Rotten Tomatoes

Movies / TV

    Celebrity

      No Results Found

       View All       Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

      Pardon My Sarong

      1942 1h 24m Comedy List
      Reviews 58% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Two Chicago bus drivers (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) land on a Pacific isle with natives and crooks. Read More Read Less

      Critics Reviews

      View All (2) Critics Reviews
      Denis Saurat Guardian It has amusing sequences in that peculiar vein of lunacy which is the original Abbott-Costello trade-mark, but like the rest it pads them out with dreary passages of knockabout farce. Jun 4, 2021 Full Review Jose Maria Santos Cine-Mundial Abbott and Costello are very funny as always. [Full Review in Spanish] Sep 18, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

      Audience Reviews

      View All (15) audience reviews
      Steve D Amusing but not their best. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Slow at the beginning, but gets better as it goes on. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Very interesting and funny entry in the series. It has great jokes and a great plot about Abbott and Costello being trapped on an island with a tribe who wants to kill them. One of the funniest in the series. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Amiable and meandering comedy starring Abbott and Costello which is just a bunch of bits strung onto a typically ridiculous plot. The boys are bus drivers who hijack their own city bus to help out a society bachelor who needs to get from Chicago to California for a yacht race. Soon, the law is after them -- in the form of William Demarest (a Preston Sturges favourite); they duck into a magician's dressing room to escape (cue hijinks). We are then treated to a few musical interludes (including from The Ink Spots) in the club, which was common in 1940s films of this type and gives them a relaxed feel. Soon, though, Costello drives the bus into the ocean and the duo winds up on the playboy's yacht, and subsequently shipwrecked on a tropical isle. There they run into beautiful or burly natives, an anthropologist who is really running a gang of jewel thieves, and some more slapstick and wordplay. Of course, given the vintage, there are some pretty crude caricatures on display here but fortunately the racism isn't mean-spirited (but unfortunately it is still racism) - Lou Costello is typically the butt of most gags. The sexism is probably more unabashed and there is a fair amount of leering (1940s style). But if you feel disposed to look past these things (which we can hope are moving behind us, at least overtly), then there are a bunch of chuckles here and everything feels pretty good-natured. One of A & C's better outings. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the funnier, maybe even the best, A&C's. It followed them almost the whole time, as how these films should. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A nice little comedy that never gets old, no matter how many times you watch it. The Dynamic Duo show us all why they are the greatest comedians of all time. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

      Cast & Crew

      Show Less Cast & Crew Show More Cast & Crew

      Photos

      View All Pardon My Sarong photos

      Pardon My Sarong

      Pardon My Sarong (1942) Pardon My Sarong (1942) Pardon My Sarong (1942) Pardon My Sarong (1942) View more photos

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Two Chicago bus drivers (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) land on a Pacific isle with natives and crooks.
      Director
      Erle C. Kenton
      Production Co
      Universal/Universal Int
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 24m