i must have seen a different film!!

Excellent but underrated film

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

"Blockheads" was a huge return to form for Stan and Ollie after the film "The Bohemian Girl" was met with a bit of disappointment. The above film was a case of going back to basics and the boys were back on top where they belonged! Stan and Ollie are soldiers in the First World War and Stan volunteers to stand guard alone. However, he still there on guard about 20 years later! He is declared a war hero and Ollie invites Stan home for a meal with Mrs. Hardy. Unfortunately, this doesn't go according to plan....... Silent film comedian Harry Langdon wrote some of the gags and he deserves credit in helping to make "Blockheads" one of the funniest films from Laurel and Hardy. Billy Gilbert makes a welcome return appearance as a big game hunter and James Finlayson appears as someone who provokes Ollie into an argument. The flights of stairs that were used for this film are put to very good comic use. I loved every minute of this film.

What a great movie. Oliver plays the henpecked husband (the wives are always gun toting, nasty women) who goes to buy his wife an anniversary present. In the newspaper he sees a story of a U.S. Soldier who stayed at his post for twenty years after Armistice. No one told him the war was over. Ollie recognizes him immediately and goes to see him at the soldiers home. He decides to bring him home and his wife goes ballistic, leaving the two of them to destroy the place. There are some of the funniest scenes ever in this movie which also features Billy Gilbert as a jealous husband big game hunter who has a pretty wife. As the world comes crashing down around them for about the fiftieth time, things couldn't get worse--or could they? Excellent plot and wonderful execution by these gems of the cinema.

this one from 1938 has it all...funny storyline, funny lines, "black magic" bits, "schizophrenic wife".....all fall down, all the way.Stan was never alerted that WW1 ended, so he dutifully stays at his post. Finally arrives back in the good ole USA and finds peace at the Old Soldier's Home. Ollie hooks up with his old pal...and happily brings him home to meet the Wife.No more needed at this time. Is it their last last classic? or a Lost classic? you decide! I think A CHUMP AT OXFORD is the last great one but CHUMP is just pure L & H.Buy this DVD!

There's nothing rough-edged about this feature film. By this stage of their careers, Laurel and Hardy knew pretty much exactly what they were doing, and it works as well here as anywhere else.It's 1917, World War I, and Hardy and the rest go over the top while Laurel is left behind in the trench to guard his post until relieved. Laurel is forgotten by the Army.Twenty years pass and Laurel sticks to his daily routine, marching back and forth in the trench, throwing his empty bean can on a mountain of empty cans. Finally he's discovered and taken to an Army hospital in Los Angeles, where he winds up squirming into an amputees wheelchair so that it appears that he has lost a leg.Hardy sees Laurel's photo in the newspaper and rushes to the hospital. Seeing Laurel with only one leg, Hardy offers to carry him home and give him a good meal. In the movie's funniest scene, Hardy is hefting the compliant but stupid Laurel along the sidewalk. At one point Hardy drops his hat, falls down trying to retrieve it. Laurel gets to his feet, helps Hardy up, hops back into Hardy's arms, and the trek continues all the way to the car before Hardy realizes what's up.Back at the apartment, the Army theme is dropped and it becomes a familiar tale of Hardy getting mixed up with his own wife and a pretty next-door neighbor who is married to a blustering big game hunter. "I don't bring 'em back alive. I bring 'em back dead. I come back alive!" It's certainly one of their better features.