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    Posted: October 25 2020 at 14:17
Not sure how well it's aged either, but enjoyed a few of their movies many years ago, the best probably being Duck Soup.  the one liners and sight gags aren't used so much anymore.  Still, a few great lines stand out like when someone locked Groucho in a bathroom and he said "Let me out of here, or throw me a magazine".
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My wife and her high school friend loved the old Marx bros films...we would get stoned and watch them in the old days...70's ....sometimes play music and turn the sound off the tv.
heh...it was the old days...ok?
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Some Soviets might have been disappointed not to see Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Gummo Marx's brother Karl in it.

Never got into the Marx Brothers personally, despite having at one time identified as a Marxist.
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The Marx Brothers are an acquired taste.
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Being a man from the former Soviet Union, specifically from Ukraine, I read many praising articles on the Net about the Marx brothers and finally watched almost all their movies a year ago or so. 

I had a lot of impressions, mainly negative. To me the humor over there sounded very dated, the tricks offensive, constant harp playing annoying. The song about Lydia that was memorable. And some stuff here and there. Duck Soup was obviously greater than the rest, for nobody played harp there. But... 

I agree, the former Soviet citizens also used to love the cult Soviet comedies and usually those movies do not impress the foreigners, too. 
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