Beg to disagree. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder played each scene perfectly. This is the most subdued of Mel Brooks’ comedies, and it works best on that scale. The musical just left me cold (especially since I don’t care much for musicals to begin with).
I’ll probably get crucified, but I feel the same way when I want MST3K. I have in my memory a bunch of hilarious quips and sequences. But rewatching a whole episode is a little boring.
For instance, I loved the Godzilla vs Megalon. When I rewatched it, I realized most of the jokes were on the bad dubbing and mismatched lips and lack of female roles… over and over again.
Picked up a copy of Ghostbusters to show my son since I remember how big of a hit it was at the time. Not very funny, pretty slow, aged special f/x. He quickly lost interest and I soon followed.
While I can still watch Airplane! and enjoy it nowdays I can’t say the same for the NakedGun films.
Well, I love musicals and found the film version insufferable (I never saw it on stage). The Producers original film is a master class in keeping things tight and stream-lined, and Mostel and Wilder are brilliant. But the musical just extends everything beyond its breaking point (though I think Brooks stopped being funny after the 70s), and while Lane is game, Broderick is a dud.
Go figure. I still think these are two of the best comedies ever and neither has diminished in value or impact since my first viewing (there have been countless since).
I actually just posted that in the movies that have held up well thread - I think, other than the phone booth thing, it has held up well. Different opinions make the world go round. 
Except in person. I haven’t liked one of his movies since To Be Or Not To Be, but I think he’s hysterical in interviews in his late 80s. Also just amazingly well read: I realize it’s a heavily qualified statement, but as far as casual references and obvious familiarity he’s probably one of the most intellectual men in Hollywood.
One thing that was funny about the original was the pitiful production values of Springtime for Hitler and the seedy theatre where it was staged. (Remember, Bialystok and Bloom kept most of the investors’ money for themselves.) The musical blew all of this to hell with their lavish production. Everything was just 'way too over the top! And the feel-good ending was completely at odds with the original’s (“Oh, my God, they’re trying the same scheme again! They haven’t learned a thing!”)
And of course, the original was perfectly cast. Watching a remake with different actors makes me think of what ***Casablanca ***would have been like if Ronald Reagan had gotten the role of Rick instead of Humphrey Bogart.
Except, of course, how to be better criminals! 
And with absolutely no feelings of remorse!
Keeping up some ludicrous front to hide a non-issue issue from the bride/groom’s uptight family is a pretty common plot. Given that it’s probably not hard to find a story where the issue is that the groom is (gasp) an artist or the bride is (gasp) from a wealthy family, or whatever, I wouldn’t put much stock in their use of the trope.
I thought the original version of Casino Royale (with Peter Sellers) was hilarious when I saw it as a kid around 1970. I decided to take another look at it not too long ago and found it unwatchable. But maybe it just wasn’t all that good to begin with.
Did any of Burt Reynolds’s comedies age well? Several were box office hits, but I can’t think of a one that has a following today. I love Dolly Parton and believe her to be an avatar of both the Virgin Mary and Salome, but not even she could save Best Little Whorehouse in Texas from looking more dated than Mickey and Judy putting on a show, and that was the best of the lot as far as Burt’s lighter fare. His most serious comedy, The Man Who Loved Women, was possibly the worst of the lot.
Poor Burt: made tens of millions of dollars and wound up broke and made dozens of movies and about the only ones likely to be remembered are the dread Deliverance at the beginning and possibly Boogie Nights near the end. That kind of waste of money and opportunity can’t be easy to achieve.
Other work that ages poorly: anything Lucille Ball did after I Love Lucy. She was a comic icon from her 1950s work, but her other sitcoms ranged from mediocre to awful and her movies (Mame and Yours Mine and Ours are the only two post Desi that come to mind but there must have been others) were equally forgettable due to her terrible miscasting.
I also recently saw Lilies of the Field and found it so charming! I think Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was obsolete before it even came out.
(I also recently saw In the Heat of the Night for the first time and thought it was really something - not at all what I expected, a much more intimate movie. I liked it quite a bit.)
I couldn’t disagree more. I think that movie has aged extremely well, and my kids love the movie. They even recognized the lions outside the NY Public Library when we visited.
My kids have now discovered the show. They love it. Even though they don’t get many of the references.
The movie just came off as flat. Broad comedy works well on stage. In a movie it just seems forced. I saw the play on Broadway with the entire original cast. It was fantastic.
Maybe The End? I remember liking it as a black comedy but I haven’t seen it in a very long time.
Smokey and the Bandit is still pretty good, albeit a period piece.
The music, the racing, and the slapstick seems to hold up for me.
I have to SMH at some of the choices in this thread. Blazing Saddles isn’t as funny as it used to be? This Is Spinal Tap? I swear, to this day, the “Stonehenge” sequence still makes me lose it.
My 17-year-old watched Ghostbusters and it’s a favorite of his.
No offense, but did you guys get your funny bones shot off in Vietnam?
Most jokes are obviously funnier the first time you hear them. Also, seeing the movie in a theatre with a crowd of people helps make jokes funnier. I find it hard to watch comedies at home and multiple times.
I think this is most of it. Look at the posters here who say that while they think a movie isn’t funny anymore, their kids (who are still kids and are seeing the movie for the first time) seemed to like it.