Like a live action Tex Avery cartoon, the music is catchy, the dancing can be spectacular and most importantly the jokes are funny. — Graeme Clark

Hellzapoppin’ is one of those goofy, off-the-wall type of comedies. The kind of movie where “anything can happen and it probably will”. — Alex Udvary

A genuinely bizarre oddity, this madcap comedy is fascinating not only for its many very funny moments, but also for the way it includes, amid the material taken directly from the original stage revue, various purely cinematic gags which are surprisingly modern in tone and significance. — GA, TimeOut.