympathetic characters for the audience to connect with. It worked for a couple of movies, but after that it started to go downhill. The anarchy was gone and the Marxes were sappy clowns who were only around to help the protagonist.
@@Fishmorph Thalberg died shortly after A Day at the Races, and nobody else at the studio ever "got" them quite as well. Also, the audience was in on the joke by that time, and expected all the usual bits.
Marx Brothers are BRILLIANT. Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, A Night At The Opera also must watches
How about some Bob Hope and Bing Crosby The Road movies? Like, Road to Singapore, Road to Zanzibar, Road to Morocco. There are lots more.
88 years old and still hysterical!
Groucho had the longest fame. He even got his own show. Yakko Warner was modeled after Groucho
The Marx Brothers brought comedic genius to the "talkies." Chico is actually a very talented pianist and Harpo plays the harp beautifully. Groucho is the sarcastic one. The mirror scene and the peanut vendor are just genius. When I was a little kid, my grandparents were watching A Night at the Opera, and Chico was playing the piano, but it got destroyed. Then Harpo pulls the soundboard out of the piano and plays it like a harp. Been a huge fan every since.
Mirror scene was re-enacted with Lucille Ball and Harpo on "I Love Lucy".
@@williambevins Yes - brilliant!
At this point in his movie career Groucho’s mustache is grease paint, and not a piece that is glued on 😉. And later in his career is his own facial hair.
Paramount had a studio in New York, it became Kaufman-Astoria studios
OMG god bless you for reacting to Marx Brothers!!
As this persona, Groucho's mustache was always just put on with makeup, a holdover from when they began the act in Vaudeville.
So glad you gave this a shot, I love those guys. Their first few movies were stage plays, later they'd take some skits out on the road to test the material. I have all 13 of their films. The 4th brother Zeppo left the group after the first 5 films so then it was just Groucho, Chico and Harpo. At that point they left Paramount for MGM where they had bigger budgets. Each film had a couple of songs and usually a chance for Harpo and Chico to show off their musical talents.
Many consider this to be their funniest film along with "A Night at the Opera" but I prefer "Animal Crackers". For me the nonsense ending of this film ruins it. Their other 2 animal name films were "Horse Feathers" and "Monkey Business".
New to the channel. Got a rec because I'm a huge Marx Brothers fan. Loved your react! If you dig the Marx Brothers, watch Monkey Business next! Their five films with Paramount (The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup) are just pure anarchy in the best sense of the word. Their first two films for MGM, A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races, are regarded as their best along with Duck Soup.
People still to this day think Harpo Marx couldn't speak, he just didn't talk in he's movies.
The Marx Bros. (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo) are always hilarious! Groucho usually plays the lead but he and Harpo (who doesn't talk) usually get the big laughs. BTW, A Night in Casablanca, Horse Feathers, A Night at the Opera are also fun ones.
Welcome to the world of TRUE comedy. So many incredible comedians at that time. Marx Brothers were great.
My favorite Marx Brothers film is "A Night at the Opera", which, by the way, was remade in the 1990s under the title "Brain Donors".
I think it was in A Day at the Races that Groucho uttered the infamous lines
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas ...
How an elephant got in my pajamas I'll never know
You have to watch more Marx Brothers movies for sure!! I absolutely love their movies!!!
I love the Marx Brothers! thanks for doing this one... you'll love more of their work
Great choice. Do A Night at the Opera, the cabin scene is quintessential comic genius "Make that three hard-boiled eggs".
"Duck Soup" was the last and ultimate Marx Brothers movie during their period at Paramount Pictures. Each of the Paramount Marx Brothers movies was an exercise in complete comedy anarchy progressing from ruining a hotel in Florida (The Coconuts), a country house party in the Hamptons in Long Island (Animal Crackers), an ocean liner (Monkey Business), a college campus (Horse Feathers) and, finally, the destruction of an entire nation (Duck Soup). After that there was nothing left but to move to MGM, where their films were still funny, but under much stricter control. For instance, MGM insisted upon intruding a love interest and the plot had to entail the brothers actually attempting to accomplish some positive objective. That clearly was never the case in the Paramount films, which simply were about the brothers creating mayhem for its' own sake.
hey marco my dad loves this movie your movie reactions are cool/nice person
First Marx Brothers movie I ever watched and always my favourite.
Apparently, Italian dictator Mussolini thought that the Marx Brothers were making fun of him with this film and the portrayal of Firefly, much to their delight.
Real world country Fredonia(1 E)said that the picture was making their country look bad. Groucho shot back that they should change the country name, as it was making their picture look bad.
The running gag of Harpo cutting peoples possessions with his scissors, the mirror gag, the hat scene....all make it so hilarious. The record and him shooting it out of the air, XD!!!
OMG! You can't stop after just one Marx Brothers film. My favorite is Animal Crackers. Harpo and the butler setting up the card table puts me away!
Today's Comedy Writers and Comedians could take lessons from the early Comedians. Most don't know what pure comedy is. 😥
The Marx brothers are awesome. Animal Crackers was awesome, and a night in Casablanca is one of my favorites.
Liking and commenting just to join the chorus of people wanting more classic movie reactions. If you want a really wild and crazy comedy from that era, try Hellzapoppin’. It’s something else.
Marx Brothers movies always have a handful of songs, but aren't really musicals. Chico normally gets a piano solo of some sort, Harpo plays the harp, and Groucho sings. Sometimes all at once. For more of the best you gotta look at A Night At the Opera, specifically the stateroom scene, and At the Circus for the best Marx Brothers song, "Lydia the Tattooed Lady," by Arlen and Harburg who wrote The Wizard of Oz.
