I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

As Good As It Gets

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Admittedly there are some slow spots in this one, but overall it is one of my favs.Some have said this is one of their weaker shorts. Comedy is always very subjective so I respect their opinions. But I don't agree.The central joke here is that Ethel The Human Chimpanzee is just that: Human! Finn says in the introduction that she reads, dances, plays cards and milks a cow! About the only thing she can't do is speak. A perfect foil for the two of the screens most adroit physical comedians. Of course she is a guy in a gorilla suit. It is a farce. It's not supposed to be logical or realistic. We are all in on the joke and that is what makes it so funny.The gorilla gets her share of laughs here sharing the spotlight with Stan and Ollie. The boys and Ethel finally settle down and try to go to sleep. Ollie turns out the light, and Ethel turns it back on. The big ape is apparently afraid of the dark! At one point, after witnessing the boys non-stop ineptitude, Ethel displays a dismissive hand gesture that says: "you guys are hopeless".You just have to suspend belief to get the most out of The Chimp.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history, and deservedly so, so I am happy to see any of their films. At a performing circus, all the acts are entering the arena, including the big attraction, Ethel the Human Chimpanzee, while Stan and Ollie are just helping Destructo The Cannonball King (Tiny Sandford) with his act. After the boys collapse the arena tent with an early lighting of the cannon, the Circus Owner (William J. O'Brien) says he is broke, and to pay the circus staff, he is giving them a valuable part of the show to look after. Pulling the names out of a hat, Ollie ends up looking after Ethel, and Stan is looking after the flea circus, but it seems only Stan can get Ethel to do what she is told, she gets mad with Ollie telling her what to do. Trying to get Ethel tied up into a crate, Stan manages to get the lion, MGM, chasing after them, and after it looks like they got away, the find a hotel room to stay the night, until they can sell Ethel to a zoo. Joe the Landlord (Billy Gilbert) isn't happy with the boys bringing in a monkey to a room, so after avoiding the lion once again, they disguise her in Ollie's clothes to sneak her inside, and then Stan would chuck down his clothes. Unfortunately, tossing the clothes Stan and Ethel fall out the window, so they lock her in a near large box, without realising a side is missing. The boys are sleeping in the double bed, until Stan moves to a single, and Ethel manages to sneak into the room and make Ollie think he is still sleeping with a fidgeting Stan. After waking and making Ethel move to the cloak room, Ollie joins Stan in his bed, where they start itching, and realise the flea circus has escaped. In another room, a man puts on his record player, playing some piano music, and Ethel in her tutu starts doing some ballet dancing, getting Stan to join her. Joe manages to hear the boys shouting the name "Ethel", and he thinks they are shouting the name of his wife, so he goes to get her. Joe soon sees his real wife (Martha Sleeper) come in, and she screams and runs seeing their Ethel, and when Joe shouts for them to get out, the monkey steals his gun, and the film ends with her shooting all over the place. Also starring James Finlayson as Ringmaster. Filled with good slapstick and all classic comedy you want from a black and white film, it is an enjoyable film. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were number 7 on The Comedians' Comedian. Worth watching!

It's really difficult to rate this movie. The movie beginning very promising and solid but soon descents to a lower level, due to some improbable moments and dragging humor.Reason why I still decided to rate this movie a 7 is due to the first halve of the movie which is set in a circus. The humor and slapstick moments in the first halve are extremely well placed and executed by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Also the presence of James Finlayson as the ringmaster is a reason to consider this movie an above average Laurel & Hardy picture. Finlayson delivers some fine comical lines in this movie and adds to the amusement level of the movie.The second part of the movie in which the boys have a some mishaps with their chimp (a guy in a monkey-suit) too often gets too ridicules and simple to consider it funny all of the time. The humor is for most part dragging, also because of this very reason. Definitely not Laurel & Hardy finest moment.The first halve and some other minor things still however make sure that this movie is an above, although slightly, average movie from Laurel & Hardy by director James Parrott, who in the same year also directed the far more classic Laurel & Hardy short movie; "The Music Box".Entertaining enough but could had been far more classic, if the rest of the movie was just as good and solid as the first halve.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

This is not amongst my favourites of the many Laurel and Hardy shorts I have seen, but it was a perfectly passable short subject. James Finlayson as ever is a boon of a presence; making a brilliant foil to the pair. Laurel and Hardy are as wonderful as ever, though possibly a slight weariness is evident; the antics here being so very similar to many other of their shorts. What especially enervates this film are the early, possibly all too brief, sequences in the circus; to see, largely in atmospheric long shot, the great duo comically spoiling the planned circus gags, only to create new ones in their bungling, is a wonderful spectacle. The spatial atmosphere given by a visible audience - though amusingly small - is quite a refreshing dichotomy; the performance-within-a-performance air of this section is beautiful to watch. Yes, things slip towards far more laboured chimp-related gags, but this is professional stuff; Laurel and Hardy executing the comedy finely. It does tend towards going through the motions, but, cripes, this is the funniest and most loved double act of all, on screen for our benefit. And thus, it's a film more laudable than so many.Rating:- *** 1/2/*****