In a fitting fashion, all of the supporting roles remain serious with precise consistency, employing the rules of chivalry to absurd heights, allowing Kaye to remain the lone source of over-the-top comedy relief.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 29, 2022

It's a Danny Kaye vehicle from the first frame...meant to be nothing more than a good bit of fun... More significantly, it's a reminder of how easily we can forget some of Hollywood's most extraordinary, if nonconforming, geniuses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2021

Nothing can top the fantastic wordplay involving the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace, and the flagon with a dragon ... only one of which holds the brew that is true.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 29, 2021

Danny Kaye and his reliable writerdirectors, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, join forces in another high-spirited comedy, this one a burlesque of the screen's own sword-opera spectaculars.

| Oct 28, 2019

The Court Jester (1955) is Paramount's Vista-Vision comedy film starring Danny Kaye (in his best-known performance). It is a classic, high-energy musical spoof of the dashing adventure films in Hollywood's Golden Age...

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 29, 2019

I was of course struck by the light touch with which the romance is handled.

| Mar 19, 2019

It's as much horseplay as swordplay and, altogether, a witty delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2014

Rightly regarded as one of the peaks of Kaye's career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2013

Costumed swashbucklers undergo a happy spoofing in The Court Jester with Danny Kaye heading the fun-poking.

| Jan 28, 2011

A flawlessly executed, beautifully designed genre parody.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2011

In The Court Jester, Funnyman Kaye takes all the laughs he needs, but he takes them when they do not stop the show.

| Jan 28, 2011

A cracking jest, wonderfully enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2011

Some accomplished slapstick, but nothing special.

| Jan 28, 2011

Terrific family fun.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 28, 2010

With most comedies that were still reveling in the world of Vaudeville despite three decades of separation, The Court Jester throws the kitchen sink at the audience.

| Feb 11, 2009

The cleverly written plot is suitable for Kaye's talent.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 23, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2008

Whether it's really watchable depends on what you feel about the charmless Kaye, whose vehicle this is from start to finish.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's good fun.

| Mar 25, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2005