Ship A Hooey!

When I watch comedies, I can often suspend disbelief and accept a dumb premise. But when they come one after another after another, you know you're going to be in for a rough ride. Such as it is watching "Ship A Hooey!"!

When the story begins, a sailor sneaks a lady aboard his submarine...which really makes no sense at all. Soon, other nonsensical plot elements are introduced...such as a sailor donning the woman's clothes and the sailors suddenly believing it's a lady. Bobby Vernon was not a macho looking guy...but clearly looked like a guy. What also was really dumb was when the woman was crying loudly...and one of the sailors pretended it was him crying...when anyone with half a brain would see it couldn't be him. The bottom line is that although the film has some decent actors in it, the writing in this Al Christie production is poor to say the least.

To put the quality of this short in perspective, around the same time Laurel & Hardy made such naval comedies as "Two Tars" and "Men 'O War"...and they are STILL enjoyable and great fun....so why not just watch them and skip this third-rate comedy?