What is the least funny 'Comedy' film you've ever seen?

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As in, a movie billed as a comedy that elicited not a SINGLE laugh, smirk, chuckle, or even smile out of you. I can think of endless awful movies where, in retrospect, I actually probably at least got some hint of amusement out of a single slapstick gag or something.

I'll start with something obscure enough to probably not be controversial - Broken Lizard's ('Super Troopers,' 'Club Dread') "Puddle Cruiser," which I rented and sat through to the end without coming close to laughing literally one time.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

shindler's list :(

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

borat

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

troll

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

'what's new pussycat'

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

This is tough because if I was finding a comedy film that bad I wouldn't watch enough of it to judge conclusively.

I did watch all of Along Came Polly without sound (don't ask) and that seemed bad. Maybe RomComs shouldn't be included tho.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Second half of Steve Martin's career to thread.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Robin Williams most definitely to thread.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Click, worst film ever.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Twins
Nothing To Lose
Trigger Happy

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

The Mask

― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

kevin smith (after clerks) to thread in leather trenchcoat

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh, twins, now we're getting somewhere.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh, that one with julia roberts and john cusack. 'american sweethearts'. fucking awful.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say Shrek, i honestly don't know what people see in that film.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

The 51st State

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

'Along Came Polly' is an interesting example, because I actually laughed several times, during Philip Seymour Hoffman's schtick (endlessly bricking and airballing when playing hoops with Ben Stiller). Likewise, I thought every single set-piece in 'Wedding Crashers' - all the gags meant to be funny - were excruciating (artsy gay brother; oversexed mother-in-law; etc.), but I laughed a few times at Vince Vaughn's schtick.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello: Cultural Learnings of Charts for Make Benefit Glorious Planet Pop

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

'bringing down the house'

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think Hollywood could actually beat 'The British Film Industry' for unfunniness, much as it pains me to say it.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Second half of Steve Martin's career to thread.

well, it's hilarious in a way.

Forrest Gump. (And about every Tom Hanks film.)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Old School was pretty lame as well.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

"What's up TigerLily" the Woody Allen "Revoice a japanese Bond type adventure film". Not a bad idea, just not actually funny enough. Although I did laugh once, so maybe not.

What was that Tom Hanks file, "Bachelor Party"? C-man was raving about it, I just never saw as unfunny a film in my life. But hey, different strokes etc.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

(And about every Tom Hanks film.)

excluding Toy Story 1 & 2 obv.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you see reviews of brit-coms like that 'rabbit fever' thing, that no-one ever sees, and you have to guess the reviewers aren't kidding.

xpost

'old school' is great.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Come on people, Tom Hanks was in The 'Burbs!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

FREDDY GOT FINGERED

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Dumb and Dumberer is the worst that comes to mind, but I'm sure there are much worse ones somewhere in the back room of my mind where I file all those "this-sucks-but-I-don't-want-to-start-my-homework" cable movies.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY FREDDIE GOT FINGERED TOO.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

The Burbs? I vaguely remember seeing a bit of that.

Toy Story? Hmm, never seen it. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I srsly think part of Samuel L Jackson's zeal for Snakes On A Plane was that he knew he couldn't actually appear in a film worse than ~~Episode 1~~ The 51st State.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think i've ever seen a remotely funny comedy film!

99% of comedy be it stand-up, film or tv = WORST SHIT EVER

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

comedy should be banned

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

what about Captain Orgasmo or whatever it was called - that Stone/Parker thing?

Me, Myself & Irene and Stuck With You both looked v unfunny.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Churchill: the Hollywood Years

It's just appauling all the way through. Even a star-studded cast of slightly-aging comedy genii can't save this travesty.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

otm, it is shit.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, you're MAD MAD I say! Monty Python! You can't say that's unfunny!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I found Orgasmo funny.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I never got why "Sideways" was advertised as a comedy film.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.churchill.com/images/dog.jpg
Oh Yesh!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Lex did watch a Jackie Chan film after all.

Only for said film to be The Tuxedo.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

sacha baron cohen is PARTICULARLY unfunny

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

WRONG

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

he's just stupid! he doesn't make me laugh! he makes me wish i was not in the same room as the tv, when he comes on

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Sideways was fairly funny.

