Review of Love Happy

Love Happy (1949)
3/10
I didn't love it and it didn't make me happy.
21 January 2008
If you watch this film as a Marx Brothers fan then there is some hope, but for the neutral it's a disjointed and disappointing effort that raises few laughs, has no plot to speak of and goes nowhere with no purpose. Film buffs will tell you that the minute of the film in which a young Marilyn Monroe appears is worth the entrance fee (it's not) or that Raymond Burr as a vertical baddie is wonderful (it isn't) or that it's great to see so much of Harpo (give me strength) but this independent, though grumpy, soul thought it was a dog's breakfast of a film stitched together from mediocre musical numbers and half-hearted Marx Brother's cameos. If you take it as given that the Marx Brothers in their pomp were great (which I'm afraid these 21st century eyes don't) then this is the runt of their offerings and should be consigned to the file marked 'watch once, forget'.

Bottom line....I didn't love it and it didn't make me happy.
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