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Bringing Up Baby (1938) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Bringing Up Baby (1938) a score of 2.9617 out of 4
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Bringing Up Baby (1938) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for ToxicUniverse.com (Tony Pellum)ToxicUniverse.com (Tony Pellum)
Bringing Up Baby is the epitome of screwball comedy, not merely because of the fabulous acting and its humorous ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Tony Pellum)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Reel.comReel.com
Whatever happened to the screwball comedy? That 1930's-'40s genre of such glorious romps as Twentieth Century, My Man Godfrey, The Lady Eve, and Holiday (to name but a few) is something that seems to have gone the way of rotary phones, telegrams, and men' ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Reel.com
Bringing Up Baby (1938) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
Shy paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) is hoping for three things: a rare dinosaur bone fossil, a million dollar research grant, and his marriage to colleague Miss Swallow. Madcap heiress Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), instantly smitten with ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)
Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn were two fo Hollywood's leading stars for many reasons. The main one being their amazing ability to pull off both dramatic and comic roles. Thankfully, they made several films together, all different, yet each wonderful ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie GuideTV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
A delightful piece of utter absurdity and one of director Hawks' most inspired lampoons of the battle between the sexes. Hepburn and Grant are superb in this breathlessly funny screwball comedy with a plot that could have been hatched in a mental ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Bringing Up Baby (1938) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)
Fans of the Barbra Streisand classic What's Up, Doc? will be pleasantly surprised to see where many of that movies funny ideas originated. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Doug Pratt's Laserdisc ReviewDoug Pratt's Laserdisc Review
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star, with two leopards, a dog, and a gaggle of amusing supporting players. Howard Hawks directed. One of the primary reasons the movie works so brilliantly is that it is constantly changing directions. It takes the ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review
Bringing Up Baby (1938) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Oh sure, there have been some attempts in the last ten to twenty years, most notably two Madonna vehicles: "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) and "Who's That Girl?" (1987), the second of which is an awful, thinly disguised modern update of "Bringing Up ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
 
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Bringing Up Baby (1938) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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