Lex's views on comedy imply that it is an inferior artform to drama acting or even music somehow. Cuckoo.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, don't tell me you dislike, say, Fawlty Towers?!?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh like he has seen that

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sideways is funny.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I would say you people REALLY need to see "Freddie Got Fingered" before continuing on with this thread but I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

See I figured it would be unfunny so didn't watch it. Never liked Tom Green really.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Lex's views on comedy imply that it is an inferior artform to drama acting or even music somehow. Cuckoo.

it's not even an art form!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I AM NOT DRINKING ANY FUCKING MERLOT

Now that was a pretty good meme!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

i mean are you going to call those human statues ARTISTS now, i think not

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

it's not even an art form!

Erm, that's why the plebs like it!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

What else was Sideways other than a comedy? I think part of the problem is that Hollywood has led us to believe that comedy = yuk-a-minute.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty funny. It had at least two bits that I think are classic - the guy's friend telling him to "get your book out there, get it in libraries," and the running-down-the-hill-drinking-the-wine scene.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

people actually SAW Freddie Got Fingered? i mean, not as a punishment?

lex, you're bonkers.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like every movie that Comedy Central shows on weekend afternoons is one of these, but all of a sudden I don't remember the names of any of them.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

A happy young couple, Sarah and Tom (Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher) marry against the wishes of Sarah's friends and family and go to Europe for their Honeymoon. Unfortunately for them, Sarah's parents send Sarah's ex-boyfriend Peter Prentis (played by Christian Kane) to break up the happy marriage.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Young Einstein

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

HE WAS PLAYING AN ELECTRIC VIOLIN IN THE BATH!!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

all i remember is kitten pie

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

PERFECT ILX EPITAPH

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Reality Bites

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Sideways

It was funny in parts, and I did enjoy it, I just feel a bit misled by the trailer/advertising which positioned it more as "laugh a minute" (I don't mean that as in slapstick).

It was a fine film, just not the same film I was expecting to see.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Just be thankful that (probably) none of you watched Yahoo Serious' second film, Reckless Kelly.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Sideways was on the verge of being laugh-a-minute, actually, but then again I really enjoy laughing at people.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

The laugh-a-minute model of comedy is probably the single worst thing to ever happen to comedy. Kind of like the thrill-a-minute model of action movies has completely killed action movies.

I remember reading somewhere that Hollywood literally measures the number of laughs in a test-audience and then tweaks the movie based on that.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Austin Powers 2 is in my top 10

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

meatballs III

― lk (lawrence kansas), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Austin Powers 3 is in my bottom 10

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Austin Powers 1 - kinda funny

People who incessantly quote Austin Powers - should be executed

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

WTF is it with "mini-me" being the go-to joke for people with no sense of humor otherwise?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

HE HAS A MINIATURE VERSION OF HIMSELF!

DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

IT'S COMEDY GOLD, SON!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine the Borat film is funnier than the Ali G film.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

the lex is so not invited to my next barbecue.

My answer: Very Bad Things.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Borat film was kind of funny, it was just sort of depressing and soul-scraping

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

The opening dream sequence of the Ali G film is one of the better masterpieces of the cinema. Shame they ruined it by not rolling the credits after three or four minutes.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Sideways was on the verge of being laugh-a-minute, actually, but then again I really enjoy laughing at people.

Bah, perhaps I was just being cranky when I watched it then!

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

'Blackball', the Mel Smith comedy about lawn bowling starring Paul Kaye.

'Broken Lizard's Super Troopers' is spectacularly awful.

Second half of Steve Martin's career includes 'Bowfinger', which is ace.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

haha super troopers so funny see i laff just thinking abt it the snozberries taste like snozberry!!!

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I liked "Blackball"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

The 2nd & 3rd Austin Powers films
Anchorman

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

sideways made me want to cry a lot, not laugh at all. nobody else i saw it with had that reaction, though. devil wears prada also made me want to cry by the end, even though there were a lot of parts i laughed at, and the women i saw it with agreed, while the men just thought it was funny. i think i'm just bad at watching misfortunes happen to people and then finding it funny instead of mortifying and sad. (xxxpost)

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

mentioned so far, roffled hard:

borat
dumb and dumber
super troopers
wedding crashers
sideways

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

(I'd like to point out that it was Dumb and DumberER that was mentioned)

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

ooooh ok - that was actully not funny.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Anchorman

RLY?

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. The only part that made me laugh was when he was drinking the milk.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Very Bad Things OTM. Possibly the worst film I've ever seen.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't see these out of choice (had to review 'em) but, oy:

The Man
The Girl Next Door

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Was Pumpkinsupposed to be a comedy? That movie made my blood boil.

