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Bringing Up Baby (1938) Rank 5 Reviews
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DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
There are some folks who consider 1938's "Bringing Up Baby" one of the best comedies ever made. I have no objection. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
Decent Films - faith on film (Steven D. Greydanus)
The zaniest, most delightful, most romantic screwball comedy of them all, Bringing Up Baby features Katherine Hepburn at her effervescent best and Cary Grant in a marvelous performance combining stuffiness and injured dignity with his usual debonair charm ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Decent Films - faith on film (Steven D. Greydanus)
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)
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Comedian Harold Lloyd called this the most perfectly constructed comedy he'd ever seen, and he was right. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
DVD Verdict (Diane Wild)
Bringing Up Baby is a sublime convergence of greatness: Two of the best actors, teaming with one of the best directors, in one of the most entertaining scripts of one of the greatest eras of Hollywood cinema. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at DVD Verdict (Diane Wild)
TV 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
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)
homevideo.about.com (Ivana Redwine)
Just thinking about this film has brought me many a chuckle. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at homevideo.about.com (Ivana Redwine)
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)
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)
Doug 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
DVD Times
If there is a list of essential American comedy films then Bringing Up Baby would be an inevitable part of it. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at DVD Times
BoxOfficeCritic.com (Eileen Peterman)
Unfortunately Hollywood doesn't seem to be able to make this sort of comedy much anymore. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at BoxOfficeCritic.com (Eileen Peterman)
Reel.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
Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)
It's one of the fastest moving comedies ever made, and there are plenty of memorable moments. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)
digitallyOBSESSED.com (Jon Danziger)
One of the funniest and best screen comedies ever made finally comes to DVD's some of the finest work ever done by Hepburn, Grant and Hawks, and so don't let your Bogdanovich issues (or mine) interfere with the delights provided by this two-disc set. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at digitallyOBSESSED.com (Jon Danziger)
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)
Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Thomas Scalzo)
A master at his craft, Hawks had the rare ability to make comedy, the most unforgiving of genres, look easy, consistently and successfully conducting each and every instrument at his disposal to come in at the proper place and time. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Thomas Scalzo)
Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews
It's terrifically funny and deserves a look. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews
UpcomingDiscs.com (David Annandale)
Cary Grant is a straightlaced paleontologist about to be married to a woman even more
straightlaced than he. His life flies into pieces when he runs into the flighty socialite Katharine
Hepburn. Falling instantly in love, Hepburn does all she can ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (David Annandale)
Zertinet Movies Review
In "Bringing Up Baby," the sparks fly between stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. They are a hilarious team, one that cannot be watched without breaking a smile. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Zertinet Movies Review
Edwin Jahiel
By Howard Hawks. It immortalized "the intercostal clavicle" as zoologist Cary Grant is pursued by socialite flutterhead Katharine Hepburn and they both seek Baby, the runaway pet leopard which catalyzes madness. Grant and Hepburn are superbly matched, ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Edwin Jahiel
DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)
Howard Hawks' direction is at its best here, barely keeping up with the action while establishing necessary visual clues and paying off his gags in appropriate wide shots. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)
DVD MovieGuide
Probably the best-realized example of the "screwball comedy", Bringing Up Baby beats us into submission with its relentless procession of insanity. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at DVD MovieGuide
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
"One of Hollywood's greatest comedies." ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Slant Magazine - DVD Review
Bringing Up Baby remains an over-appreciated curiosity piece, but the DVD treatment is all-around first rate. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at Slant Magazine - DVD Review
filmcritic.com
There are many, though, who today make the argument that Bringing Up Baby is a forgotten treasure, that audiences didn't know what they were thinking at the time. Don't believe a word of it. ...read the complete Bringing Up Baby movie review at filmcritic.com
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by cicero0000 on July 16, 2009 Half Moon Bay, California
Back when they really knew how to make 'em, this movie is absolutely the most absurd and hilarious that Hollywood knew how to make. Every character you bump into is a little screwy, and everything from Hepburn's ridiculous dress to the leopard ...
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