But when it comes to actual old school musicals, the best ones out there are Fiddler On The Roof, Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Victor/Victoria, and... let's go with All That Jazz for a wild card!
If you like this movie you should check out a movie from around 1935 called International House. It stars WC Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bela Lugosi, Alan Pangborn, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Cab Calloway, Baby Rose Marie, Rudy Vallee...and it's just absolutely hilarious from start to finish.
There’s a reason they were so funny. They were a vaudeville act so we’re on stage several times a day. They had routines which worked. They would also take scenes on the road and only include the ones which work. That’s why their comedy lasts and is so much better than modern crap where they just improvise and wonder why people don’t find it funny when they thought it was so funny on the set.
The Marx Brothers still hold up because they are so anarchic. Still feel modern. And the mirror sequence is hilarious.
Harpo is the one doing the mirror routine with Groucho
Actually the Marx Brothers were a Vaudville Act first and would work out alot of their schtick live on stage . They were actually very talented and some played amazing piano and violin
My favorite of the Marx Brothers films is A Night at the Opera! I am a HUGE Queen fanatic, and they named my favorite album of all time after that movie, so of course I had to check the movie out and I loved it as well lol!
This comedy has a dark side. It satirizes the enthusiasm with which European countries went to war in 1914.
I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
Some of the true architects (and anarchists) of film comedy, along with W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
Other classic comedies you need to watch are Arsinic and Old Lace, Some Like It Hot and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Now watch _A Hard Day's Night_ by the Beatles. There's a reason it's been called "The _Citizen Kane_ of jukebox musicals" - and not just because no one knows about the sled!
Marx Bros movie reactions are so rare...this might be the first one. Stay ahead of the curve, watch more!
Wow I was wondering if anyone was ever going to react to Marx bros
When you watch these older movies, you realize where the iconic movie tropes came from. Nearly every comedy film owes something to the Marx Bros., Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and quite a few others. Same with drama. If you've never seen it, watch Casablanca.
Yeah, the Marx Brothers are hilarious. They made a lot of great very silly movies. A Night at the Opera, Horse Feathers and Animal Crackers are some of my All time favorite movies.
Harpo and Lucille Ball recreated the mirror scene on I Love Lucy
You are so lucky, the Marx Brothers did a dozen or so movies you have yet to discover! Trivia: Queen named some of its album titles after Marx Brothers movies!
Little Trivia about the Marx brothers Harpo that's the red head curly haired guy who doesn't talk Well 1st actually all of them were gifted improve comics with theater backgrounds. Now, there were pages of the script that was blank except for one sentence:
"Harpo does something funny."
That explains a lot don't it XD
The best part is the word play, but it helps if you're familiar with period slang and historical references.
good idea if the enemy sees trenches they'll think some soldiers are waiting to fire
Yes! FANTASTIC choice mate! Check out Animal Crackers and Monkey Business next; they are both hilarious. I grew up watching Marx Bros. so u have no idea how much it means to me that you'd watch them. My brother and i even came up with our own skit based on the Marx Bros that we still remember to this day😄
The Marx Brothers are so much fun to watch! If you haven't seen Animal Crackers (1930) yet, definitely check that one out too! My whole family quotes lines from it constantly! 😂😂😂
Just think, Groucho Marx was born about 130 years ago. This movie was made about 90 years ago. The world was very, very different back then, but the Marx Brother's comedy is so good, it's still hysterically funny, even after almost a century. That's real art. And, yeah, you definitely need to check out some of their other classic comedies. They always just play the same characters with different names, the movie plots don't really matter, and everyone has a good time.
When the Marx Brothers were on Vaudeville, Groucho used to wear a fake mustache. But one day decided to put on black grease paint. Obsurd, but he decided to keep it.
In my opinion, Animal Crackers is the best of their movies. It’s amazingly wild and funny.
5:06, etc.--Edgar Kennedy, the slow burn king
Now you must experience Abbott and Castello
Groucho is the one with the mustache
Chico is the one that plays the piano and has the cone hat
Harpo is the Mute. He plays the harp, wears a top hat and uses a horn.
Zeppo is the one that is least funny. He has straight dark hair.
Gummo is the only Marx Brother that never got into the movies. He was the one that was going bald
Love you doing some classic films. And you can never go wrong with the Marx Brothers
OMG so much yes! Watch A Night At the Opera. I'm so happy seeing more reactors watching classics.
LOVE Groucho! Bugs Bunny was based on him (love Bugs, too lol)
If you liked the Marx Brothers in addition to their movies I recommend Imposters. It's a tribute to that kind of zany comedy Stanley Tucci did that stars just about every great character actor from the time it was made.
You should be sure to check out Night at the Opera and Day at the Races, also.
The rock group Queen were such fans of the Marx brothers that they named two of their albums after those films.
I remember this time in band camp....
That looked like Gummo Marx in the bath tub with Harpo
FYI Groucho's mustache is just stage makeup. No fake hair at all
It is even funnier if you understand the 1930s pop culture references.
The Characters from the Devil's Rejects are named after characters He Played.
If you like "Duck Soup" (and who doesn't), try the 2nd most insane early '30s comedy, "International House", with W. C. Fields.
The mustache is painted on. They got their start in vaudeville and that was how they dressed for their acts.