comedy movies for an 11 year old boy

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My son,almost 11,has finally taken an interest in movies which aren’t cartoons.
He loved Dickie Roberts (as did I,I know,we are weird).
Also loved the original Freaky Friday.
He (and I ) loved Three Days.
Like me,he much prefers comedies.

So recommend some movies we can check out of the library which are for his age range and funny.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

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Give The Great Race a try.

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Oh, he should love the early Marx Brothers! Not the MGM crap, but Horse Feathers, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business and Duck Soup.

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A Night at the Opera is crap?

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Well, compared to their Paramount stuff, yeah. It still had some funny moments, but they turned Harpo into a harmless faun and Groucho into a kindly matchmaker. I love MGM, but that is the same studio who took sexy, saucy Jeanette MacDonald away from Paramount and sewed her vagina shut . . .

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Well, if you’re gonna go Marx Brothers, you may as well go all the way to Chaplin.

I first saw “The Gold Rush” when I was about that age, and loved it.

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is quite the funny film.

I really need to see more of the Marx Brothers films. Goddamn these local video joints!

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Wha…?
It’s animated, sort of, but what about Shrek?

Oh, how about Better Off Dead with John Cusack. There’s some language, but it’s freaking HYSTERICAL.

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Spaceballs!

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Real Genius

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Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Airplane!

Your average 11 year old will find it hilarious. The subjects they make fun of are adult though. (Like racism, large man-parts and seeing grown men naked. Plus farts.)

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I meant they took a very sexy actress and somehow made her completely sexless (pairing her up with Nelson Eddy had something to do with that . . .)

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The Producers
One, Two, Three
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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Do you think an 11 year old would really like silent films?

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I was gonna ask if secret footage exists of that.

Vanilla- look for W.C. Fields’ THE DENTIST.

or RE-ANIMATOR (No! I’m joking! NOT APPROPRIATE FOR ANY ELEVEN-YEAR OLD CHILD!.. I don’t need Vanilla coming to kill me! L)

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Here are some recommendations from the “just turned 13 set” that hangs out in my basement:

Home Alone (1, 2 & 3)
Liar, Liar
What’s Up Doc
The Santa Clause
Little Giants
Mighty Ducks (1, 2 & 3)
Homeward Bound (1 & 2)
Sandlot
Mouse Hunt
Short Circuit (1 & 2)
Flubber
Beethoven (1 & 2…there’s 5 now I think)
Babe (and Babe, Pig in the City)
Baby Geniuses
Batteries Not Included
Three Men and a Baby (they thought this might be “too adult” because the baby pees)

They also thought Mel Brooks and Monty Python movies might be a little too racy for a “child that young.” They were really cute and concerned and condescending. They did think an 11 year old would love some movies with more “action,” such as

Jurassic Park
Men in Black
Superman
Spiderman

but didn’t know if you were “one of those non-violent parents.”

Then they came up with a lot of animated and semi-animated films

Charlotte’s Web
Stuart Little
Shrek
Mulan
Lion King
American Tail & Fievel Goes West

etc., but I told them I thought you wanted to stick to “real” movies. They “humpfed” and went back to watching Pirates of the Caribbean.

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They just came running upstairs yelling “Problem Child,” “Problem Child,” which I can only take to mean they highly recoomend Problem Child and Problem Child 2.

On the way back down I heard them muttering “I suppose she’ll think Star Wars is too advanced.” YMMV, but my kids really did like Star Wars at 10 or 11.

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My kids (9 and 5) do.

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thanks for the suggestions.
Wasn’t Home ALone 2 the one with Michael Richards?

Star Wars?
Ha!
I’ve never seen any movies remotely like that,I wonder if myson would like it.
I hate sci fi.
No offense.