I wholeheartedly agree that the Broken Lizard movies are painfully unfunny. Super Troopers was bad enough but Club Dread actually made me want to hurt someone.

― Hatch (Hatch), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

When I saw Your Friends & Neighbors I was expecting a comedy, based on trailers and, you know, Ben Stiller. Maybe it was, just a DEPRESSING AND UNFUNNY one.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I hate how ilx makes me feel for being so entertained by Super Troopers & Club Dread (and Beerfest for that matter).

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

have only seen 'beefest' out of those but it bit the big one.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a trailer for Beerfest.

Why?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

beerfest was the best of all

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I must've chuckled a couple of times at There's Something About Mary but not nearly as much as the rest of the audience in the theater, who were all roffling at the most inane things. Don't know if it's the least funniest comedy I've seen, but I sure was aware of the gap between my reaction and everyone else's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't care for There's Something About Mary either, the only time I actually laughed was when it was revealed her long-time love was Brett Favre.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

seen a hell of a lot worse.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

There's always one asshole like you who wants to shit in the apple pie! Well, you just shat in the one apple pie that knows how to shit back!

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh fuck the one with stiller and jack black about the dog shit. barely got past the 20-minute mark.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, so have I, they were called Anchorman and Austin Powers 2. xpost

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

"Tristram Shandy" was a lot less funny than I had been led to believe it would be. Maybe it's a style of humor that doesn't cross the Atlantic well.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

someone show me the thread where people talk abt the funniest movies plz

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

There's always one asshole like you who wants to shit in the apple pie! Well, you just shat in the one apple pie that knows how to shit back!
-- stoked for the madness (crucial.bonu...), November 17th, 2006.

That line (from 'Club Dread') was indeed pretty funny, but it really made me happy when I realized much later it was Mr. Friendly/Tom/Beardy the Other from 'LOST' who says it! (He's also the butt naked man chasing Paul Giamatti down the street in 'Sideways'!)

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

You didn't like Anchorman, Ally? For some reason I find that disappointing. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Tristram Shandy" was a lot less funny than I had been led to believe it would be.

Me too. Huge disappointment.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mean to disappoint!!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

MC Gainey, he's totally my favorite character actor! Me & some folks have been calling him "Pink Panty Meltdown" since Club Dread.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think I must be the only person on the planet who really hated Sideways.

― ENBB (expatrica), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

people actually SAW Freddie Got Fingered? i mean, not as a punishment?

my brother got this out of the video shop one night saying he'd seen it at Uni and pissed himself laughing. we both sat stone faced and agog through the first 30 mins before switching off. ah, the transformative powers of drugs.

the third Austin Powers is the best one!!!

i also liked that john cusack/julia roberts/billy crystal comedy mentioned upthread, but i have a blind spot where billy crystal is concerned.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think I must be the only person on the planet who really hated Sideways.
-- ENBB (la_loma_ric...), November 17th, 2006.

riight.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Tristram Shandy" was a lot less funny than I had been led to believe it would be. Maybe it's a style of humor that doesn't cross the Atlantic well.

-- o. nate (syne_wav...), November 17th, 2006.

It was a little underwhelming, but I thought it was supposed to be. There were some funny moments, but a lot of it dragged. I didn't leave wanting my money back or anything.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Nuns on the Run remains the only movie that I've ever walked out of in the theater. Ranking right up there would be Outrageous Fortune starring Shelly Long & Bette Midler.*

*Or Bette Midler & Shelly Long. There was actually a controversy when this film was released over who got first-billing.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Another one: Nacho Libre

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Not seen mention of this upthread anywhere, but the "fresh from Will & Grace" Debra Messing vehicle "The Wedding Date" is absolutely horrible. Rented as a random choice from my LoveFilm account and my g/f and I sat through it stony-faced with nary a roffle or even a smile between us.

There's so much that's bad about it, but the overriding reason is leading man Dermot Mulroney's ferocious charisma vacuum - at times it's like Messing is gamely mugging alongside an android, such is the lack of chemistry.

It really does fucking blow, and to rip off Peter Bradshaw it's a nonrom-noncom-romcom of the first order.

― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

The laugh-a-minute model of comedy is probably the single worst thing to ever happen to comedy

I think this is partly the legacy of the splendid Airplane! Not all fit the jokebook model.

