Bringing Up Baby on DVD (1938)

Bringing up Baby

Kate from Manchester , 13/08/2004

'Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn run around after a leopard' is all you really need to know. It relies on slapstick for a fair part of the film, as well as Grant's impressively full range of comedy face pulling.

It's a good watch. Kind of a Sunday afternoon film suitable for the kiddies (if you can prise them away from the latest animated disney mush). If you want to see Grant and Hepburn doing a much better job then 'The Philadelphia Story' is a much better choice. Oh yes indeedy.

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Bringing Up Baby

SAI81 from Tonbridge [Highly rated reviewer] , 20/08/2005

Of all genres of cinema time takes probably the toughest toll on comedy. Tastes evolve over the years and things that used to be funny now aren't and so I found it a welcome and remarkable surprise that Bringing Up Baby has stood the test of time so very well. Grant is a paleontologist trying to get a grant for his museum and planning to marry his fiance (Virginia Walker) when he meets Hepburn she falls in love with him and begins to devise more and more outlandish ways to see him and keep him around so he'll reciprocate. This leads to hillarious comic encounters with, among others, a leopard (Baby), a big game humter (Charles Ruggles) ad Hepburn's aunt (May Roboson) who happens to be the donor Grant wants to extarct a million dollars from for his museum. Bringing Up Baby is just wonderful. From first frame to last it's hugely funny in both writing and performance. Grant and Hepburn are both brilliant. She fast talking, witty and clever. He bumbling, clumsy and flustered and they share great chemistry, bouncing the endlessly quotable dialogue off each other brilliantly. Both also prove highly adept at the physical comedy demanded by the script with a sublime scene with Grant manically trying to cover an embarrasing tear in Hepburn's dress with his hat proving the highlight. I could spend the day talking about Bringing Up Baby and its many hillarious moments from the riotous dinner scene at the aunt's house to the unfailingly sharp performances...but I won't. Instead I'll simply tell you that you'll seldom have a better time watching a film and urge you to discover it.

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Entertaining

Richard Butler from Wakefield, England , 03/08/2005

An entertaining slapstick comedy that relies more on visual gags rather than sharp, witty dialouge that i have seen Cary Grant preform in His Girl Friday. Still, it was enjoyable and worth a watch.

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Bringing Up Baby

dize1 from London , 04/09/2006

My entire family ranging in age from 21 to 54 find this to be the number one comedy film of all time. Every line should fetch a laugh from any viewer willing to enjoy themselves.

The performances of Hepburn and Carey are the best and rarely equaled.

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Bringing up Baby

Kate from Manchester , 13/08/2004

'Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn run around after a leopard' is all you really need to know. It relies on slapstick for a fair part of the film, as well as Grant's impressively full range of comedy face pulling.

It's a good watch. Kind of a Sunday afternoon film suitable for the kiddies (if you can prise them away from the latest animated disney mush). If you want to see Grant and Hepburn doing a much better job then 'The Philadelphia Story' is a much better choice. Oh yes indeedy.

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Entertaining

Richard Butler from Wakefield, England , 03/08/2005

An entertaining slapstick comedy that relies more on visual gags rather than sharp, witty dialouge that i have seen Cary Grant preform in His Girl Friday. Still, it was enjoyable and worth a watch.

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