Animal Crackers

Name: Animal Crackers
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Released: September 6, 1930
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Hal Thompson, Harpo Marx, Lillian Roth

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: September 6, 1930 | Passed

Starring: Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Hal Thompson, Harpo Marx, Lillian Roth, Louis Sorin, Margaret Dumont, Margaret Irving, The Marx Brothers, Zeppo Marx

Summary: Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

Director: Victor Heerman

Genre(s): Comedy, Musical

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 97 min

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Donald Liebenson

One of the five essential Paramount comedies. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Animal Crackers leaves the song-and-dance to Groucho in the great "Hooray For Captain Spaulding," sends Harpo running after screaming blondes in the background, and breaks down the fourth wall for a wry Eugene O'Neill parody. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The Marx Brothers' second film and one of their best, satirising the rich at play as they infiltrate a society party and beome involved with a stolen painting. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Exceedingly stagy and theatrical, even by 1930's standards, but is nevertheless very funny and highly enjoyable. Read full review

Josh Larsen

If your sense of humor leans heavily on wordplay and vaudevillian puns, you might even find the movie to be hilarious. Read full review

Mordaunt Hall

A further example of amusing nonsense. Read full review

Don Druker

This is second-level Marx Brothers, which means it's funny but not hysterical. Read full review

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