Disappointed to a large extent

Rating: 3/10 (22 August 2004)

When I started watching this movie, I expected it to be great, to be funny as Charles Chaplin's movies, but, I was to a great extent disappointed.
This movie is not funny enough, Marx brothers' acting is amateurish, and exaggerated. the plot is poor, quite a lot of scenes seem meaningless and unnecessary, just trying to make fun, and worse still, they are not funny at all, just abrasive gags. I only managed to get two smiles out of it - one, the tattoo scene, two, the mirror scene - that's all. Some scenes even look outlandish, for instance, the one when Marx brothers lift their legs in the air, followed by other people, is not funny but weird, as if they were dogs trying to pee.
If you are expecting to see comic brilliance and intelligent satire in Duck Soup, please, skip this movie, because you will see lots of abrasive gags instead.
If this movie is not considered as one of the IMDb top #250, and one of AFI #100 films, maybe I just watched it for 45 minutes, instead of watching it to the end, in my opinion, Duck Soup is NOT deserving of it's IMDb and AFI's top rating, this film is overrated and the hype surrounding the film seems unreasonable.
I feel sorrowful that I have just wasted 68 minutes out of my life watching Marx Brothers tried, in vain, to be funny. If this film is Marx brothers at their best, I certainly won't watch their other movies. If this film is Marx brothers at their best, then Charles Chaplin is too much for Marx brothers, for Charles Chaplin's films are done in a far more tasteful fashion.
I rated Duck Soup 3 out of 10, 3 is given to its political satire, which is the only merit of this movie.
Well, out of respect for movie-makers, I'm not generally against any movies, but this time, I'm afraid I have to put Duck Soup on my all-time worst movies list.
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Tell you what, after I wrote the comment above, I did not send it immediately, 'cause next I was going to watch another Marx Brothers' movie - A night at the opera. And A night at the opera is way better than Duck Soup, Marx Brothers showed their comedy talent in A night at the opera. If you wanted to know how Marx Brothers are, then go for A night at the opera, skip Duck Soup. maybe Duck Soup is Marx Brothers at their worst.