I first saw this movie on a plane flight. Oh dear ! My hysterical laughter didn't go down too well with some fellow passengers. I had an interest in the movie from the start having been an ice skater some years ago. What a great mix of pure comedy and outrageous farce this movie is. Two guys who hate each other forced to make a skating-pair. Ferrell is full on, Heder is petulant. It's clash of two diverse personalities forced to perform as a pair on ice. It is so very funny and ranks as my 2nd favourite comedy movie of all time after "Airplane" (1980)
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Duck Soup
(1933)
A Little Too Much of the "Musical"
6 October 2018
Not Groucho at his best. Plenty of snappy lines and ripostes but not all up to par.
A tad too much singing and musical input. What tends to be overlooked in the Marx Bros movies are the brilliant performances of some leading ladies. In Duck Soup. Margaret Dumont (as Mrs Teasdale) is a star. All at once confused, divided, strident and coquettish. It seems a little ridiculous to say the plot of this movie is rather silly - as that is what the Marxs' do. But this one is daft. It doesn't work well. The Opera and The Races we can understand. A contretemps between two fictitious countries is stretching it somewhat.
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