Posted on 03/25/2011 1:09:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
5. Tootsie
4. Young Frankenstein
3. Some Like It Hot
2. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
1. Airplane!
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Any of the old Martin and Lewis movies. Used to sit there and laugh ourselves silly. Also, the silent actor...can’t think of his name...he always looked like a sad sack. Well, we watched one of his movies out of desperation one night and we ended up laughing like fools...slapstick comedy at its finest.
Here's my list:
Five funniest movies ever made:
Even remember where we saw this. Movie theatre in Sacramento California and laughed ourselves silly. Ha,ha. All good actors/actresses and a stupid but funny plot and just good, clean fun.
Zorro, The Gay Blade (lmao)
Never cared for Merman but this movie made me appreciate her talent. They were ALL good in this movie. :)
And “Brazil”. These days, we can’t forget “Brazil”.
Why???? Why did you hate such a funny movie??? I’m just curious.
“Raising Arizona”
“Son, you got a panty on your head”
Yes. The remake, which is the filmed version of the broadway play with Matthew Broderick, is weak.
LOL.
Yep, they gayed it up way too much over the original. There was no way to top Dick Shawn's Hitler.
Slap Shot.
Agreed. It’s very unfortunate.
“Rat Race” can’t hold a candle to the original it ripped off, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”
“There was no way to top Dick Shawn’s Hitler. “
You got that right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkYBJId7WZs
Great suggestions all over.
Duck Soup, Airplane!, Animal House, Arsenic and Old Lace (or the Ladykillers - not the POS remake), It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Ghostbusters, Monty Python...Holy Grail and Caddyshack are shoo-ins for any top five, but aren’t they all a bit, well, obvious?
If Life of Brian had used Muhammad instead of The Messiah as the setting for the mistaken identity (”I’m not The Prophet, HONESTLY!”), it had shown Brian surrounded by Taleban imbeciles, and it had finished with Brian nursing a hangover to “Always look on the bright side of life” we’d definitely get the joke. In fact, we’d be mocking the po-faced fundies crying blasphemy.
Python were thirty years too early with a cautionary tale about falling in with politically correct Marxist revolutionaries, and observing how you just can’t get through to people who’ve been drinking the kool-aid...
Ferris Beueller and Uncle Buck were great comedies, but John Hughes’ incessant “And now for a barf-bag full of schmaltz and a moral message so unsubtly delivered it belongs on the end of a He-Man short” cliche in EVERY DAMN FILM HE EVER MADE grates to the point where he’s ruled out of my Top Five.
It's the only “guys dressed like women” schtick that I think is really funny in a movie. Usually, it seems corny or just plain unfunny.
My favorite part is at the end when Jack Lemmon finally reveals that he's a guy and Joe E. Brown says,” Nobody’s perfect!”
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