How to Eat

Another in MGM's "How To" series of comedy shorts starring humorist Robert Benchley. This one deals with eating and appetites. It's fun stuff but, as with the rest of the series, it is more amusing than laugh-out-loud funny. Benchley is great as always. I enjoy this series for it's "window into the past" moments as much as Benchley's humor, honestly.

This movie is about how different situations like things that make you nervous make you loose your appetite. It is kind of a pointless short that just states the obvious. I watched this short on the Turner Classic Movies web page.

How to Eat (1939)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Robert Benchley short, in his long running "How to..." series, which tackled a wide range of subjects with this one here taking a look at eating. The short deals with various issues that might cause a person to lose their appetite. There really isn't any scientific evidence to back up anything Benchley is talking about and my guess is that the majority of what he speaks about, in this short or others, are just things that bother or effect himself. There's certainly nothing wrong with that and this short comes off mildly entertaining and features a couple nice laughs. The best sequence is the section on picking at dinner before it's actually on the table and how this might cause one not to be hungry when it's actually time to eat.