A great continuation of the Marx Brothers style comedy of fast paced witty dialogue mixed with physical slapstick gags. This film isn't as memorable as Duck Soup, I would argue it's more of a vessel for their antics and gags rather than a complete story but it works just as well to make you laugh. This film was considered to be more successful than Duck Soup because of Thalberg’s hand in creating a love interest, which although it was present in Duck Soup was not as clearly a romantic B Plot as in this film. And it's becoming more and more apparent that America is in lov with love. That there is a growing appetite for love stories during the depression. I would also argue this film has more of a structure to it than the more free flowing Duck soup. Americans came to expect something from their movies in terms of film language, audiences were starting to become well-read in that regard and so they wanted more structure, more three act plots that were tied up neatly and made according to the rules of established film convention.
This movie is notable for one of the funniest gags of all time, the stateroom scene where The Marx Brothers and ancillary characters become crammed into a tiny room one upon the other in a rotating sequence that requires yet another person and yet another person to stack up ontop of each other inside the tiny room. It's the advent of "clown-caring" basically stacking as many people as you can into a tiny space for the comedic effect of seeing everyone squished together.
