One of the most consistsntly funny movies of all time. WHat more can I say? It's everything you'd want in a movie and then some. Has some of the funniest stars like Milton Berle, Jonathan winters, don knotts, etc. everyone has chemistry, and I can tell 100000000% of effort was put in every frame. O can even nitpick and find a flaw in it

How can you take the biggest names in comedy of that period and make an immense film showcasing all their talents and the single funniest character is.... Ethel Merman? The problem is that these are not 'character actors' but major comedians who each live and are funny in their own 'comic universe'. Brought together into a single narrative and a single movie it is leaden.Everyone from Phil Silvers to Jonathan Winters and Sid Caesar are wasted because these are comedians meant to comically DOMINATE their surroundings. The movie itself 'climaxes' in spectacular pandemonium but all the comedians never achieve that comic 'high' one expects of them. It is too long by a good 45 minutes as well. Ethel Merman DID make me laugh.

I just had rotator cuff surgery and this is one of my first film reviews post-surgery. So, although the movie is 3 1/2 hours long, I am being very brief because I just don't have the energy to write longer AND because they are already a ton of reviews for the movie.The story involves a group of seemingly normal people who go crazy due to greed and quickly become unhinged at the process of sudden wealth. In addition to this core group, you have many cameos (many of which could have been used better) of very famous comedy actors of yesterday such as The Three Stooges, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown and many others.So is this film a brilliant comedy? Not exactly. Subtlety certainly is NOT something you see in the film and Ethel Merman's performance is ridiculously over the top (no one is THAT obnoxious). Instead it's more a turn off your brain and just enjoy sort of movie. Funny, high energy but rarely brilliant or clever...it's well worth seeing and holds up well but also isn't a film that makes the best use of its many stars.

Just about every comic actor in the business showed up for this film. It's fun as a kind of period piece, but it doesn't help make this a well constructed film. It centers around a search for buried treasure, but that's about it. Spencer Tracy is the centering factor as his policeman investigates what's going on and then becomes part of the process. Unfortunately, there is mostly a lot of shouting and perpetual motion, but most of the bits aren't all that funny. Everything concludes in an unremarkable way. I've always felt that the comedies of the sixties were rather uninspired (dull would be a better way of putting it). My friends and I liked these movies when we were in junior high, but these things don't really stand the test of time.