Even the usually overlooked Zeppo has one great scene in ANIMAL CRACKERS. As Groucho dictates a letter to him, Zeppo asks him absurd questions. "How do you spell 'semi-colon?". Of course, Groucho has an answer - "Make it a comma." One of Zeppo's true shining moments comes when Groucho asks him to read the letter back. "You said a lot of things here that I didn't think were important," he says to a stunned Groucho, "so I just omitted them." As Marx scholar Joe Adamson noted in his book GROUCHO, HARPO, CHICO AND SOMETIMES ZEPPO, only a Marx Brother could do that to another Marx Brother and get away with it.
ANIMAL CRACKERS is a collection of hilarious scenes that runs out of steam about fifteen minutes before the movie ends. Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby were the masters of the catchy ditty, but "Why Am I So Romantic?", this movies catchy ditty, shows up near the end of the film, and with Harpo immediately reprising it on his harp, the song grinds the proceedings to a complete stop, and it never really recovers. However, that flaw aside, ANIMAL CRACKERS remains one of the Marx Brothers funniest films.
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