Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

richard-1787 This movie was very much a disappointment to me.I very much like Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Rosalind Russell. And Michael Curtiz has directed some of my favorite movies, such as Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk. But despite all that talent, this movie just doesn't work for me.I place the blame on the script, which is really weak. Flynn's character is often incomprehensible - whom does he love, and why? - and not particularly likable, though Flynn exerts all of his very considerable charm. As a result, we're not really rooting for him, or even sure which way he wants to go. Russell is great - shades of her performance as a newspaper woman in His Girl Friday - but she doesn't get the great lines that movie provided her. Things move along briskly, but we don't always care.This movie leaves no lasting impression, which is a shame, because it shows that Flynn could have made some great comedies, had he but been given the right script.

Richard Burin Four's a Crowd (Michael Curtiz, 1938) is a really fun screwball comedy that pits a newspaper reporter against millionaire Walter Connolly and his daughter, a la It Happened One Night and Libeled Lady. The first 15 minutes are blisteringly funny. Journo Rosalind Russell schemes to get editor-turned-PR-man Errol Flynn to return to his ailing paper, which the managing director (Patric Knowles) is trying to close down. Flynn agrees, and wages war against Connolly, hoping to turn him into the most-hated man in America, so he can repair his reputation via a publicity campaign. After that, the plotting goes a bit awry, spending quite a bit of time in Connolly's country mansion, where Flynn ends up trying to steal butter whilst mollifying heiress De Havilland and being chased by dogs. Well, I said it went a bit awry. Still, while the screenplay hops from one situation to the next without stopping to consider its internal logic, it moves so fast and so funnily you'll probably be swept along. Flynn and Russell are both near peak form, and they make a delightful team.

Shane Crilly OK! This is not the great hidden screwball masterpiece. The screwy cleverness is pretty obvious, but it's still funny. The story is adequate enough to keep the laughs coming with the right cast. I won't bother too much with the details because you'll get the idea pretty quickly. This is the right cast however and they keep the laughs coming.For me the highlights are the scenes with Errol Flynn and Rosalind Russell. Russell has always been great as a comedienne and she delivers here as well, but Flynn is a revelation. Like Frank Morgan and Walter Pidgeon before him, he is the guy who not only can, but will, sell refrigerators to the Eskimos. When he turns the charm on Russell it's like being with that cousin who got you into network marketing.The final act gets the ensemble (de Havilland,Flynn, Knowles and Russell) colliding together like bumper cars with Justice of the Peace, Hugh Herbert misdirecting traffic. He may have delivered the ultimate screwball line ever with "Children, please don't fight! There'll be time for that after you're married." Realistically, it's obvious why the suits would not let Flynn take this direction, he was the king of swashbucklers and this would have weakened the brand. However, this movie shows what he could have been. As a screwball lead he had charm, athleticism, comic timing, sexy looks and a great voice, but so did Grant, Barrymore and Cooper and others and they were kind enough to leave the pirate market to him. A loss but I'll console myself with another hundred views of Captain Blood.

RamblerReb I just saw this movie last night for the first time and taped it off of TCM as part of the Errol Flynn festival for April, and am I glad I did! Flynn is hilarious as the lovable cad he was born to play, and almost every gag line he has works with his flawless delivery and perfect timing. Flynn also turns out, not surprisingly when one thinks about it, to be a physical comedian on par with (I sh*t you not) Cary Grant. Another commenter notes that de Havilland's role was wasted on her, and I agree, but she still turns in a great performance. I would probably have cast Jean Arthur or even Claudette Colbert (anything to see her in a slinky silk slip again!) in the role, but Olivia has the chops, no doubt. Some folks might not have cared for all the phone conversations, but one in particular (here be spoilers) when Flynn has to make two dates for the same night without them overlapping is hysterical. Also, Flynn's ingenious use of the household butter supply brings forth the chortles.If only the black shoe bastards had let Flynn do what he wanted and make more of these screwball comedies! What a treasure trove they would be!