CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

mark.waltz Laurel and Hardy spend the first half of this film trying to get Laurel from under the watchful eye of his shrewish wife (the beautiful Anita Garvin who perfects the sour disposition of her character) who has forbidden him to leave for the night, but pretending to accept his excuse for an emergency when he does. The second half of the film surrounds her revenge when they succeed, which isn't pretty. Violent but often hysterically funny, this near three reeler shows how the woman who wears the pants in a rather dysfunctional family can get even with lying husbands. It's one of several of their films (shorts or features) which shows the woman in an unfavorable light, but in this age of pre-code comedy, it was all in fun. This has a cartoonish feel to it with the funny but one dimensional wife really stealing the show with her vampish look but evil demeanor. The ending gag doesn't really give a conclusion, but it is a classic.

bkoganbing Until I watched Blotto last night I never knew how much homage was paid to Laurel and Hardy by Jackie Gleason in one of the classic Honeymooner episodes.It's the one where Ralph invites Ed over to enjoy a bottle of wine and Alice fearing the consequences empties the wine bottle and puts grape juice in it. The two of them as Ollie would have put it, none the wiser, polish off the 'wine' and get themselves drunk on the mere power of suggestion.It's prohibition time and the unmarried Mr. Hardy wants to go to a bring your own booze type club where they give you the set up if you bring the illegal liquor. But Stan's wife, Anita Garvin, keeps her husband on a very short leash.That doesn't stop our clever duo who turn out not to be so clever. Anita allows them to go to the club, but spikes the bottle with cold tea. Best scene in this short was a lachrymose tenor singing The Curse of An Aching Heart to Ollie and Stan crying in their tea.Besides Stan and Ollie in front of the camera, Hal Roach managed to get the talents of two future Academy Award directors behind the camera. Leo McCarey co-wrote the script and George Stevens was the cinematographer. Stan and Ollie's humor is not like that of the wisecracking Marx Brothers, nor is it finely honed burlesque routines. It depends far more on the characters created. So don't look for any clever lines here. Just look for a pair of lovable screw-ups who keep proving again and again about how smart they're not.

MartinHafer The basic plot of this Laurel and Hardy short has been seen in movies and especially TV by other comedians. I remember a HONEYMOONERS episode that "liberally borrowed" from this short and I recall a few other shows that also reproduced the main idea. I assume that even before Laurel and Hardy, there probably were other comedy shorts with the same plot as well! Stan is a very henpecked husband. He wants to sneak out to "play", but his wife is keeping a close eye on him. Ollie calls and convinces Stan to lie to his wife so they can both sneak off to a night club. Stan tells Ollie his wife has been hiding a bottle of liquor (since it is Prohibition) and he'll smuggle it out of the house. However, the wife is quite nosy and overhears the plan, so she substitutes cold tea in the bottle.What follows is a not particularly surprising segment where Stan and Ollie think they are getting drunk, so they start to behave very obnoxiously at the night club. In the meantime, the wife arrives with a brand new gun she purchased to shoot her husband for lying to her(that seems awfully extreme and ridiculous, I know). However, despite this being a completely stupid plot element, the final scene where she shoots at the pair is still a great sight gag.A very familiar theme that was executed very, very well with the usual Laurel and Hardy style and grace.

Boba_Fett1138 There is little story present and the movie can mainly be split into two separate parts. The first part of the story is about Stan, who tries to sneak out of the house from his wife, to meet up with Ollie to go and have a good time in 'Rainbow club'. The second part of the movie is about Stan and Ollie, who get 'drunk' in the 'Rainbow club'. The second part of the movie is more filled with some typical good slapstick humor and hardly any words are spoken in those sequences. It's in my opinion the best part of the movie and the timing and comedy-acting is top-class!The movie has more than enough laughs in it to make "Blotto" an entertainingly watchable comical movie with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Especially the slapstick moments make this movie a fun one to watch and are good for some serious laughs.Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel are good as always and once more show the wonderful chemistry the both of them had together. Also Anita Garvin is wonderful in the role of Mrs. Laurel.The movie also provides a pretty good view on '30's nightlife, when the two enter the 'Rainbow club'.Perfectly watchable when you want to have a good and fun 26 minutes.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/