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A Major Disappointment

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The "road" series is at its best in the third installment that proves that the third time is the charm. Stranded after the boat they've stowed away on blows up (caused by Hope's smoking in the boiler room), they end up where all the old hour glasses are emptied out. This has a great title song that a sets the whole thing up, getting polite digs into Paramount and the censors, making predictions of running into Dorothy Lamour, and introducing hope and Crosby to a friendly camel, as well as the spirit of Hope's late aunt, played like Hope looking very much like Charley's aunt.As usual, Lamour is in distress, a princess in search of a prince, or at least a temporary one to marry her in predictions of an ancient curse. Lavish sets, inside tongue in cheek jokes and Hope getting to make time with Crosby's best gal. There's non stop laughs, action and the occasional song, especially a reprise of "Moonlight Becomes You" where the trio switch singing voices and imitate each other's styles.The return of Anthony Quinn from the first film provides the action, with cute Dona Drake as Lamour's lady in waiting. Another very funny moment has hope pretending to be retarded in order to get free food with a laugh out loud encounter with the shop keeper. This is the gag a minute movie that I would rank among the funniest films ever made. Of the remainder of the series, only the follow-up ("Utopia") came close with the others all amusing but not nearly as finny as this.

You can't go into a viewing of any Hope and Crosby picture expecting a strong story or plot,nor should you expect the acting to be great.Bob Hope's true strength was stand up comedy,not acting,and I think he knew that.That's why we only saw him in roles where he could be pretty much rely on his stand up skills.Bing Crosby,on the other hand,had a knack for acting even though he was primarily a singer.In fact,his knack won him an Oscar two years after he did this film,so you know he took it seriously.Since Hope's acting skills were not strong,I thing that Bing saw these films they did together as a chance to relax and have a little fun,and to take a break from the seriousness of the acting profession.Despite their contrasting talents,there is no denying the great chemistry that existed between the pair,which makes Road to Morocco fun to watch.Also,if I may add,Dorothy Lamour and Dona Drake are also fun to watch,but for a different reason.I suppose that's just the typical male in me talking. ;-)

I'll give it a two because it has a lot of music, otherwise it would be a one.I saw this movie for the first time tonight and it's the first "Road" picture I've seen. I was expecting waaaaay better. Robert Osborn says this is the best of the Road movies. If that's true I needn't bother to see the others. The best thing about this movie is that it has a lot of songs in the first half, but that's balanced out by only one production number with dancing in the entire movie.I didn't like the movie. Neither Hope nor Crosby came across all that well, their characters weren't very charming, the movie was not funny at all, most of the dialog was just lame filler, there wasn't much action, there wasn't much spectacle.The movie wasn't what I expected. I was expecting more "Road," but there isn't much. They quickly make it to the palace and then most of the movie takes place there, until the end. I was also expecting a lot more of the famous "road" style of breaking the fourth wall, wherein the characters talk directly to the audience or comment on the plot. There was only about 4 instances of that. One of those is an example of the non-funny humor of this script:(Hope recaps the plot up to now to Crosby) Crosby: I know all that! Hope: Yeah but the people that came in half-way through the picture don't. Crosby: You mean they missed my song?Those are two weak punchlines, but at least they are actually jokes. Much of the rest of the script doesn't even have any jokes. An example is: Crosby: Remind me to throw you a piece of cheese in the morning. (Indirectly calling Hope a rat).That's not funny at all, it barely even qualifies as a joke, but that's the kind of non-joke dialog that carries most of the movie. Many of the scenes don't even come that close to a joke, just using generic uninteresting dialog like:Crosby: Hey, whadda ya' take me for? You think that you can just throw me to the dogs? Hope: Well why not, you did it to me didn't you? Crosby: Yeah but that's because I was lookin' out for us. You're not lookin' out for nobody. Hope: Oh yeah? Well then why did I pay the check?(the above is just from my memory. It's not exact but it illustrates to you what I mean).And so on....just generic dialog with no jokes at all.My grade: A waste of time.

Talk about being politically incorrect, this movie is bound to offend a lot of people today, with its portrayals of villainous Arabs, but try to realize this 1942 movie was a parody of every Arabian adventure cliché since the silent era. Any movie that has a pair of camels discussing the foolishness of humans, with the female camel speaking in a Katherine Hepburn accent, is obviously not taking itself too seriously.Crosby comes off as more of a bad hat than usual, since he actually sells Bob Hope into slavery temporarily, but it isn't long before the boys are fighting over the affections of a lovely Princess, and things are back to normal.I saw this film for the first time in the late Seventies at college, and a group of Arab exchange students from Kuwait were highly amused at the chase scene through the harem, with Anthony Quinn apparently speaking genuine Arabic to his henchmen, interspersed with English dialog. They took it in good humor, recognizing the unreal, deliberately absurd nature of the story, especially in a picture that was thirty odd years old at the time.Personally, I think there are funnier movies in the Road series, but Road to Morocco is pretty amusing if you appreciate the unique Hope and Crosby style of casual ad lib humor; not to mention the stunning beauty and comedic gifts of Dorothy Lamour,