Napoleon Dynamite ranks 'high.'

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

What was the movie with Matthew McConaoughayehnangn and Kate Hudson? That movie was really, really bad. I don't remember the circumstances in which I watched it but I do recall it involving being somewhere not my house; might've been one of the "this is the only thing on the airplane/ship, fuck" (see also: Rumor Has It... and that Jimmy Fallon baseball movie, which are also both wretched).

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

'how to lose a guy in eight (8) days' i think is the hudson/maccoaughty one.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

it should be eight, but then maybe it's more than that.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't like Anchorman or There's Something About Mary, either.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

>Matthew McConaoughayehnangn

Good old Matty also starred in recent stinker "Failure to Launch" or "Failure to Laugh" as I saw it described in one review...

― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone see that film in which Uma Thurman is a superheroine enacting revenge on a guy for dumping her?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

um, not Kill Bill!

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Napoleon Dynamite.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone see that film in which Uma Thurman is a superheroine enacting revenge on a guy for dumping her?
-- 2 american 4 u (n...), November 17th, 2006.

Ah, 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend,' directed by Ivan Reitman... whose imdb resume as a director includes such bullet points as:
Evolution (2001)
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Fathers' Day (1997)
Junior (1994)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Twins (1988/I)

(yes, 'Stripes' is on there, and 'Ghostbusters,' too, but Jesus Christ, that list is like a laundry list of war crimes)

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Kindergarten Cop!

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

oh my this was bad - altho the island they filmed it on was v Lost-esque iirc.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hang on!

My sister, one time (very early on, Video Rental Shops had only just been invented) came in with what she thought was a Me Brooks film.

Eventually we pointed out that "A Mel Brooks style comedy" means it is not a Mel Brooks film.

It was called "The Directors" although I believe it is more widely known as "The First Nudie Musical" or something similar.

It was more that everything was poor, from the songs to the jokes and the quality of the film transfer, everything.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

freddie got fingered is one long, long, long stretch of the most painfully unfunny shit after another, and it feels like its about 7 hours long, but there are a few 15-30 second stretches that i swear are some of the funniest things ever filmed.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Kindergarten Cop twice in the cinema! I was only little.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am on a mission to see every recent dodgy film that Uma Thurman is in (My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Prime etc)

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

'Sideways' and 'A Cock And Bull Story (Tristram Shandy' are two of the funniest films I have ever seen, roffle-wise.

My answer to this would be the bewilderingly awful 'Mystery Men'. Which just didn't work in any way, shape or form.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc OTM on There's Something About Mary

Also:

Arsenic & Old Lace
Dr. Strangelove
48 Hours
Ace Ventura
any Chevy Chase film

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

You people are all wrong. Freddy Got Fingered is a horror movie, and a pretty effective one at that.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. Strangelove

You may have just won the "most unpopular choice" award.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am on a mission to see every recent dodgy film that Uma Thurman is in

Be Cool seems pretty bad from what I've seen.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

You may have just won the "most unpopular choice" award.

Sellers' Nazi schtick was funny once. George C. Scott, however, had me in stitches.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't think Dr Strangelove was that funny, really.

mystery men, otm! no laffs!

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sellers' Nazi schticque, seconded.

Apart from that, he's great in this.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

George C. Scott, however, had me in stitches.

Me too. So why did you list that movie?

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

ace ventura is really funny but not as funny as henry kissinger talking abt how much he likes it in the jim carey a&e bio.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't find Dr. Strangelove funny at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I think some of you people are broken.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE.

A true Nadir in the glorious cinematic career of Adam Sandler.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

any Chevy Chase film

God, I think 'National Lampoon's Vacation' is one of the funniest movies of all time.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

My real choice is Smiles on a Summer Night. Wild Strawberries was funnier.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Um, in what universe was "Punch-Drunk Love" supposed to be a comedy???

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

OMG

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE was one of my nominations for Worst Film I've Ever Seen on a previous ILE film thread. I didn't actually regard it as a comedy, because I didn't think it was trying to make me laugh. Humour didn't even register.

An absolute travesty, and one of the few artistic efforts I'd unabashedly describe as 'fucking pretentious'. ARGH ARGH ARGH what an awful, awful film. The critics loved it, of course. FUCK

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I remember there was this college student next to me who kept saying "OH SHIT, OH SHIT!" as if everything Sandler said was hilarious.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

not seen it, but eight heads in a duffle bag didnt look funny

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I wondered why it wasn't funny.

