# comedy movies for an 11 year old boy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214 "2003-12-20T21:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/1 "2003-12-20T21:21:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/2 "2003-12-21T02:24:03Z")
Monty Python and the Holy Grail! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/3 "2003-12-21T02:26:07Z")
Give [The Great Race](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059243/) a try. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/4 "2003-12-21T02:26:07Z")
Oh, he should _love_ the early Marx Brothers! Not the MGM crap, but _Horse Feathers, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business_ and _Duck Soup_. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/5 "2003-12-21T02:27:42Z")
_A Night at the Opera_ is crap? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/6 "2003-12-21T02:43:38Z")
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 . . . ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/7 "2003-12-21T05:32:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mullets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@John\_Mullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mullets)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/8 "2003-12-21T05:33:56Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/9 "2003-12-21T05:52:51Z")
> [@](#): > > I love MGM, but that is the same studio who took sexy, saucy Jeanette MacDonald away from Paramount and sewed her vagina shut . . . 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. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/10 "2003-12-21T06:39:20Z")
Spaceballs! ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/11 "2003-12-21T11:37:12Z")
Real Genius ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/12 "2003-12-21T14:43:19Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/13 "2003-12-21T15:34:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Wha…? \*\* 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 . . .) ---
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/14 "2003-12-21T15:37:41Z")
The Producers One, Two, Three Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/15 "2003-12-21T17:05:26Z")
Do you think an 11 year old would really like silent films? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/16 "2003-12-21T17:21:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\* I love MGM, but that is the same studio who took sexy, saucy Jeanette MacDonald away from Paramount and sewed her vagina shut . . . \*\* 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_) ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/17 "2003-12-21T17:39:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/18 "2003-12-21T17:45:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/19 "2003-12-21T17:53:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by watsonwil \* > \*\*Do you think an 11 year old would really like silent films? \*\* My kids (9 and 5) do. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214/20 "2003-12-21T18:13:10Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-movies-for-an-11-year-old-boy/220214.md?page=2)