Duck Soup- No Penicillin **

Rating: 4/10 (1 January 2012)

The zany team spend part of the film as stowaways. After a while, their eluding of the ship captain and his men becomes tedious at best.
Then we find our heroes getting involved with gangsters and the brothers actually splitting up in opposing warfare.
The Marx Brothers never failed to amaze me. Their comic timing was absolutely impeccable. They could take such issues of the day as immigration and others and not only make light of them, they actually made them into comic absurdity!
Still, their attempt to poke fun with a variety of issues falls flat here. When they got off the boat, the film starts to go down rapidly in quality. Apparently, they missed the boat here.