10/10 1st off, a gay joke in a Laurel & Hardy movie,,,,,???? Yep. Up front & center. A key ingredient to Laurel & Hardy 's on-going appeal ( in my opinion) is 1. Their all encompassing brotherhood, & fellowship for each other. It leaps across a 84 year span. A World War, Levittown, the Civil rights movement. Apalachin, The bay of Pig's, Vietnam, A Presidental Assassination, The War on Poverty, Exploration into space. Watergate, ( you catch the drift.) 2. The extemporaneous ( atleast seemingly) nature of their Comedy. The duo, do a legendary bit of theirs near the beginning of the film. A childish dance, that is just dandy, & illuminates, said friendship, & an era of delightful foolishness,(here) on the precipice of demise. Laurel, & Hardy's cheif source of amusement derives from sight-gags, & long, drawn-out segments that propell from Odd, to dumb, to over-the-top, to borderline insane. They formed as a team during the silent-era, & their funniest gag's instill remnants of that Silent ethic. They could come across as hopelessly anarchic, & dated especially considering the advancements in film technology by 1937, but, they come across as outside of History, & time, instead. ( You can enter a costume
party, anywhere in the World, even in 2021, dressed as Laurel, & Hardy, & not one person can seriously ask you just who are you impersonatng.) The jokes you can see coming a mile away, but they have such, precison, such immaculate timing, that they floor the viewer, regardless. ( I guess, you pretty much catch that I'm a gigantic Laurel, & Hardy fan. I can & will shill for these guy's until the cow's come home. I totally love them !!!!!!!) You have a good deal of the Classic Laurel, & Hardy Organization here, so although there's nothing, revelatory, or particularly ground breaking w/ this entry, it's good fun, & audaciously stoopid, & it really doesn't offend anyone, over anything. These guy's wore their hearts on their sleeves.