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Memorable, crazy movie

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

With William Powell as Godfrey, how can one lose. This movie takes place during the depression, where men gather around a dump, trying to live as best they can. A spoiled brat rich girl on a scavenger hunt needs to find a lost soul to bring in. She chooses Powell, who rejects her, but he ends up at the party through a series of pratfalls. Soon he has made his way into the rich family's home as a servant. We know there is more to Godfrey than meets the eye because, instead of the coarse personality that was expected, he is refined and intelligent. This speaks to the narrow mindedness of the people who prospered while others had nothing. The young woman does what she can to hurt Godfrey, including planting what would be seen as stolen goods in his mattress. There are so many quirky characters and so much fun interaction, that this comes off incredibly well. One of the best screwball comedies of all time.

It seems superfluous to add yet another five-star review to those already published, but "My Man Godfrey" is a movie that grows on you. I didn't like it all that much when I first viewed it. In fact, I felt that the movie was showing its age and did not shine as brightly as on its first release. "In fact," I wrote, "the pacing is often rather slow, especially in Lombard and Powell's later scenes, most of them shot by producer/director La Cava in sustained, boring takes. In fact, Gail Patrick survives better than Lombard. True, the movie opens very promisingly and the acting throughout is very capable, although it's worth noting that comedians Palette and Mowbray are used as straight men to feed witty comebacks to Powell. The sets and costumes are delightful, the photography superb!" As the copyright has expired, the movie is now available on many DVDs. For some odd reason, the cheapest ones are often superior in quality to the more expensive!

My Man Godfrey was a great romantic screwball comedy from the 1930's. It had light humor but was still a very funny movie. And had a great storyline of a man who came from nothing, became a butler for a rich family and got himself all cleaned up and worked very hard for the family and saved up money for him to better himself and own a restaurant and even helps the family out of their debt, because they have helped him so much. Even though one of the ladies of the house kept trying to bring him down, after seeing what a good guy, Godfrey is, she feels bad for it and starts really like him just as much as everyone else. I thought it was really funny that in the end Godfrey ends up basically being forced to marry the woman who helped him become this great success, but who he could not really stand to be with.

Within the first five minutes of watching this film, I knew that it would go down in history as one of my very favorite movies. The classification of "Screwball Comedy" accurately describes nearly every aspect of this film. The cast of characters in this film did an incredibly good job in the roles that they were cast. Although I did not always understand the references that they made, I would expect nothing less as I did not grow up in the time period of which the movie is set. I would imagine that the set and the props are very realistic for the time period although I did not live during that time and therefore wouldn't know for sure that the inside of a house looked like that in the 1930's. The characters also had a very good on air personality and developed very realistic relationships with their co-stars which only added to the hilariousness of the film and made for a very pleasant viewing experience.