Okay, then brit comedy "Shooting Fish".

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

An absolute travesty, and one of the few artistic efforts I'd unabashedly describe as 'fucking pretentious'. ARGH ARGH ARGH what an awful, awful film.

I liked it.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i sort of enjoyed this, but it was hour 8 of an 11 hour flight with a ten hour wait in the airport beforehand, so...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, wtf is up with your screen name???

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I thought PDL was going to be Happy Gilmore II.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

austin powers 2 - worst film in the history of ever

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

It was the goddamn awful grating noise soundtrack that I hated most about PDL.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Punch-Drunk Love it did a splendid job of making me tense and uncomfortable throughout.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

austin powers 2 - worst film in the history of ever

I take it you didn't see AP3, then.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" is okay, it has Kate Hudson in it, I like her. It's on a par with "Maid in Manhatten".

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I loved Punch-Drunk Love, but it is absoltely definitely NOT a comedy.

I kind of can't believe jel disapproves so much as to cuss!

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

You could've just left the cinema or turned off the TV jaymc.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

fair enough if you liked it; I myself didn't mind it at the time so much, but subsequent reflection has seen it tumble from 'disappointing' to 'terrible'. It would have been so much better if it had staged its 'release' of Sandler's clearly repressed character in a more memorable, lasting or destructive manner. I just don't think it handled its premise at all well. And those 'abstract swirly images' pissed me off SO VERY MUCH.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

sir how did you cut yr hand then?

uh w/my knife

lolololololololol

not a comedy, but so funny.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" is okay, it has Kate Hudson in it, I like her. It's on a par with "Maid in Manhatten".

Okay I'm kind of in hysterics over that! Talk about damning with faint praise!

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to watch a lot of rom coms despite my terminal singleness.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Rumor Has It was not so bad, I'd put it on par with Monster-in-Law"

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

You could've just left the cinema or turned off the TV jaymc.

No, you misunderstand me, I really admired it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, wtf is up with your screen name???

I'm keeping you in suspense.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

DUKES OF HAZZARD

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Mystery Men seemed a lot funnier the last time I RESCREENED it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, wtf is up with your screen name???

BOWFINGER. i claim my no prize...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

no hang on that's not right is it?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I watched "the Weather Man" the other day, on the box it says "A comedy to brighten your day" - it is not.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, wtf is up with your screen name???

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/images/400/garethbrent5.jpg

If anything, I should be rewarded.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/spaceballs.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

(actually, lemme take that back – willie nelson telling dumb jokes and throwing bombs out of a convertible while johnny knoxville laughed like a madman and drive was fairly rofflicious, plus there were maybe 10 addl minutes of funny in that disaster)

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

SNL-alum films shouldn't count.

Worst by a major filmmaker: Which Way to the Front?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

PP OTM. "I don't think anyone, Dutch or otherwise, should be punished for having big boobs."

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Manhattan is considered a comedy, right? Quality of filmmaking aside, that's my answer. I appreciated aspects of it but nothing in it struck me as remotely funny. Annie Hall is my favourite movie ever though, and that has me lol-ing.

Pavlovian Hollywood comedies pretty much always elicit something from me. I really enjoyed There's Something About Mary, Austin Powers 2, Super Troopers(! Probably my favourite on this list), and Wedding Crashers, and didn't mind/kind of liked Just Married, Old School, and Anchorman.

Dr Strangelove classic but dated obv.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Ace Ventura too.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Napoleon Dynamite a lot but it didn't really make me laugh out loud or anything. I actually found it weirdly affecting in a painful, uncomfortable way.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

STEALING HARVARD.

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

The laugh-a-minute model of comedy is probably the single worst thing to ever happen to comedy

I don't really get this. Surely the old Hollywood screwball model was if anything *more* intent on "laugh-a-minute" than today's comedies, even? "Bringing Up Baby", "His Girl Friday", the Marx Brothers movies (give or take a musical scene and blink & you'll miss it romantic subplot), etc.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, if anything, mainstream Hollywood comedies are more like sappy romances with jokes.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Almost any & all Dreamworks CGI smears of brightly-colored shit on celluloid: Shreks, Sharks Tale, etc

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

What hobbled romantic comedy (dramas and relationships too) was the gradual introduction of psychobabble.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Carry On Columbus I remember nothing about, other than that I didn't even smile, let alone laugh, at any point. Wasn't Julian Clary in it? Nary a chortle to be had in Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid either. Or any other Troma films for that matter.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

austin powers 3 otm

― gear (gear), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Shrek is great BTW. You guys don't even like when Donkey sings "Try a Little Tenderness"?

