mattkratz This was a good combination of jokes and sight gags. It starts off with a hilarious scene at a restaurant and never lets up. Groucho Marx plays a manager who has to back a pompous opera star and pay him $1,000 a night to sing. Any fan of the Marx Brothers will love this. My favorite scenes include the opening scene, the tearing up of the contract ("There ain't no sanity clause!"), the scene where there are too many people in the small room, the line "I almost made the opera," and the "showdown opera" scene at the end. If you love the Marx Brothers or just need an introduction to their movies-this is the perfect one for you! By the way, the opera at the beginning is "Pagliacci."**** out of ****

richspenc Groucho strikes gold again in Hollywood's age of gold in 'Night at the opera". The hilarious moments start right away at a restaurant where Mrs. Claypool (Margarate Durmonte) is meeting Otis P. Driftwood (Groucho) and he's already there with another woman (and with his back to Margarate) and he then joins Margarate (Groucho to Margarate: "you had your back to me. When I meet a woman I expect her to look at my face, that's the price she hasta pay"). Groucho continues ("I was only with that woman cause she reminded me of you. Everything about you also reminds me of you, your hair, your eyes, everything about you reminds me of you, except you".). The humor continues. The Marxs board a ship. So does Margarate and Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Kitty sings "Alone" to Riccardo (Allen Jones) with her wonderful voice. She's also very beautiful. Ricardo sings talented too. I also like how even in the middle of "Alone", the Marx bros continue their hyjinks such as Groucho asking a ship crew as ship is about to depart: "do I have time to leave the ship to pay a hotel bill?" Crew member: "no, its too late". Groucho: "thats fine with me". Then "Alone" continues so beautifully that I really didn't care that the song was interrupted halfway with the Marx's hyjinks. Numerous more hilarious scenes coming. Groucho finds out the size of his room when pushing his giant suitcase in there and sees it's almost the size of the room (Groucho to porter: "maybe tomorrow, can you take the case out of the room and I can go in it"). Out of the case comes stowaways Harpo, Chico, and Ricardo. Groucho orders food with them behind him in room (Harpo honks his horn then Groucho to caterer 3 times: "and two hard boiled eggs" Harpo honks shorter honk, "and one duck egg" Harpo honks repeatedly, "either it's getting foggy out or 12 more hard boiled eggs"). Then more people, one after another, enter the room; two maids, an electrician, a manicurist, some girl, three caterers with food, and a cleaner. Groucho to cleaner: " you can mop the ceiling, it's the only place where there's room". Watch what happens then when Margarate opens the door. Hilarious. Then another great music act on the ship deck with Jones singing Casi casa with the Italain passengers dancing enjoying it, then another great Chico piano performance. Soon then Harpo, Chico, and Jones disguising themselves as longbearded aviators (they impersonated the same 3 guys that were on the ship where Groucho said "is that 3 guys or one guy with 3 beards?"), and them presenting themselves City hall antics with Chico's very hilarious story about how they crossed the Atlantic and Harpo drinking glass after glass of water (and Groucho saying "hurry it up, I see a guy in the crowd with a rope"). Continuous very funny scenes include Groucho, the detective, and the disappearing beds in the apartment, and the Marx's antics at the opera including the great "take me out to the ballgame joke. And I know not everyone agrees but I also enjoyed the opera music, Kitty and Jones' "Alone" earlier on the ship, and the songs at the opera. Passion and.hilarious humur are a very really good mix

Ross622 Sam Wood's A Night at the Opera is one of the best comedic movies that I have seen in recent years. This the first movie that I saw that the Marx brothers starred in and for me it was worth my time, the movie tells the story of a business manager named Otis B. Driftwood (played by Groucho Marx) who is trying to get money from Mrs. Claypool (played by Margaret Dumont) in order to get her in high society and as well as trying to get her money, and comes up with an idea that opera is the best way of business and teams up with Fiorello (played by Chico Marx), and Tomasso (played by Harpo Marx) and as well as two rising opera stars Rosa Castaldi (played by Kitty Carlisle) and Ricardo Baroni (played by Allan Jones) and both don't like a selfish opera singer named Rodolfo Lassparri (played by Walter Woolf King). Sam Wood (1883-1949) was the perfect choice to direct this film and had he declined the offer the film wouldn't have been as perfect a film as it still is considered today. This movie is one of 1935s best films as well as one of the best comedy movies ever made.

utgard14 While I personally prefer the Marx Bros' Paramount films, this one is probably the best of their MGM work. It features some of their most famous bits. The contract scene between Groucho and Chico ("Party of the first part...") and the stateroom scene are comedy classics. There are tons of great lines throughout. Groucho's zingers are hilarious, as usual. It's not all good, though. The terrible singing numbers from Allan Jones and Kitty Carlisle leave a lot to be desired. The Marx Bros' comedy works best when it's a free-for-all, with rapid-fire jokes and one gag after another. The more they included forced romantic subplots and musical numbers, the slower the pace was. Still, the comedy is superb. Watch and enjoy the laughs. Just be prepared to fast-forward through the Jones/Carlisle scenes.