Bud Abbott and Lou Costello formed a successful comedian duo in the 1940s, especially in the United States, following traditional parameters of circus and vaudeville comedy, such as the rich clown (Abbott) and poor clown (Costello).
The duo's best moments were certainly the equivocal dialogues, often based on homophones, which they explored to the point of exhaustion. In this film there is one of those dialogues, at the dinner that they don't intend to pay for, which is probably the highest and most entertaining point of the film.
The drawback of this type of dialogue is its difficult translation, which perhaps explains the duo's lower popularity abroad, when compared to other successful duos, such as Laurel & Hardy or Martin & Lewis.
The problem is that the argument of this film is very weak, it insistently resorts to physical comedy, on the part of Costello, and the narrative construction, which is not very consistent, ends up serving as a mere pretext for the succession of popular and somewhat cheap, vaudeville comedy duets , from the duo.
It certainly won't be one of the duo's best films, not even for Abbott and Costello fans. For others, it is just another consumer product, produced in Hollywood, for undemanding moviegoers.
The duo's best moments were certainly the equivocal dialogues, often based on homophones, which they explored to the point of exhaustion. In this film there is one of those dialogues, at the dinner that they don't intend to pay for, which is probably the highest and most entertaining point of the film.
The drawback of this type of dialogue is its difficult translation, which perhaps explains the duo's lower popularity abroad, when compared to other successful duos, such as Laurel & Hardy or Martin & Lewis.
The problem is that the argument of this film is very weak, it insistently resorts to physical comedy, on the part of Costello, and the narrative construction, which is not very consistent, ends up serving as a mere pretext for the succession of popular and somewhat cheap, vaudeville comedy duets , from the duo.
It certainly won't be one of the duo's best films, not even for Abbott and Costello fans. For others, it is just another consumer product, produced in Hollywood, for undemanding moviegoers.