5/5 a 30's classic
  by The Purple Heart (USA)
This is one you want to have for your 1930's movie collection. It has it all: great plot, interesting characters and an all time great cast. Why you can even let the kids / grand kids get exposure to classic film on this one. Great entertainment.

5/5 Classic
  by Wesley W. Byas (Belton, TX USA)
I believe Dinner at Eight is one of the all time classic movies. Jean Harlow is excellent, as are her co-stars. It's a delight to watch.

5/5 Dinner at Eight? I accept!
  by Bekka (Springfield, MO)
Great movie! This is one of my all time Cukor favs. Great cast, dialogue, and performances.

Marie Dressler is charming and funny. Jean Harlow is hillarious. And all surrounded by the best of Hollywood at the time.

Nice to see a "mature themed" movie without all the extra stuff they add today.

A true classic in every sense of the word.

5/5 "Dinner for Always"
  by Mark E. Heater (Pinellas Park, FL USA)
My fellow reviewers have already written so much, and so incisively, that all I want to add is this: As far as I'm concerned, THIS movie represents just what "Old Hollywood" could do, when not hampered by censors or infatuated with over-the-top "messages." And yet there ARE signposts: for all the laughs, Cukor doesn't let us off scot-free. Bankruptcy, blackmail, suicide --Cukor helps us through the darker times and makes us giggle here and there, but the final shot of the dining room doors closing for dinner is both natural and very forboding: we're afraid for these people, even the chiseler (Berry? or Beery? sorry) and the gold digger (Harlow, who was never better). But don't get the wrong idea -- DON"T get turned off!! There are plenty of laughs here for those who go for the verbal/sophisticate brand of humor (tho. there are a few hints of slapstic, equally funny).
Well, for someone who'd claimed to not have much to say, I've written quite a bit -- as I read over what I've, I haven't said anything notably insightful. Just see the movie -- it's one of the best.

5/5 Stars of the Thrities at their best
  by Thomas Vance (Georgetown, Ky USA)
Directed by George Cukor, with Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery and Jean Harlow this wonderful movie has both comedy and a bit of drama. Set in the depression era, topics that ring true today are used to move the story along. Typical and topical are failing business, social climbing and adultery. Billie Burke has a wonderful speech as the, "Air Head" wife of John Barrymore that I have yet to see topped. At the end of the movie the delicious gag that the whole movie sets up is delivered flawlessly by Dressler and Harlow. This pre code gem is a delight to watch and well worth owning.