Rating: 
Summary: Very mixed bag
Review: This set is a very mixed bag - it's really only for hardcore Marx Brothers fans, who have to have everything (given the shortage of Marx material on DVD). It's got some interesting stuff, like a disc full of trailers, and the pilot for You Bet your Life (in surprisingly good quality), which are the 2 items that I give it 2 stars for, but the bad points of this set are:
1) they could've fit all of this onto maybe 2 or 3 discs - each disc only runs around 50 min.
2) A/V quality on some of the material is poor
3) Menus may not work on some machines, on some discs (someone else complained about this). Hitting "Play" didn't work, but fortunately, my DVD player allows me to direct access titles/chapters on the disc, so i figured out how to make the disc play by bumping directly to the title/chapter on the disc (using trial and error). An enormous hassle, though.
4) if you buy this box, don't buy the separate "Inside" disc, as it's in there along with some footage making up some of the other discs - they clearly were stretching material
5) one whole disc is just audio - for this, i needed a DVD?The easy solution to this would be for Universal, Time Warner/WB, and all the other copyright holders to get on the ball and get the real movies out. I'd even settle for the latter/lesser ones, at this point. In the meantime, pop for "The Unknown Marx Brothers" - it's much better than this.
Rating:
Summary: For Marx Brothers Nerds Only
Review: This set is for fans who can't get enough Marx Brothers into their lives. The problem is, if you are such an avid fan you probably have most of this stuff somewhere in your collection anyway. The documentary disc is a very low budget version of the much better UNKNOWN MARX BRTOHERS. This one is comprised mostly of still pictures and clips from public domain movie trailers and interviews with people who knew people who knew the Brothers. Another disc is just Marx radio shows copied off of scratchy records with yet more still pictures. All of these shows are avaiable almost anywhere as remastered CDs. The Person to Person episodes with Groucho then another with Harpo are very poor quality kinescopes but they're pretty interesting just to see their homes and families. There's also a TV sit-com Pilot with Chico playing... Chico. It's typical early, flat 1950's TV fare. It's interesting to hardcore fans for a few minutes but that's about it. So, if you're a fan that has to have all that is Marx Brothers then you probably have all this stuff already because it's been floating around for a long time. If you're a fan that now has to have all that is Marx Brothers on DVD and you've got an extra thirty to throw away, then go for it.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't Buy This
Review: Wait until May, when a collection of the Marx Brothers five later films will be collected into a box set. If that is a success, we will likely get a set of their older, classic films, like Duck Soup. This a nothing more than a collection of bad radio spots abd routines--when you can get the darn things to work at all. True Marxists deserve better.
Rating:
Summary: Waste Of Money
Review: What a waste of money!!! I was expecting movies such as "day at the races" and "Duck Soup" but 5 DVD's consitsed of complied "bits and pieces". They even put "audio only radio excerpts". I am returning this crap!
Rating:
Summary: Misleading
Review: When one sees a box set saying it is a Marx Brothers Collection, you would expect it to BE A MARX BROTHERS COLLECTION. This is not a movie collection, but a collection of clips and uninteresting, unless you want personal information and other facts, DVD.
When I go to a site which states it has a certain collection, I think, an explanation should be included, if this is not a collection of movies.
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