# Extremely stupid movies you think are hilarious **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-stupid-movies-you-think-are-hilarious/459537 "2008-08-10T22:43:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-stupid-movies-you-think-are-hilarious/459537/121 "2008-08-18T17:54:56Z")
Seeing this thread, I immediately thought of **The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox** , a 1970s western farce with Goldie Hawn and George Segal. Segal plays a (very bad) card hustler who steals money belonging to a group of outlaws; Hawn is a dance hall girl/prostitute who steals the money from Segal. Zaniness ensues while Segal chases Hawn and the bandits chase Segal. My favorite portion of the film is when Hawn pretends to be a nanny to scam her way into a Mormon polygamist’s harem. She likes the idea of being one of a multiplicyt of wives – looks forward to “one night on and six nights off.” It’s dumb and silly and I laugh my ass off, especially when Hawn and Segal try to communicate secretly in front of one of the Mormons by speaking ‘French’ (consisting of a completely understandable melange of pig Latin, Spanish, and Yiddish). (I saw this in the theater at a ridiciulously young age considering how raunchy a film it is. I think my mom thought it was a cartoon about animals.) Also **The Owl and the Pussycat** , with Segal and Barbra Streisand, where Segal plays a mousy author and Streisand a prostitute Segal tries to reform. Don’t remember it that well, as I haven’t seen it in ages, but I do remember Segal trying to defend his writing the line “The dawn spits the sunlight at the morning.” **Murder by Death**. Probably more _silly_ than stupid, as there is a clever conceit behind the film – where parodies of famous detectives (Peter Falk’s Sam Diamond, Elsa Lanchester’s Miss Jessica Marbles, David Nivens & Maggie Smith’s Dick and Dora Charleston, etc.) are gathered together by the nutsy Lionel Twain (a hilarious Truman Capote) to solve an unsolvable mystery. The performances are gold (especially Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness as a faux Charlie Chan and a blind butler, respectively) and if you love the mystery novel genre, you’ll appreciate some of the parodies – broad though they are. I would’ve once put the original **The In-Laws** in this category, but it’s become something of a cult favorite, deservedly so, and lke **Murder** I don’t really think it’s _stupid_, just very very silly. Alan Arkin’s reactions to Peter Falk’s tale of massive Tsetse flies carrying away small African children are priceless. Also: “Serpentine! Serpentine!” So maybe I’m blurring the distinction between stupid and silly. Some of my favorite British comedies including most of Monty Python, **Black Adder** and **Red Dwarf** are awfully silly, but not necessarily stupid. I guess Nigel Tufnel really was right – there _is_ a fine line between stupid and clever. Or maybe the line is simply: “If I like it, it’s silly; if you like it, it’s stupid.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-stupid-movies-you-think-are-hilarious/459537/122 "2008-08-18T18:02:23Z")
[QUOTE=SuntanTigerTamer] Please tell me that I am not the only person who thinks that _ **Dirty Work** _ bordered on genius. Norm Macdonald. Artie Lang. Directed by Bob Sagat. What more do you need? “Let me get this straight. You bet on the fight in Rocky 4, and you bet against Rocky?” “Hindsight is 20/20 my firend.” [/QUOTE] Ha ha! You didn’t count on my loyal army of prostitutes, did you? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-stupid-movies-you-think-are-hilarious/459537/123 "2008-08-19T00:34:10Z")
[QUOTE=Sleel] _Big Trouble in Little China_ was a deliberately stupid movie, I believe. I love that they pretend that Jack is the hero when it becomes obvious that he’s actually the (mostly inept) sidekick. Great little film. [/QUOTE] How did I forget this movie? A masterpeice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-stupid-movies-you-think-are-hilarious/459537.md?page=6)