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- 80The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyAny movie that attempts to mix together love, Cuban revolution, the C.I.A., Jewish mothers, J. Edgar Hoover and a few other odds and ends (including a sequence in which someone orders 1,000 grilled cheese sandwiches) is bound to be a little weird—and most welcome.
- 70Time Out LondonTime Out LondonAllen's second feature, a tribute to the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, is a wonderfully incoherent series of one-liners centered around a puny New York Jew's unwitting and unwilling involvement in a South American revolution.
- 70Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrIt is a funny picture—not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits.
- 60EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonAlthough there are fine homages to Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Eisenstein and Harold Lloyd here, this is a scattershot offering full of apolitical mockery.
- 60TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAlthough some of the humor falls flat in this Allen comedy, his satire of revolutions and revolutionaries is perpetually topical.
- 60The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinEffectively the Marx brothers’ Duck Soup with a Cuban spin. It looks cheap, which is funny in itself, and satire and spoofery are crammed in until it bulges at the seams.