The Cocoanuts

Hey, it was 1929, and sound pictures were only two years old, so maybe I should give this one a bit of a pass. See, this suffers from the same problem as a lot of later Marx Brothers movies. The parts with the brothers are great, but then for some fucking reason there's a bunch of terrible songs sung by minor characters scattered throughout. But here, as opposed to the late 30s, I'll let it slide, because like I said the sound thing was new so filmmakers figured they had to fit in all kinds of different sounds, kind of like when you see a 3D movie they have to have a can thrown right at your face or somebody swing around a broom or other long object. Anyway, it's useless to describe the plot, because as in most Marx Brothers movies there barely is one, so in conclusion this is not the worst Marx Brothers movie but it's certainly in the bottom half to me.

RATING: 62%