Bringing up baby is as described frantic, fast and noisy. Howard Hocks likes to make overlapping noisy conversations. It is sort of his signature. You do not have time to get your breath from laughing. All the actors are at their best.

There is a story line and a consistency that keeps this movie from being a bunch of one-liners. One of the themes is mistaking baby (a tame leopard) for another leopard that escaped from the circus. Every time Carry Grant gets mixed up with Katharine something inevitably goes wrong and this snowballs as the movie progresses. The movie moves fast enough that you may want to watch it again.