Wedding Worries (1941) User Reviews

One of the good MGM Our Gang shorts

[dbborroughs · 6/10 · 11 November 2009]

Darla's dad is due to be remarried. the gang decides that this is a bad idea (they've clearly read Cinderella one time too many.) and they set about to sabotage the wedding. After a couple of tries they they come up with a means that leaves everyone laughing.

Darla says good bye in story in which she really doesn't play that big a role. Most of the craziness comes from the boys who try their best to cause the worst and make sure that Darla is spared. Its an amusing little film that actually makes one do more than smile at the antics of the gang. Unlike most of the other MGM shorts in the series this one is nicely focused on one story and it makes for an entertaining ten minutes.

Recommended

Fear of a stepmother with no lines

[kpetnews · 6/10 · 23 February 2013]

Apart from the unlikely setup of 13-year-old Spanky believing Froggy's story of an actual Big Bad Wolf, this is one of the funnier MGM shorts. Spanky, Mickey et al set to sabotage Darla's father's remarriage, because it will result in a stepmother and we all know what they're like from fairy tales. The final scene involving adults and "laughing gas" makes the short, in addition to the ultimate payoff. We can be glad that MGM forewent the usual preachy moral lesson this time.

As stated, this is Darla's last appearance in the Our Gang series. She'd outgrown the role about five shorts ago (but then again, so had Spanky) and towered over everyone else. Without Alfalfa, Butch or Waldo, no one knew what to do with her anyway, leading to her inexplicable presence in "Robot Wrecks". At least here she sets the plot in motion.

Darla's last...and a really dopey gag.

[planktonrules · 5/10 · 1 March 2019]

This short was produced by MGM as an Our Gang comedy. Up until 1938, the films were made by Hal Roach and were generally funnier and more enjoyable. However, MGM bought the rights to the series and continued making them until 1944. Like many of the later shorts, this one stars Froggy, Mickey (Robert Blake), Spanky and Darla. This was Darla's final appearance in the series.

Darla's father is a widower and he's going to remarry. So, she invites the gang to come to the wedding. But there's a problem...Froggy is convinced that ALL step-mothers are like the ones in fairy tales and he warns the gang not to trust her! So, when the wedding occurs the gang do what they can to disrupt the ceremony!

So is it any good? Well, like all the MGM-produced Our Gang shorts, it's quite short. Also, the laughing gas gag is incredibly lame...unfunny and a bit stupid. I did enjoy seeing them all get spanked at the end...too bad Alfalfa wasn't in this one.

The Gang sabotages a wedding in Darla Hood's last and final Our Gang apperance!!!!

[bandcrsh · 12 August 2003]

This is an amazing short, The Gang sabotages Darla's father's wedding, and this episode also marked Our Gang sweetheart Darla Hood's last and final apperance. This episode was released on December 13th, 1941(nearly one week after the Pearl Harbor bombing). I give this short **********out of**********.

Wedding Worries marked the final Our Gang short for Darla Hood

[tavm · 5/10 · 29 January 2015]

This M-G-M comedy short, Wedding Worries, is the two hundred third entry in the "Our Gang" series and the one hundred fifteenth talkie. Darla's widowed father is getting married again and Darla is thrilled. The rest of the gang seem to be as well...until Froggy mentions a certain fairy tale story about how mean stepmothers are which convinces the gang to sabotage the wedding by any means necessary. Okay, there are quite some funny scenes like the "laughing gas" sequence and I also liked Froggy mixing various fairy tale wolves as one particular one but, as Leonard Maltin and Richard W. Bann pointed out in their Our Gang filmography book, this short doesn't make much sense especially since Darla isn't at all unhappy during the whole thing. And the ending, while amusing, isn't really something kids would consider enjoying watching since their counterparts on screen are the target of the irate adults! In summary, Wedding Worries is worth a look and nothing more. P.S. This was Darla Hood's last OG short. She would go on to a singing and voice-over career the rest of her life. One of her post-Rascal highlights was being a guest on "The Jack Benny Program" during the early sixties when she sang and played herself in the show's Our Gang parody. Her career came full circle in 1979 when she-and Stymie Beard-participated doing voices in "The Little Rascals' Christmas Special" with Ms. Hood voicing the mother of Spanky and Porky. But she died on June 13, 1979 at 47 of hepatitis, months before the special aired. This marked the first time I read of the death of an Our Gang member when I saw the item on the back of a section of a New Orleans paper. The second time was when I read of Stymie's in Newsweek two years later...