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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- One of the five essential Paramount comedies.
- 83The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasAnimal 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.
- 80Time OutTime OutThe 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.
- 80The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelIt was a Broadway musical comedy, slightly adapted, and filmed in Astoria--and it looks stagey. But the film is too joyous for cavilling.
- 75LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenIf your sense of humor leans heavily on wordplay and vaudevillian puns, you might even find the movie to be hilarious.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineExceedingly stagy and theatrical, even by 1930's standards, but is nevertheless very funny and highly enjoyable.
- A further example of amusing nonsense.
- 60Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderThis is second-level Marx Brothers, which means it's funny but not hysterical.