KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

mark.waltz A tangled web is what Laurel and Hardy end up in when they try to deceive their wives while getting ready for a trip to Atlantic City to go to their lodge instead. Left alone (with Hardy pretending to be sick), the two wrestle over Oliver ending up in Laurel's boots, and their desperate attempts to get them off. Between a boot jack, a badly places tack, a Murphy bed and a floor level bathtub, the boys will get their share of abused especially when the wives come home. It's a plot device they tried several times with different scenarios, most famously in "Sons of the Desert", a feature. This one, in abbreviated mode, is practically just as good.

thejcowboy22 Excuses Excuses Stan and Ollie convince their wives that they can't go with them on a Vacation.They con-cocked a story of illness to stay behind.The whole short takes place in Ollie's abode complete with bathtub and boot jack remover.Pulling and tugging and trying to remove Ollie's tight boots that really belong to Stanley's feet. Hilarious for 5 minutes but the majority of the short focuses on the failure of the boot removal accompanied by that horrible background music which sounds like someone trying to defecate in a factory toilet.The only viewers who would be pleased would be the National Rifle Association when the wives come home with there shotgun in hands ready to fire!

bob the moo Laurel and Hardy and their wives are due to go away for a trip. However when Hardy's pals call him and tell him of a party in his honour he feigns illness and sends them on ahead of him and Laurel. But making excuses to his wife and getting away with it is only the start of the problem when it comes to actually getting ready to go out.In what seems to be more an exercise in patience rather than a short film, the duo go through the motions in a film that doesn't do them justice when viewed along with other shorts. The plot's high point is a sequence where Hardy tries to get Laurel's boot (which he has mistaken for his own) first onto his foot and then, realising his mistake, off his foot. This is the guts of the film and is easily the funniest bit – but it isn't very good. It goes on too long and, save the great work in delivery, isn't funny enough to carry the film in the way it is expected to.The duo try hard and both Laurel and Hardy do their well known thing to the best of their abilities but the material and the gags simply let them down. As real troopers they do their best and they are still worth watching the short for (I can't help but love Hardy's looks!) but they are not well served. The support cast (the wives) are good despite having little of consequence to do – it is nice to see Laurel and Hardy given wives who look pretty as opposed to battleaxe types (or themselves!)Overall I feel that Laurel and Hardy are always worth watching, but this would be a poor place to start. A short film that goes through the motions with no really good gags or high points.

The_Movie_Cat Not the finest moment for the duo, particularly on a technical level. The direction and editing are all over the place (often using long shots for reactions) and even in the newly restored version the sound quality is muddy.Basic plot seems to read as a try-out for Sons of the Desert, with Stan and Ollie duping their wives so they can go to a stag party. Though in the case of this short they never quite make it there. Most of the slapstick sequences feel oddly laboured and contrived (Ollie at one point taking over twelve minutes trying to get a boot off), not least because they're all backed up by an overstated musical score.I've got a new theory: the funniness of Laurel and Hardy is directly proportional to the length of Stan's hair. In the amusing Chickens Come Home-, made the same year, he sports a large quiff, yet here it's just medium length and not as extreme.Not awful, but Be Big! feels more like a formula filler rather than any great step forward in their career.