Here Comes Trouble: A messy, charming bit of 1930s fluff

Is it worth your time?

If you have a soft spot for movies where everyone talks way too fast and people are constantly running in and out of hotel rooms, then sure, give it a go. It’s barely over an hour, which is a mercy.

But if you need a plot that actually hangs together or characters who act like real human beings? Stay away. You’ll be pulling your hair out by the second act.

Here Comes Trouble is one of those movies that exists purely to fill a slot on a Saturday afternoon schedule. It feels like the writers just threw a bunch of slapstick ideas into a blender and hit pulse until it resembled a script.

Donovan is our guy, and honestly, he’s lucky he’s still breathing. He gets stuck holding a lighter full of ice—jewelry, I mean—and the rest is just people shouting at each other in hallways.

Odd little moments

• There’s a scene involving a cigarette lighter that takes about three minutes too long to set up. I kept checking my watch.
• The dialogue is so snappy it actually becomes exhausting. Nobody in real life talks like this, but I guess that’s the point.
• I’m still not sure why the villains are so bad at their jobs. Maybe they were tired?

It reminds me a bit of the chaotic energy in Something for Nothing, though this one feels even more frantic. The pacing is just relentless, like the editor was afraid if they stopped cutting for a second, the whole thing would fall apart.

Maybe it would have.

Is it a classic? Not even close. But there's something weirdly likable about how little it cares about being 'good.' It just wants to be busy. It hits a level of silliness that makes it easy to watch while you're doing dishes or folding laundry.

Don't look for depth. There isn't any. Just watch the faces on the screen—everyone looks like they’re having a mildly stressful time, which is probably accurate to the production itself.

Sometimes you need a movie that doesn't ask anything of you. This is that movie. It’s thin, it’s loud, and it’s over before you can get annoyed at the lack of logic. A total breeze. 🌬️