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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2015

The sheer silliness is inspired ...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2015

Genius just about covers it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 12, 2015

Duck Soup should make practically everybody laugh.

| Jun 27, 2007

The Marx Brothers' best movie...

| Jun 27, 2007

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.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

Unpredictable, hilarious, and completely deranged. Duck Soup is without doubt the distillation of everything that the Marx Brothers claimed as their own.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 1, 2004

Sublime!

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 13, 2003

As absurdly nonsensical as comedy can be and still be about something.

| Original Score: A+ | Nov 7, 2003

This production is, for the most part, extremely noisy without being nearly as mirthful as [the Marx brothers'] other films.

| May 20, 2003

A comic masterpiece that improves with each viewing.

| Feb 13, 2001

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000