The first Road picture in three years (the last was Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold rush. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby play a pair of third-rate San Francisco entertainers who are obliged to skip town in a hurry. They book passage on a ship to Alaska, where they run afoul of escaped murderers Sperry (Robert H. Barrat) and McGurk (Nestor Paiva). Through a fluke, Bob and Bing overpower the killers, then get off the ship in Skagway disguised as Sperry and McGurk so that they themselves can evade the authorities. The boys cant understand why everyone is so afraid of them, nor why saloon-owner Douglass Dumbrille and Dumbrilles moll Hillary Brooke are so chummy. It turns out that Sperry and McGurk had stolen a deed to a valuable gold mine before escaping to Alaska. Dorothy Lamour is the rightful owner of that deed, thus she too shows up in Skagway, hoping to extract the document from Bob and Bing. Whenever the plot threatens to become too difficult to follow, narrator Robert Benchley shows up to explain things--which of course only adds to the confusion. At any rate, the whole affair ends up with Bob, Bing and Dorothy running through the snowy wastes, with the villains in hot pursuit. Bing nobly stays behind to fight off the bad guys himself, handing the deed to Bob and Dorothy and wishing them Godspeed. Flash-forward to 1945: Bob and Dorothy, both old and wealthy, are reunited with their equally aged pal Bing, who wasnt killed after all. Dorothy tells Bing that Bob has been a wonderful husband and father. Yes, father....and wait till you see who plays Bob Jr. (We adopted him!) Road to Utopia is the usual melange of adlibbed chatter, snappy songs, talking animals and patty cake, patty cake. Youll love it. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide