Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

MisterWhiplash Love Happy is the final movie that features the three Marx brothers (Groucho Chico Harpo) in top billing and as the stars. Once again they do the occasional musical performances. This time Frank Tashlin co-writes the script (bringing, I'd imagine, some pure cartoonish brilliance to it, in fits and starts). And it's OK... ish. Actually Harpo is better than OK, but when isn't he? This isn't even his premier work and he's delightful to watch in scenes that should be rote like when the actress asks Harpo to be his manager and he mimes becoming a "big shot" with his feet up on a can of rubbish in a park, miming as well being on the phone with many agents. It's what he was made for as a performer, moments like this.The main problem for me is a major lack of the brothers interacting with one another - Groucho barely appears in the first half for Pete's sake, and only through limited 4th wall breaks - yet there are a lot of legitimately entertaining musical numbers (really, there isn't a dull one, including a number where a woman sings about being frustrated with motherhood). There's once again another loony but half-baked crime plot, here involving stolen diamonds in a can of... sardines I think, Chico on piano, and a musical that is on thin ice as far as being produced. Objectively this isn't as good a movie as I'm rating it, but I'm being generous because when these guys do click in their scenes they are just that funny. In other words it's better than Room Service (oddly enough this has the storyline that it's closest to), but not by much.It's also uncanny seeing Groucho without his grease-paint mustache as a movie character with the brothers.

The_Movie_Cat Taken as the final Marx Brothers movie, then Love Happy can't help but disappoint. But the enjoyment contained in this pleasant diversion of a film is perhaps directly proportionate to how you approach it. Really the film, based on a story by Harpo, is a solo Harpo Marx vehicle, and the first one in which his character shares the same moniker as his stage name since Monkey Business. I've reviewed three Marx Brothers movies on the IMDb over the last decade or so, and in some of them I've been pretty mean about Harpo's character. As a relative Marx Brothers novice (though, as said, I've still been watching them for around a dozen years now) maybe it took me a while to get used to him, or maybe he really is just more likable in this one? Certainly his affectations around women seem more genuinely innocent and charming than the would-be sex pest of the earlier vehicles. Though this is, of course, the whole point: the Harpo Marx in this film isn't really the uncontrollable force of nature from earlier ventures, but a more passive and selfless man played by an actor now in his sixties. You're no longer watching THE Harpo, but A Harpo. One inconsolable issue I've always had with the character is that the inner beauty he allows us to see during his harp solos isn't reflected in the regular persona. So the sweet and gentle look in Harpo's eyes comes from a different place to the guy causing violent mayhem or female harassment. By the time of Love Happy, both sides of the character finally meet in the middle, as Harpo begins to embrace the kind of naked sentimentality so beloved of Chaplin, particularly towards the end of his career. (And as Harpo ages, he begins to bear more than a passing resemblance to Chaplin, particularly as Charlie played other characters with his own white hair during the 50s).So, if we can take this film on its own terms, and lower expectations accordingly, it becomes more palatable. Then we factor in that it has a minor role for Chico. The brothers had previously come out of a five- year retirement for A Night In Casablanca (6) reputedly to help clear Chico's gambling debts. Chico doesn't get away with this scott free, as in Casablanca and this movie he's forced to take parts in scenes that involve him gambling. Love Happy even has him losing, with a "There goes my coat". And in an age of product placement, then the mark of the financial backers is even sent up, with Harpo amusingly using most of the advertising billboards during the climax as makeshift fairground rides.With all this in mind, it's a likable enough movie that features the final film performance of Harpo Marx, with a guest appearance from his brother. Except, by this stage, the financial backers want the obvious and Groucho is also drafted in. Yet Groucho isn't properly integrated into the narrative, and just does introductory monologues/voice-overs and gets to share hardly any screen time with his brothers at all, not even being seen on screen with Chico even though they're supposed to be in the same scene. Even worse, Groucho couldn't make his disinterest any clearer if he'd tried. While he appeared reinvigorated for Casablanca - for my money, better than any film they took part in since A Day At The Races – here he's just there to help out his brothers, a deeply bored man sans greasepaint, more interested in his TV quiz show than this "not really a Marx Brothers" movie.Certainly even less of a Marx Brothers movie is an endeavour they all did eight years later – Irwin Allen's The Story of Mankind (5), featuring all three brothers playing minor roles in vignettes where they do not meet. A film that looks part epic (thanks to reused stock footage), part cheap episode of Star Trek, it has some amusing moments for a once-again-trying Groucho, a "blink and you'll miss it" secondary part for Chico and two minutes of Harpo as Isaac Newton. The only time they were shot in colour – in this case the lovably dated and garish Technicolor – you finally get to see them in their splendour, although Groucho once again appears without his make-up, and all three are pushing seventy. It's by no means a great film, and by no means a Marx Brothers movie, though it's probably better than its reputation, even if only by default.So for the final three Marx Brothers pictures after their return from retirement, we're left with the unsettling prospect that only one of them can genuinely be regarded as a Marx Brothers movie. Love Happy, then. It's a terrible Marx Brothers movie. But as a movie in its own right, it's really quite charming.

