2/5 SILLY IS AS SILLY DOES
  by C. Chandler (Whitesboro, Texas USA)

.....This movie is only interesting to me because I am a Dorothy Lamour fan and this was the first of the Road pictures. Beyond that it is simply silly with a lot of inside jokes, ad libbing and typical Hope/Crosby mugging for the camera.

.....I am not a big Bing Crosby fan and prefer Hope in movies like My Favorite Brunet, The Princess and the Pirate or Paleface. I can stand Hope as long as Crosby is not in the picture.

4/5 singapore???
  by Snaggy (Cambridge, UK)
I'm typing this as I'm watching the movie. The songs and dance were really good but the settings were very peculiar. I can't very well tell if they were in some mexican village or Singapore. Mexican cantina or spanish-sounding store owners were far from being realistic in Singapore in the 40s!

However, the movie itself is very entertaining if one can overlook the strange settings!

4/5 Good First Road Picture
  by Jim O'Brien (Franklin, PA)
This is the first of seven road pictures (starring Bing and Bob) and it is a good one. I read where the movie was originally set to star George Burns and Gracie Allen in the two lead roles ... when it was then adapted for Bing and Bob.

Some good acting here. The later road pictures put the zany actics and funny gag lines way up front ... as they should ... for our enjoyment, but The Road to Singapore has more of a credible plot and better acting. Dorothy Lamour is an excellent actress. Her one scene near the end, on the ship deck with Bob, is pretty special.

My rank for this road picture (among the seven) is third or fourth. And it's just fun to see the boys at the beginning of what would become a great series of motion pictures.


5/5 Wonderful start for the "Road" pictures.
  by Josh P.
"Road to Singapore" is the first of the "Road" pictures starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. They are all wonderful, crazy, silly and just plain fun films as Bing and Bob wreak havoc along everything they encounter. In this first film, plenty of that is done, probably more likely in any other 'Road" picture as they head for Singapore and rescue the fair Mima from a bullwhipper. Some of my favorite sequences are the "patty-cake, patty-cake" scenes in which it becomes a running gag in every "Road" film, especially this. Filled with crazy antics, hilarious crack-ups, exotic dance numbers and s omuch more to enjoy even though the film is quite underrated and a bit quirky.

4/5 The first stop of many worthwhile destinations
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I don't know why so many of the past reviewers put this film at the bottom of the list of "The Road to . . ." series. This is the film that started it all! It may lack some of the easy play and banter between Hope and Crosby as seen in the later films, but keep in mind this is the first time (1939-40) that Bing and Bob have been in a film together. As the years progressed, they were given more freedom to do what they liked given their bigger star status and the box-office successes of the earlier pictures. Despite what others may say, "Singapore" is an enjoyable film all the way through. It's embedded with gems like "Captain Custard" and "Sweet Potato Piper". The chemistry between Hope, Crosby, and Lamour is great -- you can tell they must have had a fun time making this movie :)I would definitely not leave this one out of my "Road" collection.