grantss Good fun. Not as good as their best, but better than most of their later stuff (eg At The Circus, The Big Store).

mike48128 I hadn't seen this one in a decade, and I forgot how great the ending was! Yes, it has the usual devices: Snappy dialogues, bad musical numbers, piano and harp solos, and tons of terrific satire, making fun of every "Western Movie" you have ever seen, drama or comedy. It especially "thumbs its nose" at the "big duel" so common it's a cliché. What sets it apart is the 12-minute-long but well-produced "climax chase ending" to sign over the deed to the barren "Gold Mine" which the railroad needs to buy for "the right of way" through it. Of course the Marx Bros. make the "pistol-packing" villains look like bumbling idiots. Harpo dumps all the wood in the trains' tinder box, then discovers that the train must continue to its destination after all. The "bad guys" are racing alongside the train in a horse-drawn buckboard. He totally "cannibalizes" the entire wooden-structure of the speeding steam locomotive, including all the cars, freight and luggage on board. Yes, this has been done before and since. (Remember the riverboat in "Around to World in 80 days, in 1955?) However, never has it been more effective and funnier than here, over 15 years earlier!

tavm This was the second Marx Brothers movie written by Irving Brecher and directed by Edward Buzzell, after At the Circus. As such, both were full of very funny Marx routines and had many visual gags to match. The beginning with Grouch and Harpo and Chico doing money exchanges is one of the funniest in their career. The train chase at the end was also very funny with some Buster Keaton-esque flavor which shouldn't be surprising as the Stone Face reportedly contributed some of those gags. Once again, it's great seeing Chico playing the piano (with an apple-or orange-he took from Harpo during some of that) and Harpo playing the harp (performing "The Land of Sky Blue Waters" which I didn't recognize as the Hamms beer commercial song since it sounded different here). Oh, and Groucho plays the guitar here, something he didn't do since Horse Feathers, as well as sing a few lines with Chico during a number by one of the romantic leads, John Carroll. Nothing more to say except, I recommend Go West. Actually, I think that was regular screen drunk Arthur Housman in the saloon sequence with Groucho and Harpo which I also enjoyed.

gridoon2018 The opening sequence of "Go West" ranks, in my opinion, right up there with the Marx Brothers' best: it's a perfectly timed and executed routine where all three brothers contribute equally. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie does not quite live up to that promising start. Of course there are moments of inspiration here and there (Groucho's finish of the song "You Can't Argue With Love", Harpo's "discussion" with the Indian chief, the scene where people keep entering a room and drawing a gun on the person in front of them, etc.), and the climactic train chase, although overextended, features lots of good stuntwork and special effects. But considering how popular and well-defined the Western is as a genre, this spoof has to count as a largely missed opportunity - the Marxes surely were capably of doing more with the concept. ** out of 4.