Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Hitchcoc What a great movie. Oliver plays the henpecked husband (the wives are always gun toting, nasty women) who goes to buy his wife an anniversary present. In the newspaper he sees a story of a U.S. Soldier who stayed at his post for twenty years after Armistice. No one told him the war was over. Ollie recognizes him immediately and goes to see him at the soldiers home. He decides to bring him home and his wife goes ballistic, leaving the two of them to destroy the place. There are some of the funniest scenes ever in this movie which also features Billy Gilbert as a jealous husband big game hunter who has a pretty wife. As the world comes crashing down around them for about the fiftieth time, things couldn't get worse--or could they? Excellent plot and wonderful execution by these gems of the cinema.

classicsoncall Lots of funny bits comprise this Laurel and Hardy feature, many of which could conceivably have been reworked into individual shorts. The story finds Stan discovered while still manning his sentry post from the first World War, but twenty years later! Subsequently, Ollie looks him up at the Old Soldiers Home and from there it's one disaster after another. I've always differentiated Laurel and Hardy from other comedy teams like Abbott and Costello in the sense that they do things funny rather than simply doing funny things. Although there are a fair share of funny things happening in this flick as well, with able assists from the likes of Billy Gilbert, James Finlayson and even former Our Gang bully, Tommy Bond. Stan's smoking pipe bit always manages to crack me up and the topper this time has him brushing the ashes out of his hand when he's done smoking. Minna Gombel is on hand as Ollie's less than understanding wife, but on the other hand, what's to understand? Rounding out the main cast is Patricia Ellis as Mrs. Gilbert, who's quite pretty while doling out her own share of laughs with the covered chair gimmick. A very funny treat for fans of the comedy duo that would please just about anyone.

Tim Kidner Block-Heads remains one of my - and many other lovers of Laurel & Hardy's favourites, from the outset with the oh, so memorable Stanley firing at an aircraft and guarding a sentry post, twenty years after the war had ended. The huge pile of empty baked bean tins that has been amassed over that period is an unforgettable sight!After he is rescued and recuperating at an old soldier's Home, Ollie reads about his front-line pal, with whom he had fought alongside, in the newspaper. Off he goes to visit Stan in his almost brand new car. The intention is take him back home to enjoy a meal that Mrs Hardy has cooked.Of course, nothing goes to plan and here the stunts are just a bit better than usual, undertaken with even more gusto and for its 50 minute runtime, is one of their most consistently inventive, entertaining and funny features.

jraskin-1 I just watched Block-Heads as part of the newly-released "Essentials" DVD collection, and thought it was very enjoyable. Although it was one of the boys later efforts for Hal Roach, the energy and slapstick were still to be seen in full force. I have scanned the user reviews for Block-Heads on IMDb, and did not see any reference to something that I believe slipped by the censors, and obviously most viewers. I was a bit startled to notice that at the 54:50 mark of the film, as Mrs. Hardy slams the non-working phone down, she seems to utter the s-word! Check it out, and see if you hear what I hear. This curse word seems to be quite audible, more so than Edgar Kennedy's s-word slip in "Perfect Day." Minna Gombell, playing Mrs. Hardy, had obviously worked herself up into such a state of agitation, that this word just seemed to slip out, and strangely, no one seemed to notice!