Starts off with incredible flow and chemistry between the leads. The energy is one of a kind. Unfortunately, the last act is a considerable step down as the plot becomes overloaded with additional characters you don't want to spend time with.

Such a fun movie. Hepburn and Grant show their star power along with Hawks masterful direction. The film drags just a bit in the later half but this is the bench mark of which all screwball comedies should be compared to. Fabulous film!

Bringing Up Baby - 10/10. Howard Hawks, Cary Grant, and Katherine Hepburn are some of the biggest and most successful people from the Golden age of Hollywood. Though each person had amazing careers later on after this film, Bringing Up Baby is a perfect example of a film that was well ahead of its time, and once it was appreciated, was considered as a masterpiece in its respective genre. The movie is probably the first film in the now super popular screwball comedy genre. Back when it came out in 1938, the film bombed at the box office, and even lead to having Hepburn losing out on film roles because of its unsuccessful initial run. But the film gained a better reputation as the film started playing on television in the 50s. Many films of today can learn a thing or two in the way the comedy is presented and delivered in this film. Grant and Hepburn play up the odd couple dynamic really well, with Grant's uptight nature and Hepburn's bubbly mannerisms helping bring a nice levity to the proceedings. The movie is littered with zany moments which feel over the top in the right way. What a lot of comedies do nowadays is try to make shocking moments that are so ridiculous, yet this film understands the perfect balance of zany and natural humour. Hawks provides the viewer with a quick and fast movie which translates really well all these years later. You're aware of it being a classic film, but it doesn't feel that way in the slightest. Time just flies by watching the movie, and its just a really fun time overall. Hopefully the movie never ever is remade, because I highly doubt anyone can top the performances that the whole cast gives in the film.

Katharine Hepburn's character is the original manic pixie nightmare girl. Imagine a wealthy Amelia Bedelia. Each minute this movie descends into deeper madness and takes the viewer with it.

Beautiful comedy. 100% recommended.

One of the most enjoyable movies I have ever seen in my lifetime. Actors are exceptional across every role, and the story is so hilarious. Highly recommended.

An absolute classic. This movie is in my top 20 list. 200 mile an hour comedy, every line a laugh, it never lets up. One of the best movies ever made.

Timeless perfection! The only regret I have in watching classic movies such as this one as that I waited so long and wasted so many years when I could have been enjoying them over and over again. The amazing thing about this madcap comedy is that so little feels dated over 80 years later. This is proof positive that a well done movie will always feel relevant. I am quickly and madly falling in love with young Katharine Hepburn during this period of cinema - I am understanding her reputation as one of the great actresses ever. Her comic skills are basically unparalleled. And Grant may be one of the great movie stars ever - not necessarily an immersive or chameleonic actor but someone who can run the gamut from screwball comedy to melodrama to Hitchcock thriller with equal ease and success. I laughed out loud A LOT, not only at the broad physical comedy but also the little little gestures by the actors and tiny nuances in the screenplay that are easy to miss. This may be my favorite film of the 1930s so far. And it joins my list of favorite movie comedies along with WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, TOOTSIE and THE NAKED GUN. This is the perfect movie for someone wanting to start becoming acquainted with movies of the bygone era. And it's a film I think most if not all of the family can appreciate on one level or another.

I believe this movie qualifies for the term "madcap". Genuinely, timelessly, cacklingly, funny in some places and disturbingly, exhaustingly, pathological on a few levels. But as a product of its time, this movie is impossible to look away from and very cheeky. (Even if you're rooting for Susan to be eaten by a leopard.)

Absolutely bizarre. Came in with no knowledge whatsoever and thoroughly enjoyed, definitely a few 'laugh out loud' moments.

One of the best of the "Screwball Comedy" era, Bringing Up Baby is a blast from start to finish. Katherine Hepburn and Carey Grant are both fantastic in this, and are well supported by Charles Ruggles and Barry FitzGerald. Easily Hepburn's best film from the 1930's.

It starts off as an appealing comedy yet degenerates real fast. Yes, the animal action is really well done and the final stunt is cool, but the rest is an obnoxious train wreck of forced slapstick, endless hysteria and no dynamics - it's nonsensical mayhem all the time: no laughter comes out of that, just a fucking headache. And after 100 minutes of the most batshit crazy mishaps, we're supposed to believe that all loose ends get tied up like that and there are no hurt feelings? I call bullshit.

It's easy to see why everyone fell in love with this screwball comedy and held it in high regard as one of the best romantic comedies in Hollywood for decades. Cary Grant and Catherine Hepburn's chemistry is the only spark Bringing Up Baby needed to be great. They generate genuine laughter with their hilarious acting and line delivery, so it's no wonder it has become a classic.