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Never seen it, but that scene sounds pretty horrible.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Sundar, my head just exploded! Manhattan has its share of Annie Hall-style gags even if it is more morose and the characters are more hateful. "van GOCCCHH? Like an Arab she spoke."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Another great bit from Manhattan- Wallace Shawn: Sex God

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Or the tuba playing: "It sounds like someone's strangling a parrot."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Camouflauge starring Leslie Nielsen. Possibly the worst movie I've yet seen.

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

oh God, have you ever seen this film with Woody, Sharon Stone -- not Antz -- and David Schwimmer, Picking Up the Pieces? TRULY mirthless.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Leslie Nielsen has the honor of appearing both in the least funny comedy films and most unintentionally hilarious films ever.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't find Dr. Strangelove funny at all.

you are insane.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Meet the Parents

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.

Bound to be an unpopular choice, but seriously: fuck that Myers asshole sideways with a jackhammer.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Reviewing the thread I see the sequels have gotten a lot of mentions. Well, I'm not surprised. But I still don't know how it ever got to be a hit in the first place.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Napoleon Dynamite a lot but it didn't really make me laugh out loud or anything

I laughed out loud more than once while watching Napoleon Dynamite. But apart from one or two good scenes in the beginning, Nacho Libre felt tired and formulaic. I guess it goes to show those eternal words of wisdom: It's a fine line between clever and stupid.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 18 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Meet the Parents is terrible, as are American Pie and There's Something About Mary. The former two I just randomly caught on television, but I actively tried to watch TSAM (I love Jonathan Richman), but I just couldn't stand it at all.

― emil.y (emil.y), Saturday, 18 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with What's up TigerLily, I think I laughed twice. Conversely, I've only watched half of the original Casino Royale, and laughed at the Woody Allen parts but the rest is like torture. I'll try to youtube his scenes or something, I just can't finish it otherwise. Blazing Saddles is the least funny Mel Brooks movie I've seen but I was a kid when I saw it so I'd be glad to reconsider it.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

You didn't think "Blazing Saddles" was funny? God help you if you ever see "Life Stinks" "Robin Hood: Men In Tights" or "Dracula: Dead and Loving It."

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

it's mad mad mad mad mad (etc) world

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

I watched parts of Robin Hood, seemed hit and miss but not horrible. Like Sundar upthread I give really wide berth to 'pavlovian' contemporary comedies and give the least to bad comedies from about 1960-1975; datedness, forced wackiness/ribaldry, and slack pacing just make them excruciating to watch if the jokes don't hit. Thought of another one: The Party with Peter Sellers, aside from the hilarious opening sequence it's a snooze.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to wit...

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/04/33/shallow_hal.jpg

SHALLOW HAL. My dad made me watch it because he thought it would 'boost my self esteem.' Oh dad.

Duplex was also pretty excruciating.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lets_go_to_prison/

"Let's Go to Prison" gets 13% on rotten tomatoes.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 19 November 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0009F43W2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 19 November 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Grey Gardens. Not made as a comedy but it sure as hell's been treated like one.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 19 November 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hoho, 'Let's go to Prison' is now down to 11%

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Jesus, it was directed by Bob Odenkirk. The man has officially crashed/burned.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Genuine PG-Rated Fun"?!?!?!?!?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 19 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Royal Tenenbaums.

Not only did I not laugh, I fantasized about setting the screen on fire.

― Hey Jude (Hey Jude), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I thought The Royal Tenenbaums was ok, not brilliant, but I absolutely loved The Life Aquatic. It seems to be the other way round with most people.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Sunday, 19 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I hated The Life Aquatic. I got into a heated argument after seeing it. I think I lost a friend over it. I don't miss him at all.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Mask
-- Lloyd Bonecutter (joedevivr...), November 17th, 2006.

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totally.

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

i fucking HATED sideways. despised it. just thinking about it makes me want to throw things.

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

oh god Shallow Hal, what a loathesome movie.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

where's the funniest films of all time thread?

i think you'll find plenty of the choices from on here -
blazing saddles, dr strangelove especially but i can't remember.

what was that really DESPISED one with gary shandling in it?
from about 3 years ago?

