Bringing Up Baby (1938)'s comments - page 2

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krisflushednemo

Hilarious movie. One of my top 5 favorites.

13 years 5 months ago

Probably the most quintessential screwball comedy that hasn’t aged well. This is strictly for fans of that sub-genre and/or fans of Grant/Hepburn. I love the classics, but I’m clearly not a fan of those three combinations.

2 years 11 months ago

MetalMagnum

Wow, this movie has aged incredibly well. Hysterical from start to finish; love the Major Applegate character. Hepburn is horribly annoying, but her outfits are fantastic! The limits of the audience's suspension of disbelief are challenged in this film where nonsensical arguments and high jinks run amok. I can't say I cared for Cary Grant's character either, but there is some great acting in this film!

7 years 2 months ago

kongs_speech

I'm thrilled that the top two comments also disliked this film, because I'm not alone. I love screwball comedies. I love Howard Hawks. And yet, this was an endurance test for me. Brutally unpleasant.

3 years 1 month ago

Slylingual24

8 years 1 month ago

Dieguito

A soft romantic comedy, but worth watching. Classic performance of Grant.

12 years 2 months ago

Timec

roobin_22 - It's hilarious that you think it's hilarious that others would like a great movie.

12 years 7 months ago

frdirector

Indeed a hilarious movie! (Y)

12 years 11 months ago

mochiusle

That is totally hilarious!

13 years 5 months ago

elisa_n

One of my greatest cinematic disappointments. Incredibly annoying and just hard to watch overall.

5 years 2 months ago

eahuj

Did not even smile during the whole movie. Absolutely horrible and annoying in so many ways.

5 years 5 months ago

swhaze

This film was over schedule, over budget, and considered a flop when it was first released. Production was frequently delayed due to uncontrollable laughing fits between Hepburn and Grant. Hepburn struggled with her comedic performance and was coached by her co-star, vaudeville veteran Walter Catlett.

7 years 1 month ago

Zeltaebar

Hepburn is so annoying, I too want to punch her.

12 years 9 months ago

Siskoid

I knew going in that Bringing Up Baby was the screwball comedy to end all screwball comedies, but I didn't expect "Baby" to be a rowdy pet leopard. That's just a crazy cherry on top of a mad sundae. Katharine Hepburn is completely loopy in this, a fast-talking gal who mishears/sees everything, seems to make her thinking on a completely different track from the rest of us, and makes up stories about as easily as Bugs Bunny. I've heard it said people find her annoying, but I find it pretty amusing myself. She sets her sights on Cary Grant early on as a man she wants to marry - he's a paleontologist who is immensely frustrated by her mere presence, chaos to his dull order - and through a series of insane misunderstandings, some of them caused by leopards and dogs, I guess they'll just have to end up together. Pure lunacy from director Howard Hawks that was apparently before its time, full of verbal and physical comedy. I'm a bit sick of Cary Grant's annoyed persona at this point (he's always on the verge of hitting a woman in these things, which really doesn't play well), but Hepburn is completely unlike anything else I've seen her in, a mad and intoxicating free spirit.

5 years 8 months ago

johnnyg

Wow this was really quite great, all you naysayers had me worried. Hepburn was wonderful, despite giving birth to hundreds of lesser manic pixie dream girls.

12 years ago