Duck Soup Reviews

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Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
July 26, 2020
Babbling absurdity is the main ingredient and chaos is the result, with random jokes, skits, and sketches composing the bulk of the story.
Full Review | Original Score: 9/10
Ann Ross
Maclean's Magazine
July 23, 2019
The Marx Brothers in one of their slighter divertissements. Funny and wild, but not wildly funny.
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Rachel Wagner
rachelsreviews.net
March 12, 2019
One of the great comedies without question.
Full Review | Original Score: A+
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
October 29, 2016
True movie fans haven't lived until they've caught its nonstop barrage of classic bits.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews
October 18, 2016
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]
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4
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Kate Muir
Times (UK)
January 16, 2015
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.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Tom Hutchinson
Radio Times
January 16, 2015
The funniest of the Marx Brothers pictures ...
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5
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Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
January 15, 2015
The sheer silliness is inspired ...
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5
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David Jenkins
Little White Lies
January 15, 2015
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.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Emma Simmonds
The List
January 15, 2015
A comedy classic that boasts some of Groucho's prickliest zingers and the pinnacle of Harpo's mirthful mischief.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5
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Tom Huddleston
Time Out
January 12, 2015
Genius just about covers it.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
April 17, 2011
One of the funniest movies of the Marx brothers--and of the Depression era.
Full Review | Original Score: A-
Charles Cassady
Common Sense Media
December 14, 2010
Nonstop classic Marx Bros. mayhem kids will love.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
May 27, 2009
Watch for the famous "mirror scene" in which Harpo--dressed as Groucho--matches Groucho's every movement in a non-existent mirror--pure comic genius.
Full Review | Original Score: A
Pablo Villaça
Cinema em Cena
March 16, 2009
Melhor longa da carreira dos irmos Marx, o filme uma verdadeira metralhadora giratria, disparando dilogos precisamente construdos e gags fsicas inesquecveis com uma rapidez invejvel ainda nos dias de hoje.
Original Score: 5/5
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org
April 18, 2008
Comic anarchy at its very best. This one just keeps getting better.
Original Score: 5/5
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Joe Bigelow
Variety
June 27, 2007
Duck Soup should make practically everybody laugh.
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Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
June 27, 2007
The Marx Brothers' best movie...
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Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
June 9, 2006
This Marxist masterpiece is also one of greatest military satires ever made.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4
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Geoff Andrew
Time Out
January 26, 2006
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.
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