Two inept vaudevillians (Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in another of the seven "Road" pictures they made together) come across as two Hollywood egomaniacs making insider wisecracks and acting goofy between production numbers of dubious quality. The smart and suave idiots shtick wears thin faster than the Three Stooges, who at least never pretended to be anything but idiots. The Andrews Sisters deliver one of their less memorable screen appearances singing "You Don't Have to Know the Language," the Wiere Brothers make for a weird novelty act doing "Batuque Nio Morro" or "Jam Session in the HIlls," and lovely Dorothy Lamour sings a couple of forgettable songs. But the topper in this silly film is Crosby and Hope behaving very queerly (pun intnded), in the bedroom scene with "two grooms and no bride."
Review of Road to Rio
