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Summary: An outrageously original and sensationally surreal comedy!
Review: The classic 1942 comedy "Road to Moroco", the 3rd in the "Road" series, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. This is my favourite- great songs and zany comedy. Decades before Monty Python, the top-of-their-tree talents combined here created an outrageously original and sensationally surreal comedy! Crosby and Hope were two of the biggest box-office draws at the time, and they enjoy themselves immensely in "Morocco", with in-jokes aplenty (they even make fun of the Road series itself!) and double-and-triple crosses in abundance, as they try to get themselves out of trouble and into romance, Bing the smooth, crooning charmer and Bob the cowardly (but loveable) wanna-be. Dottie is beautiful as ever, as are the sets and the support cast includes a menacing Anthony Quinn. The Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Huesen score includes "Road to Morocco" (Bob and Bing on a camel- "Where we're goin', why we're goin', how can we be sure? I'll lay you eight-to-five that we meet Dorothy Lamour!"); "Ho Hum" and "Moonlight Becomes You" (a classic Bing number, which he solos and reprises with Hope and Lamour). They don't make 'em like this anymore!
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Summary: Light-hearted, Dim-witted Fun
Review: This film offers a bizarre opportunity to see unsophisticated humor of an innocent age meld with cutting-edge postmodernism. Crosby and Hope demonstrate that postmodernism has its roots in vaudevillian comedy! Film has plenty of what postmodernists love to call the self reflexive: mugging at camera, inside jokes, and unabashed self parody. In other words, if you appreciate the humor of The Simpsons, you will probably laugh a lot during the Road to Morocco. Silly jokes and gags come often enough that pace never lags, levity never lets up. Now that the world's roads are easier for the rest of us clowns to travel, the film does reveal America's ignorance and insularity that is hopefully becoming a thing of the past. But the silly jokes and physical comedy stand the test of time. Bonus appearance by a rather handsome young Anthony Quinn as desert chieftain / rival for the affections of Dorothy Lamour.
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Summary: The best Road Movie
Review: This is Bing and Bob's finest and funniest road picture by a wide margin. Their interplay and chemistry together is shown to its best advantage here. Bing's two songs, "Moonlight Becomes You" and "Just Found a Hole in My Shoe" are catchy and wonderfully sung. Bob Hope is, as always, absolutely hilarious. His comedic timing is seriously under-rated. It's no wonder Woody Allen thinks he's the greatest movie comedian in history. There are a number of inside jokes in this movie, and younger viewers will not understand the references to Bob's Pepsodent radio show, Bing's lousy horses and the Kraft Music Hall. But it's fast-paced, genuinely funny and a blast from first to last.
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Summary: The best Road Movie
Review: This is Bing and Bob's finest and funniest road picture by a wide margin. Their interplay and chemistry together is shown to its best advantage here. Bing's two songs, "Moonlight Becomes You" and "Just Found a Hole in My Shoe" are catchy and wonderfully sung. Bob Hope is, as always, absolutely hilarious. His comedic timing is seriously under-rated. It's no wonder Woody Allen thinks he's the greatest movie comedian in history. There are a number of inside jokes in this movie, and younger viewers will not understand the references to Bob's Pepsodent radio show, Bing's lousy horses and the Kraft Music Hall. But it's fast-paced, genuinely funny and a blast from first to last.
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Summary: this is a good movie
Review: This is [not good]. All the women are white. The heroes are racists, sexists & ableists. The scenes where Bing is beating the [snot] out of Dotty were cut out. I loved this movie. Bob's ending was great. If these guys could have cussed, this would have been the most tasteless slop ever slopped together. This is horrible. Bob & Bing rip.
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Summary: ambivalent? polarization of opinion?
Review: This is [not good]. All the women are white. The heroes are racists, sexists & ableists. The scenes where Bing is beating the [snot] out of Dotty were cut out. I loved this movie. Bob's ending was great. If these guys could have cussed, this would have been the most tasteless slop ever slopped together. This is horrible. Bob & Bing rip.
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Summary: "Overwrought intellectual analysis" notwithstanding
Review: This movie is brilliantly quick-witted fun and is thoroughly unpretentious. It's about as serious as a jelly bean and only a fatuous, pseudo-intellectual would use a review of it as an opportunity to spout post-modernist drivel such as interpreting the audience inclusive familiarity in which the movie undeniably and hilariously indulges as an example of that sorry philosophy. Then again, though this movie would have to be warped to illustrate the point, there may be some validity to the claim "postmodernism has its roots in vaudevillian comedy", because there is no doubt that from its foundation up post-modernism is a joke. Nonetheless, to those of you who haven't seen this film, please don't let the backhanded compliments of some keep you from enjoying this wonderful movie. It is what it is - irreverent, joyful goofiness - and it will hopefully outlive the largely bankrupt ideas which have currency among contemporary Western intelligentsia.
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Summary: "Overwrought intellectual analysis" notwithstanding
Review: This movie is brilliantly quick-witted fun and is thoroughly unpretentious. It's about as serious as a jelly bean and only a fatuous, pseudo-intellectual would use a review of it as an opportunity to spout post-modernist drivel such as interpreting the audience inclusive familiarity in which the movie undeniably and hilariously indulges as an example of that sorry philosophy. Then again, though this movie would have to be warped to illustrate the point, there may be some validity to the claim "postmodernism has its roots in vaudevillian comedy", because there is no doubt that from its foundation up post-modernism is a joke. Nonetheless, to those of you who haven't seen this film, please don't let the backhanded compliments of some keep you from enjoying this wonderful movie. It is what it is - irreverent, joyful goofiness - and it will hopefully outlive the largely bankrupt ideas which have currency among contemporary Western intelligentsia.
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Summary: They're Off on the road to Morocco!
Review: This movie is really great. Bob, Bing, And Dorothy are, once again, in a strange world. This time it is a world of wealthy sheiks, desert princesses, and men who will buy a guys pal so you can pay for lunch. (The guy being Bing and the pal being Bob). After selling Bob, Bing's conscience gets the better of him, and he sets of in search of his friend. He recieves a note from the missing party telling how he is being horribly tortured. This hardens bob's resolution. Imagine his shock when he finds out the Bob is being treated like a king, and he is going to marry the beautiful Princess(Dorothy Lamour). The rest is history. It's full of chases, inside jokes, ad-libs, and a hilarious song where the boys and a mirage of Dorothy sing 'Moonlight becomes you' in each other's voices. My favorite song was 'Road to Morocco', And the scene where Bob becomes a "Full-fledged american idiot" Is priceless.A teriffic movie.
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Summary: What a funny movie!!!
Review: This movie was great! I can watch it a million times and still laugh over the jokes. Bob Hope is hilarious. Especially the end! Buy this movie today!!!!
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