"How about those Bears?"
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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"How about those Bears?"
“I was raised a poor black child...”
“Tootsie?
For those of us who got over a man dressed as a woman during the Victorian era - there really isn’t much to that movie. Trying to remember a decent laugh anywhere in there. Was it even funny?”
Besides, it lacked credibility. Robin Williams as daddy dressed as a “woman” just wouldn’t have fooled those children. Plain and simple, kids just aren’t that stupid.
Tootsie doesn’t deserve even Top 25.
Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World, Caddy Shack, Holy Grail, classics like Operation PettyCoat, Mad-Mad World, and many Bob Hope movies, The Jerk, Stripes, Blades of Glory, Ron Burgandy, Arthur, Ace Ventura, South Park, Animal House, Beverly Hills Cop, 40 year old Virgin (I cry laughing everytime the scene were he’s getting his chest waxed), Fish called Wanda, Spinal Tap, In-Laws (79 version with Falk and Arkin).
And I’ve never got the obsession with Annie Hall as one of the great comedies of all time. I thought Sleeper and Everything you wanted to know about sex, Take the money and run, and Bananas was superior on the laughs and make my tops list. Annie Hall gets too much cred because film schoolers and liberal critics all worship it way too much.
Those are all some of my favorites. And extra special props to Mel Brooks. We’d always watch those movies when I was growing up and too this day, My father and I always quote them when talking to each other. Mel will always be special in my heart when it comes to how my sense of humor developed and how’s it’s helped me through the ups and downs of life.
“Scuse me while I whip this out.”
You are thinking of Mrs. Doubtfire.
Positraction!
You’re talking about Mrs Doubtfile not Tootsie.
LOL!
Not sure if your humor was intentional or not - but the movie you are talking about is “Mrs. Doutfire” not “Tootsie”- basically the same movie but with Dustin Hoffman instead of Robin Williams.
Annie Hall is the first modern Romantic comedy. All subsequent such films imitate it in some ways.
“The Bank Dick with W.C.Fields.”
Oh yeah, his character was named Mr. Souse. (Soo-zay)
“Bananas” and “Take the Money and Run” were very funny Woody Allen movies. Bananas, for the Howard Cosell cameos alone.
What's Up Tiger Lilly-Woody Allen too!
Top Secret is hilarious - a movie that many people have never seen.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is my favorite of all time.
Other random funnies I haven’t seen on the thread yet, in no particular order:
Christmas Story
Army of Darkness
Johnny Dangerously
American Werewolf in London
Clerks
Shaun of the Dead
Lost skeleton of cadavra
Rocky Horror Picture show(only if you watch in a theater where everyone knows what to say to the screen - otherwise it’s horrid)
You Can't Take it With You
Cracking Up
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