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Critics Consensus: Fueled by inspired silliness and blessed with some of the Marx brothers' most brilliant work, Duck Soup is one of its -- or any -- era's finest comedies.
Critic Consensus: Fueled by inspired silliness and blessed with some of the Marx brothers' most brilliant work, Duck Soup is one of its -- or any -- era's finest comedies.
All Critics (47) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (3) | DVD (3)
Genius just about covers it.
Duck Soup should make practically everybody laugh.
The Marx Brothers' best movie...
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.
This production is, for the most part, extremely noisy without being nearly as mirthful as [the Marx brothers'] other films.
The Marx Brothers created a body of work in which individual films are like slices from the whole, but Duck Soup (1933) is probably the best.
True movie fans haven't lived until they've caught its nonstop barrage of classic bits.
For all its wild comic abandon, Duck Soup has darker implications than the usual Marx Brothers comedy and, as such, feels the most relevant and sharp in its satire. [Blu-ray]
It turns out that the sharp-tongued humour of Groucho Marx is ageless, the slapstick timely and the subject matter still pertinent: loony dictatorship, religion, pointless warfare.
The funniest of the Marx Brothers pictures ...
The sheer silliness is inspired ...
Questioning the canonical standing of a titan such as Duck Soup seems like an exercise in questioning the tastes of those who like it rather than the upbraiding the comedy mechanics of the film itself.
If there's any intellectual consideration to be drawn from the Marx Brothers life thesis presented here it might be that all works of the hands of men are inevitably polluted, tainted with greed and dishonesty, and thereby open to ridicule. No respecters of any social convention, it's all up for laffs, and they lay out the disrespect with the glee of children. Favorite line: "I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove ... but I can't see the stove!" Margaret Dumont again as the madcap girl of the family.
Super Reviewer
The Marx brothers raise hell and guns and laughter in this classic, with big musical numbers and a hysterical slapstick humor full of puns and physical gags and memorable scenes that helped define the comedy genre and were an inspiration to many great comedians who came after.
Dispite the short duration of it and the lack of more informations about McCarey's storytelling, Duck Soup is one of the finest Marx Brothers film. Laugh out loud all the 69 minutes. Groucho presents the most unforgettable character of his career, Rufus T. Firefly, that sometimes remember Chaplin's The Great Dictator, a few Three Stooges shorts and we can see too the clear influence that Rufus had in Sacha Baron Cohen's Admiral General Aladeen. Fresh.
The best movie to see on election night! Freedonia rules. Rufus Firefly for president.
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