Basically, this is a longer version of a two-reel Hal Roach short that picks up where the much funnier "Miss Polly" leaves off. (The two films have been re-edited together as one for TV Broadcast under the title "Miss Polly"; only the first half of that is amusing. Try to catch the first half in its initial edit, and forget about this one.) The other issue is that the characters have entirely different names and weren't even romantically interested in each other in the first film. After turning their hometown upside down in the first film (or half, depending on whatever version you see), Zasu Pitts and Slim Summerville are married and head to Niagra Falls where they encounter Joan Woodbury and Tom Brown whom they think are newlyweds having a marital spat. Summerville goes off his rocker trying to get the (non) couple back together and is unable to listen to them in finding out the truth that Brown stopped to help Woodbury on the road and ended up squabbling with them on their way to the hotel. Obnoxious Summerville tries to play "Shot Gun Honeymoon" on them while Pitts, in her own inimitable way, frets over her lack of a honeymoon. The hotel finds out that an unmarried couple has registered, and that's where the film basically lags to an uneventful conclusion. The whole film is pointless and would avoid being reviewed or rated had it been an actual short than coming in at a "featurette" length of 47 minutes.
Even in the worst of his two reel comedies, Hal Roach did better work. Too bad they didn't finally get Pitts and Summerville back together at the end in a scene where Pitts sighs her usual "Oh, dear" right after Summerville turns out the light.
Even in the worst of his two reel comedies, Hal Roach did better work. Too bad they didn't finally get Pitts and Summerville back together at the end in a scene where Pitts sighs her usual "Oh, dear" right after Summerville turns out the light.