Really Surprised!

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Expected more

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Abbott & Costello play Harry Pierce & Willie Piper, who buy a movie studio from a Mr. Gorman(played by Fred Clark). Turns out he was a con man, who has pulled this scam before. They track him cross country by train(and on foot) and end up in Hollywood at the studio, where they find him directing silent films under an alias. They then go to work as stunt men, which leads to lots of expected comedy mishaps, as they try to get even with Gorman. Weak comedy has a few funny bits but not many, and lacks any point, since the Keystone Kops are not as fondly remembered as Abbott & Costello. Their penultimate film at home studio Universal is sadly indicative of their decline.

"Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops" is a film about the early days of cinema, and contains a lot of cinematic tricks itself: stunt doubling, back projection, fast motion, reverse motion, freeze frame, special effects, etc. Some of these tricks work (the horse jump over a cliff is a fantastic shot which I still can't figure out how they pulled off), some don't (the plane scenes look especially fake), but the real problem is that the story is episodic and A&C have only two routines worth mentioning: one at the start, with Abbott mistaken as Costello's violent father, and one involving two pairs of cops and burglars, one fake (Bud & Lou) and one real. The climactic chase, involving the title "Kops", is frenetic but unfunny. This type of slapstick will still appeal to young kids, but anyone over the age of 12 will probably be begging for some more verbal humor. (**)

This Abbott and Costello movie is pretty good. Abbott and Costello was good as always! Its a funny movie. One funny scene is when Abbott and Costello are in the house and Abbott play the robber and Costello plays the cop. It was hilarious! If you like Abbott and Costello then see Abbott and Costello Meet The Keystone Kops!

A&C Meet the Kops is a funny movie, then and now. Bud and Lou were funny men, and their best film work was done at U-I in the postwar years, starting with their Meet Frankenstein classic. All their U-I Meet Somebody movies were funny, some were very funny. This one's a hoot all the way. I saw it with Power and Hayward in UNTAMED, Fox Redwood, April 15, 1955. Can't get better value for money than that. I was 16, am now 63. Maybe you have to be really old to get it, but youngsters, these guys are better than Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller all put together. No, really, they are.