Mjeteconer Just perfect...

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

classicsoncall I'm always learning something new when I research a film on the IMDb, like how this Laurel and Hardy short was a sequel of sorts to "Them Thar Hills". So now I'll have to search that one out to round out the experience.When I watch anything with Stan and Ollie in it today, I have to marvel at just what a pair of comic geniuses they were. As a kid, I always preferred Abbott and Costello, but I realize now that that with A&C, they did funny things, but Laurel and Hardy did things funny. As an example, just check out the timing involved whenever they leave Hall's grocery store and eat one of his cookies. They start out very simply and wind up after three or four tries in an increasingly complex choreography that's just brilliant to watch.There's also the misdirection with the pilfering customer in Stan and Ollie's electrical supply store, who starts out on foot and winds up hauling the entire store away in a moving van. With the boys none the wiser, they carry on their feud with Hall in an escalating series of comic encounters. And how about Ollie getting away with that line to Hall's wife coming down the stairs from the bedroom - "I've never been in a position like that before". I would never have picked up on that double entendre as a kid, but boy oh boy, it was right out there in plain sight for the alert viewer to pick up on and and go 'huh?'.In any event, just about any Laurel and Hardy short offers as much entertainment as anyone else's full length feature, so taking in three or four at a time can only quadruple your fun. And by the way, why is it you never hear about alum any more?

bkoganbing Stan and Ollie have gone into business with an electrical appliance store and it just happens to be located next to the grocery store of Mae Busch and Charley Hall. As fate would have it they've got a history with Mae and Charley going back to a previous short subject Them Thar Hills. Charley's of a suspicious nature, no doubt aggravated by seeing Ollie coming down the stairs of his apartment above the store and saying goodbye to Mae. There is an innocent explanation for it all, in fact it was caused by Stan, I won't say how.This gets Hall's back up and they start a war of pranks for the rest of the 19 minute short subject. Which are a series of slapstick gags the boys pull on Charley and he keeps retaliating. It escalates pretty good and they come, not fast and furious, but kind of slow cooked the better to savor.Though Tit for Tat probably should be seen back to back with Them Thar Hills, it's a good enough short subject to stand on its own. Why would it have gotten an Academy Award nomination if it wasn't?

bob the moo Laurel and Hardy open up an electrical hardware store and go to introduce themselves to the neighbouring grocery store owner only to find that it is Mr and Mrs Hall, whom they encountered previously on a mountain trip for health reasons. Mr Hall still has issues regarding his wife and Hardy. These issues boil over when Hardy inadvertently gets involved with her again leading to a battle of retribution between the two men. Meanwhile, no one is minding the store.Having just seem `Them Thar Hills' the day before, the fact that this film followed on from that one was a pleasant surprise. The strongest part of that film was a `tit for tat' battle with Charlie Hall, Well, someone clearly agreed that this was funny, so the vast majority of this film is given over to a continuation of that battle – directly referring back to Them Thar Hills. The whole film is hilarious. Not only does the humour strike an imaginative chord but the calm `accept my punishment' style approach of the film makes it even funnier. There is also a great running joke each time the duo leave their store.Laurel and Hardy do great work – both giving and receiving the blows. Charlie Hall is about as spot on as I've seen him in these shorts. Here he has a bigger character than he often does and he really works hard to thank the film for the part I guess. Busch has less to do and is really only the plot driver here.Overall this short is one simple idea – a running battle between Laurel and Hardy and Mr Hall the grocer. It is wonderfully simple and wonderfully effective as it is hilarious from start to finish.

Ron Oliver A LAUREL & HARDY Comedy Short. The Boys are opening a new electrical supply store and are surprised to learn that the grocery next door is owned by the same bickering couple they met disastrously in THEM THAR HILLS. Mr. Hall quickly impugns Ollie's honor & the resulting TIT FOR TAT struggle, in which they wreck havoc on each other's person & property, quickly reaches donnybrook proportions...A hilarious film, one of Stan & Ollie's best. The battle royal with the grocer is long & very satisfying. Notice the running gag of the little fellow robbing the Boys blind. Charley Hall & Mae Busch play the neighbors.