Battling Sisters

In the future this movie posits, women will fight all the wars, and men will keep the home fires burning.

I am not fond of these gender-reversal comedies of the era, since they usually rely solely on the joke of women wearing pants and behaving like the jerks that men do at their worst.

This movie, however, is a lot funnier than usual, in part because of the way it references famous shots from other movies like THE BIG PARADE, and characters like von Stroheim as a rapacious German officer. It also gives Lupino Lane a chance to be battered around by big women. Its certainly not the only movie in which he does that. He also does a couple of the acrobatic moves that only he seemed to essay, like a neck kip that extends to his toes, and his reverse split.