"Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" is what Oliver Hardy would say to Stan Laurel whenever they both were in figurative hot water. Well, this movie was a nice mess their boss, Hal Roach, managed to get them into by loaning them to M-G-M, the studio that distributed the Roach films at the time, for this! L & H are some of the few comic gems in the movie especially when they do the "egg battle" sequence with Lupe Velez. They're top-billed here but they're not the stars. That goes for next-billed Jimmy Durante playing a movie star known for Tarzan-like movies. Yes, that plays as ridiculous as it sounds as some of the scenes involving that premise is pretty funny. But the movie takes breaks from that plot to showcase some interesting numbers, as well as showcase Ted Healy and his Stooges-Moe, Larry, and Curly. After this movie, Healy and those Stooges would split with Ted remaining at Leo the Lion's studio and his former Stooges going to Columbia doing short subjects that would be rerun in perpetuity to the present day! Oh, and also Mickey Mouse makes a rare appearance outside of the Disney studio and intros the Technicolor cartoon called Hot Chocolate Soldiers which was pretty entertaining. In summary, Hollywood Party was an interesting hodgepodge of scenes that may or may not amuse you depending on your mood for such material...