[The Marx Brothers] troop through this impossible hour and a half of picture with such speed and clatter as to pin up a record for one of the most hilarious collections of bad jokes I’ve laughed myself nearly sick over.

| Dec 27, 2023

While A Night at the Opera is amongst the best Marx Brothers movies, it's not the same without the anarchy that made their Paramount films so much fun.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 20, 2023

It's impossible to determine which is the greater scene: the stateroom or the party of the first part.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 2, 2021

Uproarious high spots -- the best, perhaps, of their kind -- render A Night at the Opera, starring Groucho, Harpo and Chico, a champion comedy in the year's output. In some ways, it is the best comedy in which the three brothers have ever appeared.

| Nov 20, 2020

Their eccentric adventures from Milan to New York contain such notable scenes as that in Groucho's cabin; the impersonation of the foreign aviators; the disruption of the opera orchestra; and the final, breathless sequences.

| Nov 20, 2020

Considering that the dialogue of A Night at the Opera was written by two such theatrical craftsmen as George Kaufman and Morris Rysklnd, it reaches a surprising nadir of inanity.

| Nov 20, 2020

Groucho, Chico and Harpo continue to be collectively and individually three of the really first-rate comedians of today. Their only peers are Mr. Charles Chaplin and Mr. W. C. Fields.

| Nov 20, 2020

The scenes at the opera house during a performance offer not only good music but extremely laugh-provoking comedy, caused by the antics of the Marx Brothers.

| Nov 20, 2020

A Night at the Opera is the most beautifully timed madness of 1935.

| Nov 20, 2020

Clowning such as these players indulge in must be clever if it is not to become boring, and the fact that their idiosyncrasies, no matter how extravagant, never pall, is the best indication of the success they achieve.

| Nov 20, 2020

To attempt to criticize the Marxes is heresy and schism and we'll have none of it.

| Nov 20, 2020

This is pantomime at its best, and the greatest clown of the three is Harpo.

| Nov 20, 2020

Groucho follows his own formula of throwing out gags, good and bad. as fast as he can talk, letting the good ones float the bad ones, trusting that the average will favor him.

| Nov 20, 2020

A Night At the Opera is quite the funniest, the most ambitious and the most entertaining of any of the Marx cinema offerings.

| Nov 20, 2020

Whether one likes the Marx Brothers or not, one has to admit that they could certainly entice a prima donna into accompanying them to the mad-house.

| Nov 20, 2020

It is only at intervals that the Marx Brothers are allowed in to turn the normal world upside down in their own imitable way. The intervals are, however, in the best Marxian manner.

| Nov 20, 2020

Every minute of the picture offers something new to laugh at. It's the best and most insane of their releases since they started their mad flight across the cinema heavens.

| Nov 20, 2020

The film has a definite and important musical angle, and it is to the credit of producer and director that the two angles of the production have been so successfully interwoven.

| Nov 20, 2020

You'll howl at this one.

| Nov 20, 2020

Rich, racy humour, with operatic interludes, is presented by the three Marx Brothers in A Night At The Opera.

| Nov 20, 2020