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Tue, 09 Sep 2003
Movies: funniest ones ever?
What are the funniest movies ever made? This question has come up a couple of times recently, partly related to the list of top 50 movies that I posted back in May. Of course, as with all such questions, it's not perfectly well defined---do we mean the best movie that is also funny, or the movie that generates to most laughs, or what?
Looking down my previous list of movies, the top comedies that I included are: Dr. Strangelove; This is Spinal Tap; Airplane; The Princess Bride; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Zelig. I also included some funny movies in my "not quite on the top 50 list": Best In Show; Toy Story; Groundhog Day; Duck Soup; M*A*S*H; and Raising Arizona.
Those are more or less in order by the quality of the movie, rather than by how funny it is...but as I look at it, I'm pretty pleased with it as a list of laugh-producers, too. I'd shift a few things around, though, e.g. mvoing Groundhog Day up and Zelig way down. Overall, though, I'm sticking with it...until someone points out some that I've forgotten.
Oh, by the way, back in May I said Goodfellas isn't even one of the top 5 gangster movies. Thea Lawton asks: well, what are five better gangster movies. A fair question. The answer is:
(1) The Godfather, (2) The Godfather Part II, (3) Scarface, (4) The Untouchables, (5) Get Shorty
I almost stuck Key Largo somewhere in there too (probably at #5)---I'm a Bogie fan.