Duck and cover

Rating: 3/10 (11 November 1998)

I am genuinely mystified. Make a movie with silly sight gags, a barrage of one-liners and all-around craziness in the 1990's, and the film is labelled as a pathetic comedy. Yet that is all you find in "Duck Soup", and it is regarded as one of the classic comedies all of time. Sure, I can understand how people want to pay homage to the pioneers of film, but all that the Marx Bros. did was to introduce the film-going public to prolonged stretches of insanity. This was a HUGE disappointment.