Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos

[Anonymous]

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

[Anonymous]

Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Naked Gun

I think these are all age appropriate and incorporate different aspects of comedy: slapstick, dry British humor, farce, irony, teenage rebellion, etc.

[Anonymous]

Airplane!

[Anonymous]

Anything by Mel Brooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pee Wee's Big Adventure

YESSSSS!! I died laughing when I first saw this at age 12 and my daughter reacted the same way when she saw it last year at the same age. So crazy funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything by Mel Brooks.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pee Wee's Big Adventure

YESSSSS!! I died laughing when I first saw this at age 12 and my daughter reacted the same way when she saw it last year at the same age. So crazy funny.

I could never get into Pee Wee Herman. The persona always creeped me out. Too much like a mannequin doll come to life. I was nearly in h.s. when the TV show came out. How he became a kid movie icon was beyond me b/c it was SATIRE. I feel bad for Paul Reubens though. His career tanked and in the scope of things, pretty minor offenses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pee Wee's Big Adventure

YESSSSS!! I died laughing when I first saw this at age 12 and my daughter reacted the same way when she saw it last year at the same age. So crazy funny.

I could never get into Pee Wee Herman. The persona always creeped me out. Too much like a mannequin doll come to life. I was nearly in h.s. when the TV show came out. How he became a kid movie icon was beyond me b/c it was SATIRE. I feel bad for Paul Reubens though. His career tanked and in the scope of things, pretty minor offenses.

He actually *wasn't* a "kid movie icon." He was famous more among adults than kids, because you're right - his brand of comedy was satire. His appeal is more for adult humor than children. So mature tweens/teens with a good sense of the absurd would love him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pee Wee's Big Adventure

YESSSSS!! I died laughing when I first saw this at age 12 and my daughter reacted the same way when she saw it last year at the same age. So crazy funny.

I could never get into Pee Wee Herman. The persona always creeped me out. Too much like a mannequin doll come to life. I was nearly in h.s. when the TV show came out. How he became a kid movie icon was beyond me b/c it was SATIRE. I feel bad for Paul Reubens though. His career tanked and in the scope of things, pretty minor offenses.

He actually *wasn't* a "kid movie icon." He was famous more among adults than kids, because you're right - his brand of comedy was satire. His appeal is more for adult humor than children. So mature tweens/teens with a good sense of the absurd would love him.

Nope, they made a doll and a kids' cereal. The movies were aimed at kids.

[Anonymous]

These are such great suggestions - we all must be just the same age. (43 here!)

I'd add:

Top Secret
Naked Gun
Spies Like Us
Real Genius
Police Academy (does that one hold up?)
Vacation
Wet Hot American Summer (which they may have seen)

[Anonymous]

Tommy Boy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything by Mel Brooks.

+100

Not sure about History of the World, Part 1. There are some scenes you may want to view first. Like the Queen picking her guards. Yes, yes, no, YYYYEEESSS. . .

[Anonymous]

What about Bob!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Splash

Peter Sellers in Blake Edward's Pink Panther movies from the 1970s

Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (silent)

Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)

Arsenic & Old Lace or Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant is very funny)

A Christmas Story (more seasonal obviously)

Oh my goodness. PP, I genuinely love your taste in movies (for myself) but an 11-year-old does not want to watch Harold Lloyd and the Marx Brothers.

I agree with another PP that Spaceballs is the way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Splash

Peter Sellers in Blake Edward's Pink Panther movies from the 1970s

Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (silent)

Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)

Arsenic & Old Lace or Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant is very funny)

A Christmas Story (more seasonal obviously)

Oh my goodness. PP, I genuinely love your taste in movies (for myself) but an 11-year-old does not want to watch Harold Lloyd and the Marx Brothers.

I agree with another PP that Spaceballs is the way to go.

+1
We (husband and three teens) re-watch Spaceballs every few years. Never gets old. Also, Young Frankenstein.