Lame Schtick

Rating: 3/10 (9 April 2006)

This movie is not funny whatsoever. Maybe I have been jaded by the humor of the late 80's to the present, but "Duck Soup" was so boring that it made me want to cry. There is basically no plot--it is non-stop schtick for seventy minutes, which is about sixty-five minutes too long. Some of the bits are mildly amusing, but they are few and far between and are not nearly as funny as the rest of the movie is awful. There is a ton of play on words throughout the movie, all of which are asinine and childish. The random show-tunes throughout the picture are also incredibly bad. I am sure that the Marx Brothers were considered innovators of their time, but thank God that their time is over. If I had not been forced to sit through the entire movie for a class on popular culture, I never would have made it to the end.