I give it a "AWOT" rating - Absolute Waste of Time.

Rating: 1/10 (1 October 2003)

I've heard about this movie for a long time and finally decided to sit down and watch it, as it is hearlded as a Classic. I'm also trying to watch from the perspective of the mid-thirties. From the time they start singing, it was one Groan after another. The only highlight of this waste of film was when they had 3 Groucho's walking around.
I'm watching and keep telling myself, this has to get better, it doesn't. There is no plot (not that one was expected), it's just a series of Vaudvillian acts from the early 1900's.
I kept thinking that well perhaps it was funny back then because it was new. Well films like, Modern Times (1936), Gold Rush (1925), Thin Man (1934), Laurel and Hardy, etc. Are way above this poor effort.
I think the studio must have pressured these guys into putting out a movie when they had no material, and voila, Duck Soup. If I was movie goer in the 30's and had to give up a hard earned nickel for this rehashed trash, I'd be PO'd. Shame on you Marx brothers.