Best movie of this year hands down!

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Avid movie goer that I am, I somehow got to the ripe old age of 39 without being exposed to Laurel and Hardy. My wife and I decided to rectify that by getting one of their collections through Netflix, and a disc with this film and the last one the duo did together, "Utopia," was the first to arrive. Expectations were high for "The Flying Deuces" and I was sure I was going to find the two hilarious.....And then I watched the movie and could barely keep my eyes open. What a woefully unfunny movie "The Flying Deuces" is, and if it's representative of Laurel & Hardy (which I've heard it's not), there's not much chance of me liking their other stuff. I want to see some of their earlier films, especially the silents, as I gather that's where I'll find their strongest collaborations, but even at that I'm not sure I'm ever going to like them as much as I like other comedians from the same era, like Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. I just don't care for the personas Laurel and Hardy play, or the mean spiritedness that colors all of Hardy's interactions with Laurel. Hardy doesn't make me root for him, which is essential in these slapstick comedians for their schtick to work. And the brand of humor doesn't appeal to me either. A typical joke in "The Flying Deuces" goes something like this: Laurel bumps his head multiple times on the slanted roof of their Parisian boarding room, Hardy says something like "How can you be stupid enough to keep bumping your head like that?" and then a couple of minutes later Hardy...guess what?...bumps his head on the same ceiling. Hardy har har.I'm willing to give the boys another chance, but my expectations are now set much lower.Grade: D

The story is based on a joke popular in that era-Oliver joins the French Foreign Legion to forget a girl he had fallen in love with but couldn't have (because she is married). He and Stan join the Legion, do some bumbling, and then learn that being in the French Foreign Legion doesn't pay much, so they elect to leave. Unfortunately they find they cannot, and are tried for desertion and sentenced to death. They try to fly away in a stolen airplane, though neither actually know how to pilot said plane.There are good bits-where Stan plays a set of bedsprings like a harp, and where they make their escape from confinement. But many of the other gags are hardly funny. Laurel and Hardy may have been the original "fat and thin man" comedy duo, but Art Carney and Jackie Gleason did a far better job.

Have loved this movie since I was a kid. Many situational comedy bits as L&H were used to from the silent days. There is a lot of slapstick involved in this movie but when it was filmed sound was now involved which sometimes made it more fun. Have the movie both on DVD and 8mm film and is still funny on both formats. Was the first L&H film I ever watched and stands up as one of the best early comedies on B&W film. Not their finest but definitely worth watching and a great example of early comedy films.Am a film collector and have been wanting to watch this film from film since I was a kid, thankfully the film community provided me with an 8mm copy of the film with sound complete. Wonderful to watch on the big screen. It's worth watching and showing to the younger generations so they don't think Jim Carry is a comedy icon.

I don't understand why L&H movie "The Big Noise" is rated so low, and I don't understand why this one is rated so high. It only has three or four funny moments in it and has possibly the dumbest (and worst) endings of any Laurel and Hardy movie. Even Atoll-K has a better ending! The "harp" scene is funny as well as Hardy in the bedroom. The suicide scene and the soft shoe are also amusing, but between those four scenes there's about twenty minutes of material. This would have been better as a twenty five minute shot about them. Of the Hal Roach movies, I would probably rate this one towards the bottom of the list.5 out of 10