A wacky, quick-lipped comedy from Howard Hawks, which foreshadows the director's sharper, later work on His Girl Friday. Bringing Up Baby follows a tightly-wound paleontologist (Cary Grant), out of his element on a fundraising mission, who crosses paths with an accident-prone chatterbox socialite (Katherine Hepburn) and her housebroken pet leopard. Grant's mild-mannered professor is immediately frustrated by the entanglement, but the more he struggles to extricate himself, the tighter he's bound. The girl is quicksand, basically, and she revels in the havoc she plays upon her unsuspecting prey. Eventually, somehow, the two develop a strong affection for one another, but not before they've ostracized a benefactor, misplaced a priceless fossil and spent a few hours behind bars. Grant was no stranger to comedies (his collaboration with Hawks would continue in the aforementioned Friday), but this was Hepburn's first foray into the genre. Rumor has it she needed a little behind-the-scenes coaching, but she pulls her weight in the finished product and shows strong chemistry with her counterpart. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of laughs in the first hour, especially given the movie's age, but it wanes on the home stretch and I didn't really care for either of the main characters: one irritable wet blanket, one scatter-brained troublemaker. They get into some good scrapes together, but fail to redeem their intrinsic faults and don't quite merit the happy send-off they both enjoy.

One of the most famous and greatest movie of Howard Hawks. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburne gave an amazing performance and compose a dazzlingly energetic couple, playing off each other's polar opposite personalities with impressive cinematic flair.

"Bringing Up Baby" is a film I unconditionally love; it is so utterly sublime a comedy that I was truly sighing, awed, 'it can't get better than this...' at many points. Yet it regularly does; Hawks keeps the momentum going majestically; it is one incredibly surreal, bizarre tangent going off unexpectedly into another, at every juncture. He photographs and presents his actors in the most charming and amusing possible ways, and the film is certainly a more leisurely, perfectly pitched film than "His Girl Friday", which I nonetheless admire. There is a beauty in the photography and simple choice of perspectives and angles that matches the There is not one actress in the annals of film who I adore more than Katharine Hepburn; she is a compelling performer, of great charm, intelligence and wit; of very real, idiosyncratic looks that to this eye are beautiful, vivacious, impish. In "Bringing Up Baby" her Susan Vance is a very interesting diversion from her more usual type of character - the slightly superior, in-control ice maiden, as shown in say "The Philadelphia Story". She is phenomenal in that film, yet here beguiling in a completely different fashion, playing a slightly scatterbrained, sprightly, charmingly delinquent woman, who seems to have no control over anything; least of all her feelings for Grant. Her giddy, breathless exuberance and anarchic helplessness are really endearing; it's a wonderful film that stretches out the credulity of Grant's wonderfully straight-laced character's resistance to Miss Vance. The ending is a gorgeous, satisfying pay-off, as he finally gives way, as would we all! It's a charming, suitable ending that rectifies the slight fall-off of the preceding jail section of the film. That is very amusing, but in a more predictable, slightly laboured way. In stark contrast to the first 70-80 minutes of the film, which amounts to about the finest sustained American comedy I have seen of that length - "Way Out West" and "Duck Soup" being shorter in total. Cary Grant, truly an institution of a comedic player, is very different to his more remembered persona of later years. It's remarkable to see this absurd little man, bespectacled, unworldly and cutting an orthodox figure played so perfectly by the suave Grant. This is gleefully played on with the sublime scene where Hepburn and Grant are trying to catch the leopard - Kate butterfly net in hand! She accidentally happens to break his glasses and is even more taken with him without them... The tension between how we usually remember Grant and the character he is playing here does add an extra layer of amusement to the film. Need I really add that the rest of the film's company are note perfect? Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald and many more really give the perfectly matched stars a fine backdrop. I shan't spoil too much of this heady, sublimely silly film... just go and watch it and see Howard Hawks, a master craftsman, at his best - there are no pretensions but making a quite wonderful character comedy - and Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant on insurmountable form. With these delightful stars and anarchic, scintillating comic material, what we have on our hands is an unutterably fine film, one of my very favourites of all time. Where else are you going to get such plot threads running simultaneously as: a hunt for a rare archeological find buried by a dog, an absurd upper-middle-class family dinner and an escaped leopard?

A screwball comedy that is an absolute delight. I never lost a grin on my face throughout the whole film.

Yes, this is a crazy screwball comedy, but it works. A nerdy college professor is finally about to receive a missing bone for his brontosaurus skeleton in his museum. He also is about to marry a woman who is more interested in his work than in him as a person. On top of that, he has to get in good with a lawyer who represents a society matron who has $! million to give away...hopefully to his museum. Trouble is, a spoiled rich woman keeps getting in his way and interfering with his plans. And the woman even has problems of her own...what is she supposed to do with a tamed leopard (the "Baby" of the title) her brother just sent her? And the professor gets unwillingly involved. This is a clearly not intended to be realistic, but a comedy of errors a la Shakespeare. Old-fashioned without being dated, and family entertainment with enough spice (such as a torn skirt scene) to prevent it from being insipid. Great light entertainment!

One of the funniest movies of all time. An absolute gem of a screwball comedy. Truly brilliant work by the incredibly beautiful and ravishing Katharine Hepburn, the truly great comic actor Cary Grant, and the master of screwball comedy Howard hawks. Funnier every time I see it -- and that must be at least 50 times, with surely many more to come. One of my truly favorite movies of all time!!

Atrocious. I know this is supposed to be a classic, but the great Katharine Hepburn plays an insipid, manipulative twit. The plot is inane. The whole thing is shill. Don't waste your time unless you want to watch a lot of morons scream at each other.