Comic anarchy at its very best. This one just keeps getting better.
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04/18/08
Duck Soup (1933)
94 %
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Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 32
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Runtime: 72 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: DUCK SOUP captures some of the Marx Brothers' zaniest routines and funniest quips, creating a laugh-out-loud spectacle of politics gone haywire. Backed by wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale (regular Marx straightwoman Margaret Dumont),... [More]
Starring: Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Groucho Marx
Director: Leo McCarey
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Top Critic
This Marxist masterpiece is also one of greatest military satires ever made.
06/09/06
...detractors of the quartet will find very little here to embrace...
02/28/06
It also includes what is perhaps the Brothers' funniest scene ever: an immaculately timed and performed sequence with a broken mirror in which Groucho, Chico and Harpo look absolutely identical. A masterpiece.
01/26/06
The last time the Marxes were allowed to be completely lawless and eternally centre-stage.
01/18/05
The film's humor might be broad and low, but sometimes a bludgeon is just funnier than a gimlet.
11/20/04
Unpredictable, hilarious, and completely deranged. Duck Soup is without doubt the distillation of everything that the Marx Brothers claimed as their own.
06/01/04
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