Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Absolutely Fantastic

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.Bosley Crowther liked it: "Let us be thankful that Paramount is still blessed with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, and that it has set its cameras to tailing these two irrepressible wags on another fantastic excursion, Road to Morocco, which came to the Paramount yesterday. For the screen, under present circumstances, can hold no more diverting lure than the prospect of Hope and Crosby ambling, as they have done before, through an utterly slaphappy picture, picking up Dorothy Lamour along the way and tossing acid wisecracks at each other without a thought for reason or sense...The short of it is that Road to Morocco is a daffy, laugh-drafting film. And you'll certainly agree with the camel which, at one point, offers the gratuitous remark, "This is the screwiest picture I was ever in." The camel remark is pretty funny, and the movie as a whole is quite a treat. I can't say I'm a big Bob Hope fan, but I love Bing Crosby, and together they make quite a pair. This isn't laugh-out-loud funny but it has a very vaudeville-ish sense to it, where the routines are so hackneyed and cliché, but you can't help but appreciate them.

I'll give it a two because it has a lot of music, otherwise it would be a one.I saw this movie for the first time tonight and it's the first "Road" picture I've seen. I was expecting waaaaay better. Robert Osborn says this is the best of the Road movies. If that's true I needn't bother to see the others. The best thing about this movie is that it has a lot of songs in the first half, but that's balanced out by only one production number with dancing in the entire movie.I didn't like the movie. Neither Hope nor Crosby came across all that well, their characters weren't very charming, the movie was not funny at all, most of the dialog was just lame filler, there wasn't much action, there wasn't much spectacle.The movie wasn't what I expected. I was expecting more "Road," but there isn't much. They quickly make it to the palace and then most of the movie takes place there, until the end. I was also expecting a lot more of the famous "road" style of breaking the fourth wall, wherein the characters talk directly to the audience or comment on the plot. There was only about 4 instances of that. One of those is an example of the non-funny humor of this script:(Hope recaps the plot up to now to Crosby) Crosby: I know all that! Hope: Yeah but the people that came in half-way through the picture don't. Crosby: You mean they missed my song?Those are two weak punchlines, but at least they are actually jokes. Much of the rest of the script doesn't even have any jokes. An example is: Crosby: Remind me to throw you a piece of cheese in the morning. (Indirectly calling Hope a rat).That's not funny at all, it barely even qualifies as a joke, but that's the kind of non-joke dialog that carries most of the movie. Many of the scenes don't even come that close to a joke, just using generic uninteresting dialog like:Crosby: Hey, whadda ya' take me for? You think that you can just throw me to the dogs? Hope: Well why not, you did it to me didn't you? Crosby: Yeah but that's because I was lookin' out for us. You're not lookin' out for nobody. Hope: Oh yeah? Well then why did I pay the check?(the above is just from my memory. It's not exact but it illustrates to you what I mean).And so on....just generic dialog with no jokes at all.My grade: A waste of time.

If you are looking for a comedy set in the Sahara region, then look no further. With the possible exception of Laurel and Hardy's BEAU HUNKS (a nice short), I can't think of a single desert comedy as good as ROAD TO MOROCCO. It's easily better than Abbott and Costello's LOST IN A HAREM and THE FOREIGN LEGION as well as Laurel and Hardy's amazingly poor FLYING DEUCES.The best thing about this Road picture is that although it is filled with music (something they just HAD to do in the 1940s), the songs are amazingly good. Unlike some of the comedies of the era, I wasn't tempted to fast-forward through the songs! With "Road to Morocco" and the lovely "Moonlight Becomes You", I was actually happy when the songs began! Wow--that's a first! The film is very typical of the series with Bing and Bob doing their usual nonsense. However, if it's possible, Bing abuses Bob even more than the last films, as he sells him into slavery!! And, thinking he's been rescued by Dorothy Lamour, Bob has actually been chosen to marry her because he's a patsy--a prophecy has been made that indicates that her first husband will die within the week!! Poor Bob Hope! As for the humor, it's a bit more fast-paced and fun than ever before and this, combined with the music, make this clearly the best of the films in the series. A lot of silly fun from start to finish, I particularly liked the various jokes where the actors stepped out of character to make fun of themselves or the film. Heck, even the camels got into the spirit of this self-mockery!!The only serious problem with the film was the painfully unfunny and gross mental retardation skit--where Bob pretends to be retarded in order to get free food! Not only is this an insult to the mentally challenged but also to Islam. "Zakat" (charitable giving) is one of the pillars of Islam and here it is given a less than noble send-off. Now I am NOT a particularly politically correct guy (and often, this mindset annoys me because it can be anti-free speech), but here I do think the film was pretty tacky--but not so much that it seriously damages the film overall. I accept it as part of history and the way people were back then--like it or not. If it will seriously offend you skip the film entirely, speed past this portion or just grow thicker skin. By the way, the camels in the film were all Bactrian camels--native to the far Eastern portion of Asia--particularly Mongolia. You won't find such a camel within thousands of miles of Morocco except in zoos! Nope, the single-humped variety is native to the region only.

In this third outing in the series, Hope and Crosby, now firmly established in the eyes of the world as a fully fledged comedy team, find themselves shipwrecked on a deserted shore, acquire a 'spitting' camel and ride it all the way to Morocco where on arrival Hope is sold into slavery by Crosby for the price of a meal. What a pal!However Crosby realises he has sold himself a little short when he discovers Hope is actually been sold to the sultry and delicious Princess Shalmar played as always by Road To.. regular Dorothy Lamour and she intends to marry him.Throw in a jealous, throat-slitting sheik played by Anthony Quinn, a few talking animals, a magic ring with three wishes, mirages, tribal wars and a bevvy of songs and it all adds up to the most outrageous Road adventure yet.The humour in this movie was very anarchic for its day, with Hope for the first time breaking down the fourth wall and talking direct to the audience for a few of his one liners. In fact with the possible exception of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson's 'Helzapoppin' the previous year, the comedy barriers had rarely been pushed out so far.Also the songs are in a higher league with 'Moonlight Becomes You' providing Bing with one of the biggest hits of his career, and Dorothy Lamour brings us 'Constantly', a beautiful romantic ballad, the words of which must have seemed so poignant for those women with loved ones overseas fighting the war.Check out this film, Not only is it arguably the best in the series but as a stand alone film in its own right, they seldom come better than this.