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Bringing Up Baby

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Screwball Comedy at Its Best
Review: Hepburn and Grant are at the peak of their abilities in this classic -- a zany rich girl, a zoologist, a dinosaur, and a missing leopard. This is probabaly my favorite Hepburn movie (OK, maybe the Lion in Winter), and the dialogue is fast, witty, and intelligent. An excellent example of movie making at its best.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A young Hepburn and Grant Make For a Classic Comedy
Review: Very funny movie, Hepburn is very funny as is Cary Grant. The script is great with very funny and witty remarks through out the whole movie. Many sight gags to go along with this film. One of the first and best comedies. True acting was involved in this movie, no special effects just acting. Very good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the funniest and greatest films.
Review: This is a must see. It has a great storyline and is really funny. It's a real classic movie. They don't make them like this anymore. I highly recommend it to anyone. It's got great humor. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn are marvelous in it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classic Screwball
Review: Hepburn and and Grant at their screwball best. Outstanding supporting roles help make this a keeper. Pay attention cause the lines come fast a furious at times and you could miss some gems.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious from start to finish!
Review: This is the definitive screwball comedy. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn are in excellent comedic form in this sidesplitting comedy. This is a must have for all Cary Grant and/or Katharine Hepburn fans. Kate stars as a madcap heiress that unintentionally makes a complete mess of a zoologist's life. This is also a good film to buy if you are just discovering screwball comedies. This fast paced comedy is still as fresh as if it were made today! Go out and purchase your copy right away! If you like screwball comedies you might also want to try, "The Awful Truth" (1937) starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne and "My Man Godfrey" (1936) starring William Powell and Carole Lombard.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Mr. Eskimo Pie Gives this fourteen thumbs up
Review: I watched this on tv a day ago and I couldn't stop smiling. Classic movies are the greatest. Being 16 I did not think I'd like this but I liked it more than many other movies. Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant are greats of the art of acting. I say again: This is a must see for comedy fans. It's sex and language free so watch with everyone and your own baby leopard if you have one.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A light entertainment.
Review: I give this film only three stars based on the measure of a comedy: how much laughter it produces. This film induces some chuckles, but never gasping, roll on the floor laughter. Maybe it's a generational thing: I'm thirty-something. Cary Grant is a bit too prissy in his role for my taste, but Hepburn is great as a Lucille Ball-like walking disaster. The pacing is fast, and the film is never dull. Interestingly, this film bombed at the box office. It only picked up its reputation as a classic years later. Perhaps viewers were more discriminating back then.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Kate and Cary and Baby make a great comedy team
Review: There's something appealing about Ms. Hepburn -- the epitome of beauty, grace, and intelligence -- and Mr. Grant -- um, ditto -- falling down and acting like goons. Watch Kate simultaneously serenade a leopard on a roof while trying to convince a psychiatrist that she hasn't lost her marbles. And check Cary out, dressed in a negligée, making goofy faces at George the dog. Those are their individual moments to shine. When together, they are magic. It hardly matters at all that the plot of "Baby" is nonsensical and ridiculous. I think that's the point. What matters most is that Kate and Cary have picture perfect comedy timing together. I'll admit that I enjoyed this teaming (plus Mr. Stewart) more in "The Philadelphia Story", where the verbal wit was the main source for the comedy. But the running around like headless chickens here is less about social commentary, than about two idiots getting themselves in bizarre situations and ultimately falling in love.

The amazing thing to me, looking back on the film, is that most of the gags can be seen from miles away. When the leopard is locked in the stable, do you really think it will stay there for the remainder of the flick? When Kate laughs at Cary, having just fallen down a ridge himself, do you think she's long for standing on that perch? And the brontosaurus skeleton we meet in the opening scene, well, I think we all see where that one's going. Maybe it's a function of countless screwball comedies using this as a template over the last 60 odd years; the jokes have become cliched and overused. It's refreshing sometimes to go back to the source (or at least the best of the sources) to see where the jokes came from. And that they hold up.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Laughing through it
Review: I've watched this movie so many times that I could probably quote the whole movie for you. I love it, everytime I see it I laugh through it. Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant are extremely funny to see together. This is the ideal screwball comedy. I recommend it for anyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the greats
Review: What a movie this is. Laugh out loud funny. Cary Grant(one of my favorite actors) and Katherine Hepburn work together like magic. The chemistry is there and the laughs soon follow.

Charles Ruggles gives a very good supporting performance. He kept me laughing through the dinner scene. Other great scenes: the jail scenes, the routine with Hepburn's gown and Grant's top hat, the scene with Grant in the housecoat, any scene with George(what a name).

In short, this is one of the funniest movies of all time. ( The American Film Institue places it at 97 on the hundred best and around 19 on the hundred funniest.) Get it now!!


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