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I remember being not being very enamoured when I saw "Black Sheep" with Chris Farley. In fact I was nearly physically sick.

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Let's Go To Prison is now at 9%

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

let's go to prison got a really good review in the new york times. did anyone see it?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Pest

Uggh

― Siah Alan (Siah Alan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, someone please explain to me John Leguizamo and his baffling choices of roles.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

Mother-fucking Bio-Dome! The Z-rate Wayne & Garth / Bill & Ted act was already enough, but when in the final act the guys develop a conscience and decide to mend the damage they've done, that made a friend I was watching it with growl, walk out of the room and refuse to see the rest of the film. In retrospect I wish I'd done the same.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

Amazed the film version of 'Bean' is yet to be mentioned. It should have its own sub-section in the UN convention banning torture.

It is so dire even the TV series is made to look like comedic genius next to it.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Bean at least made me laugh several times (though the TV series was better). Johnny English, on the other hand...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

what was that really DESPISED one with gary shandling in it?
from about 3 years ago?

"What Planet Are You From"! I actually laughed at that a few times, guiltily. Everytime he gets a boner, this loud whirring noise comes on the soundtrack. It happens at a couple of inopportune moments, and I chuckled. Like I said, guiltily.

"Duplex" is a good call. And seeing the "Shallow Hal" still reminded me of "Envy," the Barry Levinson movie with Jack Black and Ben Stiller as former friends divided over sudden wealth. Mind-rapingly dismal.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas, Bio-Dome is the greatest American film of the 90's. And it's not a comedy, it's a fictionalized account of the Biosphere 2.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, i don' know how they marketed it over in Finland, but here...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen Sideways, but I thought it was weird people thought it would be a laughfest, because here it was marketed basically as a poignant, bittersweet film about getting older.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and I think Your Friends and Neighbors is a comedy, but it's about the blackest, most misanthropic comedy there is, so no wonder if the laughter is uneasy. It's a good film still.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sideways was kinda funny in a "look at these pathetic wine-tasting yuppies and their problems" kinda way.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

It is a funny film, but it perhaps gives the characters more dignity and respect than they deserve.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing on this earth comes close to "The Magic Typewriter" (1988)... especially when they got Meryl Streep in to play a cameo as the (briefly) transgendered male lead (I can't even remember who that was).

The line was well and truly crossed when she started that whole rap scene about missing her former male bodyparts (!!!!).

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that reminds me of a terrible film I saw starring Lisa Kudrow and one of the Wayans, the centrepiece of which was Phoebe winning over a rowdy hip-hop club with an improvised rap about how much she loved shopping.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

kudrow only stepped in after michael richards pulled out at last minute over pay dispute

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Is this a good place to mention that there's going to be another Van Wilder movie?

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Amazed the film version of 'Bean' is yet to be mentioned.

Mostly because I thought that I had blacked out any memory of seeing it. Now it all comes back to me. IT JUST WOULDN'T END.

And all Americans live in weird angular homes with pastel colors. We're very modern over here.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have not seen the Bean movie but I take it Rowan is doing some sort of massively failed Tati thing?

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

the first couple of bean telly shows were a riot.
went over hugely well over here (uk).

i take it the film isnt like those.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't think the bean movie was that bad, actually, although i was fifteen when i saw it.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Caddyshack II would have this all sewn up if it weren't for Randy Quaid.

I loved Dirty Work, but Norm McDonald's second movie, Screwed, with Dave Chappelle, was ridiculously awful.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

You know it's not funny when all they could come up with from the press was a single word:
http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/9260000/9269174.jpg
Otherwise The Royal Tenenbaums was a major letdown.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have a real aversion to Martin Short's face.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hia screen daughter there has wonky boobs.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

my local video store has "Happiness" in the comedy section.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

didn't president bush like executive produce captain ron or something?

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Grosse Pointe Blank

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

That too.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

No way, that movie is laffs ahoy! (xpost)

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I saw that too! But as far as stupid rap comedies go, How High was even less funny.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

captain ron was written by john dwyer, but I'm going to assume it wasn't the guy from the coachwhips

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

"How High" was definitely funnier than "Marci X," but surely that's damning with the faintest of praise.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Shallow Hal was rescued by a) the end credits b) Belle And Sebastian beiing on the soundtrack.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

no sale

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Michael Richards film, Trial and Error, is a masterpiece.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

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