Monkey Business [1931] (DVD)

Monkey Business is a classic 1931 Marx Brothers film directed by Norman McLeod. The film incorporates some routines from the Marx Brothers vaudeville show Home Again and was partly inspired by Bert Granet's idea for a comedy spoof to be called The Seas Are Wet featuring Marxian capers onboard a cruise ship. Monkey Business is the third of the Marx Brothers cinematic adventures and arguably the fastest, most anarchic, rambunctious and entertaining they ever made. The film refreshingly eschews too much unnecessary plot and simply presents the Marx Brothers as stowaways on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic, creating havoc as they attempt to evade detection and have some ...  Read the complete review