7/10
Monkey Business (1931) ***
3 December 2004
Another good Marx Brothers comedy, and this time much shorter than the first two at only 77 minutes. I'd probably still give the nod to ANIMAL CRACKERS as the most enjoyable of the first three originals, as this one played more like a domesticated type of film and not quite as bizarre or surreal. It actually felt very much like any other group of comedians like The Three Stooges or Abbott and Costello could have been placed in the same situations with similar results.

As enjoyable as MONKEY BUSINESS is, Margaret Dumont is missed and I felt it sunk a bit near the end.

***/****
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