gridoon2018 "Love Happy", the last official Marx Brothers film (unless you want to count "The Story Of Mankind"), is also usually listed as their worst, but I'm not sure I can agree with this evaluation. There are numerous problems with it, to be sure: Groucho only appears about 4 times in total; Chico overdoes his Italian accent more than ever before, but his only truly funny scene is the pantomime game with Harpo; the piano and harp interludes are dull; the chase climax is weak. And yet, there are lots of things to like in "Love Happy" as well: Harpo is joyful, expressive, tireless and sometimes even touching (the scene where they "search" him for the diamonds is hilarious); during his limited appearances, Groucho throws out all the funniest lines in the film (my favorite comes at the very start: "The FBI was baffled, the Scotland Yard was baffled. They sent for me, and the case was solved immediately: I confessed!"); Ilona Massey milks the icy-hot bad girl role for all it's worth; the supporting cast is filled with lovely, leggy ladies; the musical numbers, although not exactly necessary, are quite entertaining in their own right; and let's face it, if you're a fan, every film the Marx Bros. made is worthy of a spot in your DVD collection. Beware of the hype for the Marilyn appearance, though, it is literally a few seconds long. **1/2 out of 4.

ingemar-4 Although this movie is not one of the real Marx Brothers classics, it is a must-see for the fans of the biggest humor icons of all time.Harpo is the main character, and he is also the most amusing brother. There are plenty of good Harpo gags, and the chase at the end is quite good.Groucho appears without make-up, which may seem strange, but that is a natural choice since he had become a superstar in TV. Face it, Groucho was at the very top of his career here, and had mostly left the movies behind him. We see so little of him that it is quite obvious that he was a "guest star". "The odds were a thousand to one that I wouldn't make it, but here I was, back on the trail" - isn't that Groucho commenting his own participation?The only brother that really disappointed me was Chico. Either I didn't get his jokes or there weren't any. Pity, since Chico's "foreign man" character was always very funny. His acting is quite OK, he does his character, but he isn't funny... until he does his obligatory piano act (this time with a fiddler landlord).The plot is simple, and is carried pretty well by some quite slimy bad guys - especially the leading bad woman (Ilona Massey). Perfectly fine for a comedy plot.The total impression is somewhat lowered by a confused and even badly cut ending. Well, at least Groucho got the last word, but I guess his participation was an afterthought, so they wrote him into the ending too quickly.It doesn't stand out as one of the better Marx movies, definitely not the one to see first (as one writer had), but it is not without fun moments. While Chico is weak and Groucho too brief, Harpo is just great. Low-budget, but a must see at least for us who have seen all the classics, and anyone who likes Harpo.