Groucho Marx is a little older and a tad slower in "Copacabana", but many of his one-liners still score, and he made me laugh out loud more times than I can remember. Carmen Miranda manages to keep up with him every step of the way, and she is also funny and entertaining. There is a little too much of the sugary-sweet Andy Russell and Gloria Jean (don't get me wrong, Jean is quite lovely, but her overextended fantasy / musical number somewhere in the middle definitely slows the movie down a lot), and maybe not enough of the real Copa Girls themselves, who are simply wonderful: beautiful, radiant and personable. But my absolute favorite moment in this film is a very small one, where Groucho and his then-wife (playing the "Cigarette Girl") exchange eyebrow raises! On the whole, "Copacabana" is about on the level of a lesser Marx Brothers movie (like "Go West" or "The Big Store"), and certainly preferable to their worst one, which is probably "Room Service". **1/2 out of 4.
Review of Copacabana
