Don't "Duck" this Funny Favorite

Movie Review #15: Duck Soup, 1933 With each new movie I watch from this all-time favorites list, I pride myself on being able to learn something new...add something to my movie vocabulary...become well-watched! So, when it came to this movie I was perplexed. I really had never been a fan of the Marx Brothers' comedy, and had seen little of their work. Throughout the movie I tried hard to make sense of the senselessness. I tried to find direct parallels with what was going on in politics, the world during that time. I looked for meaning in the dialog. It shouldn't be a surprise to you that I didn't find it, or at least not much of it. I even had to look at several websites to figure out why it was titled "Duck Soup." and, it had nothing to do with the movie comment, rather it was just another joke. I was still perpexed why this movie made it to the classics list. I guess the joke's on me! So what did I learn from it? After I decided that careful consideration and deep reflection were not the best paths for figuring out this movie, I was able to take this away from my experience: 1. Don't always take yourself so seriously. 2. If you make movie watching a list that you are just checking off, then you lose a lot of what you could have gotten out of the entire experience of watching. 3. Enjoy the jokes in life, and take them for what they were meant to be...fun. 4. And lastly, laugh loud and hard! Here's to wishing you fun and lots of laughs in 2012! Happy New year!