Duck Soup Movie Review
Charles Cassady Jr
Classic comedy film with lots of mayhem, slapstick humor. Read Common Sense Media's Duck Soup review, age rating, and parents guide.
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Common Sense Media
Parents need to know that the Marx Brothers are the epitome of anarchy in Duck Soup. They're rude, insulting, pranksterish, and loyal to nobody. Later, tamer features usually would cast them in some good-guy roles, their destructive mayhem having a secret agenda to help out a pretty girl in distress or the like, but not in this movie. There is some dated and tame sexual innuendo. There are explosions, gunfire, and mortar shells during a comical battle sequence. There is slapstick roughhousing throughout by Chico and Harpo -- characters are often kicked in the rear end. Parents who think the Three Stooges are a bad influence may feel the same applies here. Also, the opening-credit image of live ducks floating in a pot with a fire under it is a little disturbing. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.