ROAD TO BALI (1952) **1/2 Relentlessly silly and well meaning. Well, to the extent that there's any meaning at all. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby have no intention other than to entertain, and it helps that they find themselves so amusing. Bunch of skits only tenuously connected, which works fine because there's always something entirely different around the corner. Not anarchic so much as disjointed, and willfully so. In a film in which Bob and Bing kiss, marry each other, and sleep together, it's probably appropriate that Dorothy Lamour is the straight man. She worked well in the road films: she isn't comedic competition, she's friendly enough, and her demands don't appear to have much to do with dialogue. The musical interludes are lame, but they're better filler than bad gags would have been. The gags are actually of a fairly high standard, considering the sources, and admirably original.
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