Bite your tongue. “Spaceballs” the only funny Mel Brooks movie made after 1974 (a golden year that included “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein”).
How can you dislike a movie with lines like “…now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.”?
Oh, and my entry:
Any Police Acadamy movie with a number in the title.
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Ishtar. Warren Beatty in a comedy? That should have been a dead giveaway. I hate that movie.
Movies Mentioned So Far I Like
Joe v. the Volcano
Three Amigos
The Blair Witch Project (although, as a comedy, it really did suck, so may have been appropriate to this thread.)
Oscar (shut up!)
The Big Lebowski
Spaceballs
Something About Mary
People who mentioned these movies are unlettered louts. However, people who mentioned movies that I agree are bad (such as Baby Boom) are posters of taste and distinction.
My entry? Any movie made in the style of Airplane! that does not involve any of the makers of Airplane!
Robin Hood: Men in Tights is at least deserving of consideration…
You’re right Lady. It just might be worse than “Freddy got Fingered”. I had forgotten just how bad it was.
It’s obvious to me that you’ve never seen When Nature Calls… (1985).
I have a friend who say that the three scariest words in the English language are …
“Starring Dan Akriod”
Having never witnessed “Blues Brother 2000” personally, I really can’t say for myself.
now if I could only spell…
HEAR HEAR
Spaceballs was absolutely hilarious and skewered the sci fi movie well (not as good as Blazing Saddles but then what can?)
I mean Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet was absolutely hilarious and was gold in every scene.
Who can forget the closeup of Dark as he says “Loooone Starrrr” and subsequently crashing into him?
“Oh your helmet is sooo big”
“Great I am surrounded by Assholes…Keep firing Assholes!”
I am so glad I have finally found someone who shares this perspective with me. This movie was awful, and every time I hear about another movie made by these guys, I shudder while my friends drool in anticipation.
My vote goes for Me, Myself, and Irene, which I thought was terrible from a comedy and acting perspective, as well as being incredibly offensive. I’m not particularly easily offended, but I made an exception in this case.
Warren Beatty movie “Town & Country”. It sucks to see Garry Shandling in such crap after (IMHO) the best comedy on TV to date (I hate laugh tracks, and I can’t stand vulgarity being held back… not that I like vulgarity, it just ads the the show ’ laugh at real life’ factor) The Larry Sanders Show.
Warren Beatty was ok in Bullworth, even though I think the message of the movie is pretty stupid. (but it was a good movie)
“Mary” and “Meet the Parants” are most certainly up there. Pointless and incredibly boring.
Also, I’d like to point out Mr. SNL is **Lorne Micheals; a guy[b/].
Crap. Whatever. ALso, I can’t imagine “Freddy Got Fingered” can be anything but absolutely aweful.
Fortunately for me, I’ve never seen most of the movies mentioned so far. I’ve never even heard of several of them.
There were a couple of scenes in the Jim Varney movies that I liked, although the only one I can remember now is where he somehow got a lobster plastered to his face.
My memory is mercifully short on this topic, but I seem to remember a “Pink Panther” movie made after Peter Sellers died that was notso-hotso. It starred some American guy who was supposed to be Clouseau’s nephew or something.
RR
I guess no one here has seen Mr. Wrong.
What? Robin Hood: Men in Tights was much better than Spaceballs. SB was amusing, but too hit-and-miss for my tastes – and it should have been released five years earlier.
As for the worst comedic movie of all time …eh, I go far out of my way to avoid those. But I’ll mention Dumb and Dumber simply because I don’t know why people enjoyed it.
Joe Dirt blew dead rats.
Re: Spaceballs
The first time I saw it, I thought it was mildly funny (I have since grown to like it more), but the funniest bit of the whole movie was the “Michigan J. Alien” scene in the diner at the end. It came in completely out of left field and left me gasping for air on the floor.
Can you tell I’m a Loony Tunes fan?
RR
Someone suggested, or if they didn’t they should have, that we need a standard by which to measure and quantify movie comedies. Let me offer the Geezer Standard. Under this standard the ultimate high quality, twenty-four karat, fall down funny movie, ranking as a 10 on the G.S., is Father of the Bride with Spencer Tracy. The abysmal, bad, lousy, no merit, stupid movie, ranking as a 1 would be anything featuring Francis the Talking Mule or Ma and Pa Kettle.
Under this standard any Ernest movie would be comparable with any Francis the T. M. production and would therefore rate as 1 on the Geezer Scale (GS 1). The Young Frankenstein movie would be a GS 10. Steve Martin’s Father of the Bride would be GS 8, losing two points because of lack of originality…