Anonymous
04/20/2017 21:46
Subject: Re:Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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.
Anonymous
04/20/2017 20:45
Subject: Re:Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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
04/20/2017 20:37
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
What about Bob!
Anonymous
04/20/2017 09:00
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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
04/20/2017 07:43
Subject: Re:Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
Tommy Boy
Anonymous
04/19/2017 22:23
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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)
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
04/19/2017 22:13
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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
04/19/2017 21:51
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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
04/19/2017 17:25
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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
04/19/2017 15:44
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
Anonymous wrote:Anything by Mel Brooks.
+100
Anonymous
04/19/2017 15:44
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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
04/19/2017 13:10
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
Anything by Mel Brooks.
Anonymous
04/19/2017 12:30
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
Airplane!
Anonymous
04/19/2017 12:20
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
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.
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
04/18/2017 22:40
Subject: Next comedy to "introduce" after Three Amigos
Pee Wee's Big Adventure