Must've been decades since i've last seen a Marx Brothers film, probably a german dubbed version on television back then, which tends to be pure poison to comedies relying on lots of dialogue. I didn't remember their "anything goes"-brand of comedy to be this random, wild and disjointed - maximally elaborate and dumb at the same time. For what it is, i love it to bits. Calling this one an anti-war movie is kinda stretching the term though. We all came for the comedy anyway, not so much for its message - "The Great Dictator" this certainly isn't, but that doesn't prevent me from getting tons upon tons of stupid enjoyment out of this thing.