I love Duck Soup and consider it one of my favorite movies, but this is a very valid critique. It’s amazingly smart and funny, but the Groucho routines are so rapid-fire that there’s no room to breathe or laugh; you have to watch it multiple times just to take it all in. I can only imagine if they’d road-tested it for a bit before filming, how much more refined and better-paced it would’ve been.
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