Movie Crazy (1932)

You won't be disappointed!

Good movie but grossly overrated

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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

Stars and directed by Harold Lloyd. (brother Gaylord Lloyd was assistant director, just to keep it all in the family.) Regular guy Harold Hall wants to get into showbiz, and when there's a mixup in the photos, he is on his way to a screen-test. It's a harold lloyd comedy, so there are mixups, falls, smashups, and unspoken gags all along the way. Unlike Lloyd, Constance Cummings had just broken into hollywood, so this is one of her earlier roles as "Mary". Many old-timey actors in uncredited roles as "dinner guest" listed in the cast list. The broken glass door gag and some of the other bits got a bit annoying, but over-all, it's quite good. Fun to see Lloyd at the top of his game... he had done silents for YEARS, but came out of favor, and didn't make so many talkies. Just for laughs, in the cast list, Arthur Housman is listed as "customer who didn't order rabbit".

Yet more proof that Harold Lloyd was a much better silent comedian than a sound one.In "Movie Crazy," Lloyd plays Harold, a star-struck country boy who, due to a case of (sort of) mistaken identity, lands a screen test in Hollywood. He falls for both a starlet (an engaging Constance Cummings) and a sexy Spanish actress, not realizing that the Spanish actress is really Cummings herself playing a character in a movie. The film could have been a major entry in the "movies about making movies" genre, but it instead opts for blandness and convention. It's not very funny; Lloyd and his collaborators seemed to think that there was no place in a sound film for Lloyd's remarkable acrobatics and physical comedy antics, the things that made his silent films so much fun, but they don't replace them with anything but scene after scene of sluggishly paced, wooden dialogue.Grade: C-

This is a good comedy, possibly Harold Lloyd's best sound movie, and it features a very nice pairing of Lloyd with Constance Cummings. It's also interesting and entertaining as a light commentary on the movie industry of its day, and the ways that it was perceived. The extreme eagerness of Lloyd's character to break into the movies is interwoven with the main romantic plot in some clever ways.The story has Lloyd's character leaving his Kansas home and heading to Hollywood, where he winds up having a chaotic and very funny romance with a star actress played by Cummings. There are a lot of funny gag ideas, some very nice scenes between the two stars, and quite a bit more, capped off by the kind of funny, exciting set piece that you always hope for as the finale in one of Lloyd's movies.Cummings is very appealing and enjoyable, and she has a lot of good material to work with, as the script sets up a good contrast between her screen character and her real personality. This contrast is used very creatively in the plot, and the effect is aided considerably by how well Cummings and Lloyd work together in all of their scenes. The actress's affectionate nickname of 'Trouble' for Lloyd's character works well, too. Their interplay is the best part of a good comedy that also has a lot of other things working for it.

Harold Hall is a man who desperately wants to be an actor.Soon he is off to Hollywood.They are expecting somebody who doesn't look anything like Harold, because he accidentally sent a wrong photo.In Hollywood Harold causes lots of trouble and falls in love to an actress named Mary Sears.Movie Crazy is a hilarious comedy from 1932.Harold Lloyd shows that he wasn't the master of silent movies only, he could handle talkies too.He runs from a funny situation to another.Constance Cummings is brilliant as Mary.She does her job just as good as Harold does.This movie made me laugh many times.If a comedy movie does that, then that's a good comedy.