After years of mainly knowing this movie as the first time Laurel & Hardy appeared on film outside of their home studio of Hal Roach Productions, I finally watched this on DVD just now. Stan & Ollie play unprepared magicians on stage while emcee Jack Benny gets the results! That was the highlight of this hodgepodge which also showcases Joan Crawford singing, Buster Keaton doing a comic dance in an Egyptian costume, and Cliff Edwards-years before his iconic work voicing Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio-becoming the first personality to perform that now-iconic song "Singin' in the Rain" which is reprised with nearly the whole cast at the end. Those were pretty entertaining though at two hours, this was a pretty long picture and there's quite some tedious moments in between the scenes I've cited. There's also some two-strip Technicolor scenes that looked scratchy though historically they're interesting to look at. Also monotonous is the fact that much of the camera work is stationary with rare angle changes of which includes some overhead shots pre-Busby Berkeley. Still, The Hollywood Revue of 1929 should be of interest to anyone interested in completing their viewing of certain stars I listed above...P.S. Among the players is Lionel Barrymore who's among the cast of my favorite movie-It's a Wonderful Life-I always like to cite when someone from there appears in another movie I review on this site...