GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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.

pastry0512 I second an earlier poster who wishes "Blotto" was available here in the U.S. I've been longing to see this movie for years because I understand there's a scene where the boys smash hundreds of pieces of glassware. Oddly enough this type of glass, known as Ruba Rombic and made by the now-defunct Consolidated Glass Co. in Penna., is highly collectible and worth a fortune these days. It was pretty avant garde in its day, borrowing its design from cubism.Anyway, if someone knows where to obtain "Blotto" on VHS, please post. It is a testament to the comic skills of Laurel and Hardy that they can make almost any story or situation, no matter how slight, really funny.

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.

Theo Robertson Oliver and Stan steal a bottle of booze from Stan`s wife and depart to a speak easy .There that`s the plot . No seriously that`s the entire plot and it should have been awful but I spent most of the film with an amused grin on my face because it`s a show case for the infectious mirth making slapstick of the greatest comedy duo who ever lived or will ever live . There`s no reason why anyone should laugh at Stan passing a bottle to Oliver , or Stan putting an ice bucket on his head but I laughed out loud . Imagine if Jim Carrey and Chris Rock made a film where they bought some crack and decided to smoke it at an illegal drugs den ? It`s with a premise like that you really do appreciate the talents of Laurel and Hardy