I’ve never seen “Freddie Got Fingered” but the hatchet job it did on the careers of everyone involved, especially Tom Green, indicates it must have been something rather special in the unfunny department.
Yes, and while she did provide a high point (or two, cuz I’m hi-larious!) she didn’t add the comedy.
I still think my pick is the winner! Or loser. Biggest loser.
I have a headache. Be nice to me.
-Joe
Yeah, it might have been.
But the sight of Will Ferrell’s bare-ass running down the street and then being thrust into the face of the woman in the back seat still elevates it above the negative funny movies in this thread.
Not to mention the wedding singer:
Fuckin’ every now and then I fall apart
And I need you now tonight.
I fuckin’ need you more than ever
Or Vince Vaghan at the wedding: “It takes a man to give away an angel.”
No way that movie belong in here – there’s some seriously misguided shit in this thread.
I think I am one of about 26 people on the planet who was unable to detect any humor in Napoleon Dynamite.
FWIW, it’s my theory that DitD is a joke on the audience; that it’s laughing at the audience. Kind of a complicated pomo flipflop of a “comedy.” The director is making a comedy about movie cliches and audience expectations. That’s the only way the movie makes sense to me. As such, it’s in my lifetime top 20 list. Not everybody’s cuppa, needless.
I liked the movie – quite a bit, actually – but obviously I’m not hip enough to grok these subtleties. Thus, I don’t consider it a comedy.
Me, and 25 others.
My brother gave me this DVD recently. I watched it, and didn’t laugh once. My brother had told me that he found it got funnier the more times he watched it.
I was also told by a friend who watched it with her kids that it’s funnier if you watch it with other people – you share laughs at small things, so she said.
Also, I’m 46, and different age groups have different ideas of what’s funny.
I’ll never forget one review I read of this movie, though I don’t remember the author or paper. Warning: it’s gross:
"This is the kind of movie that Jeffrey Dahmer would watch while laughing hysterically and masturbating into his own feces.
I never saw the movie (can’t stand Tom Green- never laughed once on any episode of his show) but the visual has stuck with me for years.
I’m glad someone posted this because at least now I know what the name of this film is. I’ve never watched a Will Ferrell movie or even heard his voice (if not for SDMB I wouldn’t even know who he is), but my local video store has this movie in their ‘featured’ section with the cover facing outward (where he’s holding an inflatable doll and puffing out his cheeks to make fart noises), and so it’s the only thing I ever associate with him. Watching a preview of Melinda & Melinda on TV at the gym (with the sound off and reading the subtitles) basically went like this:
Female lead: I just took 28 pills.
Will Ferrell: PHHHHHHHBBBBTTTTTT!!!
Female lead: I’m having an emotionally difficult time.
Will Farrell: PHHHHHHHBBBBTTTTTT!!!
Other character: [something touching and emotional]
Will Farrell: PHHHHHHHBBBBTTTTTT!!!
I have no idea what the guy’s actually like, but that one video cover has just left me with no urge to watch anything he’s in.
Anyway, on to the OP:
Mars Attacks! had so much potential and just never got there.
Hudson Hawk became the gold standard of unfunny for my friend and me. Whenever we came across a really bad movie we’d remind each other, “at least they didn’t sing.”
But then we remembered Popeye.
And personally, The Jerk and Raising Arizona were the first movies I bought on DVD.
Many of my friends found Dodgeball to be freaking laugh-yourself-into-a-coma funny. I hated it, and actually felt uncomfortable watching it. The only parts that werent cliches were the parts where they were supposedly mocking cliches, but it still felt forced and trite. Almost every singly joke fell flat, mainly due to the apparent lack of originiality.
Then again, this goes with a lot of Ben Stiller and Will Ferrel vehicles, so maybe it is just me or something.
As another vote, I’ll quickly mention Meet the Fockers. It was zany, sure, but it was no stinking laugh riot. In fact, it was only after a good 15 or 30 minutes that I realized it was a comedy.
It ain’t just you.
All right, after reading this topic…some things:
All things are, of course, only IMO.
A. Seconds, Thirds, and Fourths.
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Mars Attacks sucked. Just plain sucked. It was not funny in the least and I think I wasted my time watching the hour and 4 minutes or so that I did on it.
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The Master of Disguise was only a BIT better. I ALMOST finished that one…but again, it was pretty bad. I didn’t find any part funny.
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Freddy Got Fingered I watched all the way through but didn’t even crack a smile. Tom Green tries too hard, I think. Kinda like Jim Carrey did when he first started out (see New Additions number 1)
B. Disagreements
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is one of the best movies ever. I never get tired of watching it and it makes me laugh every time.
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People actually didn’t find Rasing Arizona funny??!! What is wrong with you people? :eek: Just kidding.
But man, that movie has to be one of my all time favorites. I laugh constantly throughout the whole thing. I’ve loved that movie since I was 9 years old and rewatch it every 7 months or so.
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Just a semi disagreement here. Very Bad Things I think was MEANT to be a dark comedy. Not all together funny. I thought, while it didn’t invoke a lot of laughter, it’s tone and humor DID fit the type of movie it was and the plot line. Talk about the most unexpected storyline of all time. Sheesh.
New Additions
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Both of the Ace Ventura movies were more stupid than funny, I found. Jim Carrey was far too overdramatic in those, I thought.
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I watched all of Joe Dirt*, but didn’t find it very funny at all. Same with Dirty Work.
And finally…the least funny movie of all time, IMO, that WASN’T meant to be funny has got to be 187. I don’t know of that movie even cracking one joke or funny/witty line. I watched it last night (for the 7th or so time) and it struck me (not for the first time) what a dreary movie it is all round.
I watched most of it. Fascinatingly awful.
The only funny thing about Napoleon Dynamite is listening to people repeat the lines over and over again. I didn’t enjoy it in the least.
Serving Sara is really really bad. I bought it because I thought that I liked it. Apparently I only liked it because Liz Hurley is in her underwear…still worth the $5 I paid.
Master of Disguise
The Road to Wellville - apparently this is a comedy although I saw no signs of it.
Quoted for truth.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. That was such a big disappointment because the book was wonderful. So much potential in the history of psuedoscience, all tossed aside to make enema jokes.
The day before yesterday I was unfortunate enough to be stuck on a plane showing Herbie: Fully Loaded (main screen, not the personal viewers that could be turned off). Man, did this movie ever make me feel really guilty about what my parents had to sit through back when I a fan of the original Herbie movies. Adding to the discomfort was the fact that I was sitting next to my company’s chairman and his wife (both in their 60’s) who were laughing hysterically through the whole thing. It probably helped that they were as loaded as the car.
I love The Jerk but I totally agree about the suckiness of Mars Attacks.
My nomination is Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part II. The only other time I groaned that much was when I was giving birth.
Rhinestone (Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone).
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalo - honourable mention.
Yeah, Napoleon Dynamite was one dreary, miserable, unfunny movie. It’s strange, most of my friends who have seen it think it’s hilarious.
FWIW, Dodgeball isn’t a Will Ferrell movie. Good thing - Will Ferrell in an acting role is like dropping a big, steaming crap in the lunchbox of an innocent movie. No, I didn’t find Anchorman to be particularly funny. There were a couple moments where I chuckled (“I think I killed a guy!”), but most of it was just an appalling trainwreck of unfunny, especially toward the end.
I’ll see you you almost any movie named here (haven’t seen all of them personally) and raise you Modern Problems starring Chevy Chase with Oh, Heavenly Dog a close second.