This film could have been hilarious, especially with Guy Kibbee and Virginia Weidler stealing the show as the father and sister to Ann Rutherford, recently wed in the film to the dashing Robert Sterling.
Instead of tackling the major theme of the film, a father-in-law's interference in the business that he takes the son-in-law in, we're subjected to other subplots about hats, frivolous arguments, and a young girl trying to impress another sister's beau.
The film does get better when it concentrates on the theme stated above. However, it's the process of getting to that theme that steers the film off.
Kibbeed could have been a seer and his wife the real knowledgeable one. Weidler, as the youngest daughter, acts like a tom-boy like character and Ann Rutherford could have wished for that small part back in "Gone With the Wind," as Scarlett O'Hara's sister.
Instead of tackling the major theme of the film, a father-in-law's interference in the business that he takes the son-in-law in, we're subjected to other subplots about hats, frivolous arguments, and a young girl trying to impress another sister's beau.
The film does get better when it concentrates on the theme stated above. However, it's the process of getting to that theme that steers the film off.
Kibbeed could have been a seer and his wife the real knowledgeable one. Weidler, as the youngest daughter, acts like a tom-boy like character and Ann Rutherford could have wished for that small part back in "Gone With the Wind," as Scarlett O'Hara's sister.