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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

So much average

best movie i've ever seen.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

A gem. The Marx brothers go to the opera and help two singers -- Alan Jones and Kitty Carlisle -- become stars. The plot is otherwise too screwy to lay out.Margaret Dumont plays her accustomed role as the dowager burdened with lots and lots of money. There's a minuscule scene in an opera box that illustrates Groucho's deep devotion to Margaret Dumont. The two are seated and someone else enters the box and begins a conversation with Dumont. That exchange is the focus of the scene. Yet, in the background, almost blurry we see Groucho at once turn and begin whispering to the young girl in the next box. She looks appalled and her escort snatches her away. Groucho quickly pivots back to Dumont as if nothing had happened.The jokes are too many too recount. Probably the most popular is the stateroom scene but I get more of an arousal jag out of the brothers driving the police sergeant, Emit O'Connor, nuts by shuffling beds around from one room to another while he tries to understand what's happening and meanwhile the apoplectic cop is moaning and pulling out what's left of his hair.The final scene at the opera is full of pratfalls and dangerous acrobatics until it settles down into a straight duet from Il Travatore.

Three zany con men sabotage an opera company to promote the careers of two talented singers.The great WC Fields said the only act he couldn't follow in Vaudeville was the Marx Bros. Here, you can see why. Their loopy chaos shatters all formal structures, high and low. Whether it's the high-falutin' Mrs. Claypool (Dumont) or the lowly city cops, all goes into the comedy grinder. There's more plot than usual, with the sketches neatly integrated. Of course, there has to be boring romantic interludes ( Jones & Carlisle) so everyone can catch their breath. For me, the highpoints are always Groucho's witty digs at poor uncomprehending Dumont. It's like two worlds speaking different languages bumping into each other. Shouldn't forget Sig Rumann as flustered impresario Gottlieb, who has to watch his big plans get chewed up Marx style. Plus, I sure hope they paid those stunt doubles triple-time for their great work in the boffo climax. Anyhow, it's a big MGM production giving our anarchic trio all their wacko talents would ever need.

If you have kids, you have to introduce them to the Marx Bros and this one and a Day at the Races are the best for that. The dialog is super clever and meant for adults but the kids eat up the action. They will have better senses of humor and will more likely grow up to be better people. A Night at the Opera is just plain fun. If you think its not funny then go back and lay down in your casket. The Marx Bros did to opera what it deserves. The contract scene should be a standard in any law course. You can go on and on. A true masterpiece. I love Duck Soup but this is the great one and there never has been anything close. I have seen it 30 times, know much of it by heart and every time I see it, I laugh. And I always feel a lot better afterward.

Two years after making their last Paramount film, Duck Soup, the remaining Marx brothers-Groucho, Chico, and Harpo since Zeppo left-ended up at M-G-M after Chico played bridge with head of production Irving G. Thalberg and made a deal with him. With Thalberg on board, there would now be more production-meaning more story, more balance of comedy and drama with the juvenile leads and more music other than those of the Marx siblings. So now we have Allan Jones and Kitty Carlisle as the romantic leads who we're supposed to care about and who are cared for by these brothers. They're actually not bad both acting and singing-wise even if you're not a fan of opera as I'm certainly not. We also have Walter Woolf King as the villain which is proved when he mistreats Harpo. But while there's not as much comedy as in their previous Paramount offerings, there's still enough of it that you laugh as much and as loud as in those earlier efforts. And not only does Groucho woo and insult Margaret Dumont delightedly again to wondrous effect here, Sig Ruman as an opera financier and Robert Emment O'Connor as a cop also provide their own great comic moments to the Marxes. Oh, and after being absent in Duck Soup, once again Chico plays his piano and Harpo his harp to entertaining results with the children watching and laughing at them an added pleasure. Oh, and Harpo also once again does his comic piano playing to good effect. Nothing more to add here except when watching the DVD, I highly recommend the Leonard Maltin commentary that accompanies this one as he provides great info throughout the picture including the missing opening sequence now considered lost. So, yeah, that's a high recommendation of A Night at the Opera.