Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

RoosterCogburn The plot is based on the multiple alternation of the Hubert Hawkins (played by Grand Danny Kaye). He is a fairy-tale comedian who serves in the "Black Fox" troop. The "Black Fox" is a narcotic Robin Hood-Persiflage on the Eroll Flynn representation. Hubert falls into the palace of the lion through adverse circumstances. There he is thought to be Giacomo, the "King of Jesters and Jester of Kings". He takes this role to preserve his identity. Only Giacomo is actually a mission killer and for Ravenhorst (splendidly silly and demonic: Basil Rathbone) eliminate the reigning king. However, there are still the true heirs.I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right? - Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace! The film unfolds the unique joke in its incredible shaking rhymes. I love it. Danny Kaye in top shape.

Luis Guillermo Cardona Few films so I left good impression on children as this which he stars, Danny Kaye, with so much grace and charm. His colorful setting, as effective as the best fairy tale, the elegant costumes that glow in each character, and his humorous situations, amid all the hubbub for putting on the throne to the rightful heir and bring the same to the licentious usurper fully entertained me and made me crave years later to see her again and hopefully have it in my files. And now, the liberal target, the occasion provided me nicely, I see with eyes full of nostalgia, as it preserves the visual magic and much of the charm of this pleasant film. And I have never laugh laughter with "hard" evidence for knighthood to our beloved buffoon. He also smiled at length with the fight at the Palace between the king's men and the Lilliputians of the forest. And I enjoyed the best with a delicious tangle of the pill in the cup with mortar.The film is still without objection, although, at times - now that adults play at being analytical -, we have to pretend to be a blind eye to the simplicity with which certain situations are resolved. But in a comedy, sustainable thesis is always permissive, and one does not repair, so hard, if the output of the hero is because of his wit or excessive clumsiness imposed on their rivals. "THE COURT JESTER", get get us full in his colorful scenery and much appreciated in the intricacies of impersonating a buffoon who was expected as a calculating murderer. We look forward to the barefoot Jean (an attractive Glynnis Johns) eager to help the commoner than has been in love. Again we prepare for the cold and cruel stratagems of Basil Rathbone, the adversary par excellence of so many heroes swordsmen. And Angela Lansbury, very young, very graceful looks like Princess Gwendoline, a man eager for the start of forced marriage to being prepared.Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the duo director of this film - and some others as "Above and Beyond" or "Knock on wood" - is here, for us, is perhaps his best, his work as writers discounted where harvested various successes. Her spark for irony, for the visual humor and more accommodating to the atmosphere, is very thinly settled here.

CINEMINTZ-1 Inspired silliness from the team of Melvin Panama and Norman Frank starring Danny Kaye in probably his Finest Hour Plus. Definitely derivative of Adventures of Robin Hood in more ways than one with Rathbone as a villain almost equal to the one he played in that enduring Classic. But like comparing Young Frankenstein(74) with either Bride of Frankenstein or the Original Frankenstein(31),certainly there is certainly more comic interplay in Court Jester and it is definitely great on a lower level but the originals are still overall preferred. Whereas The Bride ,Frank(31) and Robin Hood deserve the highest rating,Court Jester is just a step below. Still there are not many scenes as memorable and hilarious as the pellet-pallet tongue twister scene which is as strong as the Marx brothers classics,though overall it is probably not quite the comic masterpiece as Duck Soup,Night at the Opera and even Horse feathers and Day at the Races are. As entertainment value goes it definitely delivers and probably belongs with the very best Comic Adventures ever made. Glynis Johns is as fine a romantic heroine and the use of dwarfs is almost on par with the Wizard of Oz.

moonspinner55 Plushly-produced, well-directed and cast spoofing of knights and swordsmen spectacles has a disparate forest tribe in medieval England opposing the royal kingdom, sending Danny Kaye into the castle as an infiltrator under the guise of a jester. Fairly smart comedic vehicle for Danny allows the star to shine in several funny set-pieces despite a script which loses tracks of its own sub-plots. The celebrated "chalice from the palace" routine is nearly rendered inconsequential when nothing is ever done with the chalice, however the infrequent songs are amusingly interspersed with the action and the ing players (including wonderful Glynis Johns as Maid Jean, Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury) are very colorful. Energetic without being frantic, and memorably pleasant. **1/2 from ****