The funniest movie I've ever seen

| Apr 7, 2025

It’s a wild ride, with Cary Grant as a paleontologist, Hepburn as a zany heiress—and a leopard, the baby of the film’s title. Does it necessarily make sense? No. Is it brilliant in spite of that? Indeed.

| Feb 13, 2025

Howard Hawks directs with his usual zip, leading us effortlessly through every silly set piece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2024

I am happy to report that Bringing Up Baby is funny from the word go, that it has no other meaning to recommend it, nor therapeutic qualities, and that I wouldn’t swap it for practically any three things of the current season.

| Dec 26, 2023

Bringing Up Baby delves joyfully beyond the stiff pretences of modern life to reveal the wild and lustful animal that still lies beneath the surface.

| Dec 12, 2023

One of the funnest films of the season that is worth a watch. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 26, 2023

Unfortunately the narrative is too heavy with action. Movement and dialogue are so incessantly rapid that they occasionally become overwhelming. But the clean, fast fun of the film cannot be denied.

| Jul 26, 2023

The story is clever, with witty dialogue and a wealth of hilarious sequences that provide for the best of entertainment.

| Jul 26, 2023

Calculated easily to make even the scrupulously honest man forget his income-tax problems, Bringing Up Baby... is the giddiest, goofiest concoction of movie fare that ever tickled fandom.

| Jul 25, 2023

This is "down-to-earth" farce with liberal flashes of slapstick, and the surprise performance comes from Katharine Hepburn. She turns in a breezy performance that is different and incomparable with anything she has done before.

| Jul 25, 2023

It is Cary Grant's film chiefly, with Charlie Ruggles all too briefly amusing in his jungle calls.

| Jul 25, 2023

It is so funny, from first to last reel, that you will ache with laughter.

| Jul 25, 2023

Every type of audience will be highly amused and entertained with this new RKO pix, literally a riot from beginning to end, with the laugh total heavy and the action fast. Katharine Hepburn is very funny in a comedy role and Cary Grant scores heavily.

| Jul 25, 2023

Katherine Hepburn, of all people, has also gone slapstick. And, dash it, if we don't like her that way.

| Jul 25, 2023

The director, Howard Hawks, keeps all this trifling nonsense in such artful balance that it never impinges on the real world; it may be the American movies' closest equivalent to Restoration comedy.

| Jul 25, 2023

The dialogue sparkles and the acting shines as the big cat escapes and mishap follows mishap in swift succession.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 25, 2023

Countless films have imitated Bringing Up Baby, most famously Peter Bogdanovich's homage What's Up, Doc?, but it is futile to look for its equal.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2023

If you haven’t seen it, it’s impossible to overemphasize how truly bizarre Bringing Up Baby is -- less a film than a series of nonstop comedy sketches, loosely tied together by a kooky plot and even kookier characters.

| Jul 25, 2023

Cary Grant handles the role of the paleontologist with his usual comic skill but the real surprise of the picture is Katharine Hepburn.

| Jul 25, 2023

If you catch me on the right day and ask what I think the best comedy of all time is, it’s very likely I’ll say it’s 1938’s screwball classic Bringing Up Baby.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 30, 2023