I admit it: I'm a big baby when it comes to loving the films of Laurel and Hardy, and apart from their last movie when they were both frankly past it, there is always enough sweetness and surreal moments in most of their shorts and features to charm the most sour-faced amongst us. This one finds Stan still guarding his foxhole in France twenty years after the war has ended. When brought back home, Ollie seeks him out to take him to meet the wife and enjoy one of her fabulous meals. Needless to say nothing works out as planned with Ollie's flat being blown up, his wife walking out, and the tootsie from across the hall losing her clothes and being hidden from both her husband and Ollie's wife disguised as an easy chair! That's only the crunch of the story which takes in Ollie thinking Stan has lost a leg, his car being buried under a truckload of dirt, Stan smoking a pipe that isn't there, and a shlepp up and down thirteen flights of stairs for no good reason. But one doesn't watch "The Boys" if one is looking for reason or rationality.
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