Moon Minis - Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby

Hagar Wilde co-writes her own adaptation of a short story where man and woman come together over a leopard in this very funny 1938 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn star as two hair-brained individuals who get caught up in each other after Grant is roped into taking care of Hepburn's leopards. The two have an excellent on-screen chemistry, and both deliver their lines with comedic timing that works perfectly.

The film is consistently reliable on physical comedy, and most of the sight gags are hysterical. The film hangs on a little bit too long in the end, in a jail scene that is much less funny after an hour and a half of similar slapstick comedy than it might have been earlier in the film, and the film's absurd situational additions tend to come back to bite it when it takes them so long to clear the problem up. But Hepburn and Grant carry the film well, especially with their antics and endearing charms, and to be quite honest, Bringing Up Baby is one of the funnier films I've seen in quite a while, even with its childish reliance on trips and falls. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why it's so likable.


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