It seems that I've made it to my last "Invisible" film for a while. And it's one that I was looking forward to because Bud & Lou have never failed to entertain me. Abbott & Costello movies used to come on weekly when I was a kid, so seeing them again is like revisiting people that I haven't seen in a long time.
The standard Abbott & Costello gags are here as well as some new ones and they work as usual. I don't know why they felt the need to change the names of Bud & Lou in these movies, because I'd rather just believe that the same duo are getting into a new set of hijinks movie after movie after movie. Worked for The Three Stooges, right?
The Invisible Man in this one is a boxer who's been framed. Despite his rough and tough attitude (you know, because he's a boxer), he's very patient with the bumbling private detectives that are helping him. (When they aren't trying to turn him in to the police.) We also get a Claude Rains reference here that connects this movie to the original Invisible Man. Thankfully, unlike Dr. Griffin from the first movie, Dr. Gray does manage to find a cure for the invisibility. And what timing too since boxer, Tommy Nelson had just managed to clear his name.
This has long been my second favorite Abbott & Costello movie. And if ever there was an Abbott & Costello movie that I feel could be reworked and remade, it's this one.
GRADE: B
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