Despite the tepid critical response at the time, "Duck Soup" is now seen as a classic political farce. Film critic Danel Griffin believes that "Duck Soup" is "on par with other war comedies like Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" and Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove", only slightly more unnerving in that "Duck Soup" doesn't seem to realize it is anything more than innocent fluff." Fellow film critic Roger Ebert believed, "The Marx Brothers created a body of work in which individual films are like slices from the whole, but "Duck Soup" is probably the best." British film critic Barry Norman was slightly cautious about the Marx Brothers overall, but considered "Duck Soup" their best and included it in his 100 best films of the 20th century.