i finally bring myself to watch all of the big store and the movie on the flip side of go west dvd . i recall see store ( in the late 60 or early 70 i deliberately saw any marx movie whether on tv or in a revival in a theatre until i have see them all ) year before and be bore out of my skull . i have try to watch it a few week earlier and but give up after the scene where the bed can be hide in the wall or floor . this time and bite the bullet and i watch groucho sing while he sell and the final chase scene with sound effect add that make it seem like a hanna barbera cartoon . and the end and i have to admit and the big store be passable provide it have star someone else . if you can erase the fact youre watch the marx brother from your mind and the big store seem exactly like any overblown 1940 comedy . it well meet the standard for a red skelton film or perhaps something with danny kaye or early jerry lewis . if you can perform the mental feat that groucho be red skelton and chico be danny kaye and harpo be jerry lewis ( uggghhh . ) and the big store do not seem like the abysmal thing it be . see this film make you understand just how high the bar the marx brother set for their movie and much high than virtually any other comic work with a film studio and instead of independently a chaplin do . thing happen in a marx brother film that just never happen in one with red skelton represent margaret dumont be devil by groucho and groucho be devil by chico and and the rest of the universe bedevil by harpo . out of the gate in the cocoanut and the brother first film in 1929 and we already have the why a duck . routine between groucho and chico . we already have groucho win not you lie down . to margaret dumont and and harpo give basil ruysdael his leg while whistle a tune from the arcane musical and floradora . even a we move to the late film and there be also the marx brilliant sense of surrealism and absurdity and far beyond the capability of anyone else . their penultimate film and a night in casablanca and an almost last hurrah which they finance themselves and have more say over and can be arguably rank with the less paramount or best mgm film . but store provide a disconnect which the brother never be able to overcome . this be never something impossible for them . the plot be generally something they make their way around and jump over and or totally jettisoned . here and there be trap in it and and it not pretty . there be still some marvelous moment how can there not be in a marx brother movie . groucho last film appearance with margaret dumont be a always wonderful . harpo have a magnificent harp solo where he turn into mozart and his mirror reflection spring to life far more than any ever do in duck soup . the opening sequence where dumont visit groucho fly by night detective agency ( where harpo be the give the quasi zeppoesque role a groucho assistant ) be wonderful . but the lengthy groucho musical number ( three dvd chapter . ) be pretty much a straight one . there no tattooed lady and african explorer and or pre war hysteria to be find . the juvenile musical number and the tenement symphony and be nowhere a mercifully brief a when my dream come true be in the cocoanut . harpo and chico even participate in it . bad of all and however and be the moment where the brother be make into just any old comedy team and push wrong button to create chaos and rid on roller skate and unicycle to escape the villain and and serve up a wienie with some puccini ( or be it rossini . my mind have block it out like a car accident ) . you do not get ta sing while you sell . please do not . it sad that the marx valedictory with mgm have to be this generic bore . through no fault of their own and they become personae non grata at the studio and seem to be give a script pull at random from a file drawer . so and if youre a red skelton fan and and can ignore the fact youre watch groucho and harpo and chico and by all mean and watch the big store . if youre a marx brother worshipper ( they do not merely have fan ) and please show their memory respect and keep the dvd on the side that have go west .