Monday, July 03, 2006

Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies

Tonight we saw a bit of Bravo's Funniest 100 Movies. The full list can be found here. This list has some of the usual problems with movie lists. Many of these movies are too recent to have any kind of feel for how they'll stand up. There are some obvious misses. And my sense is that most people find movies of their teen through college years to be the funniest of their lives. Having said that, I thought I'd take a crack at a top twenty funniest film list (in no particular order):

  • Better Off Dead
  • Airplane
  • Vacation
  • Fish Called Wanda
  • Roxanne
  • Naked Gun
  • Shrek (and Shrek 2)
  • Pee Wee's Big Adventure
  • Blues Brothers
  • Caddyshack
  • Parenthood
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Young Frankenstein
  • When Harry Met Sally
  • Three Amigos
  • Mrs Doubtfire
  • Time Bandits
  • Princess Bride
  • Elf
  • The Man with Two Brains
Bravo missed four of these. What else did I miss?

7 comments:

MamaD4 said...

Hans wishes to submit: Animal House, There's Something About Mary, Old School, Joe Dirt (if you've never seen it, Hans can recite it verbatim), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Not Another Teen Movie...will add more as we think of them...

MamaD4 said...

The Jerk (I was born a poor black child...)

Peder said...

Monty Python is a definite must. Not sure how I missed that. And I love the Jerk, too. I've got a special purpose!

Peder said...

Agreed on Election. And you're probably right about Arthur being a boomer movie. Maybe Shampoo, too. And M.A.S.H is better than Stripes? Really?

DD4 said...

I would like to add "My Cousin Vinny."

carrster said...

I'm a big 'Flirting with Disaster' fan myself. (but I love 'Election' so perhaps our tastes are a wee bit off....

And what about that cinema masterpiece NEWTON'S DISEASE?!?!? www.newtonsdisease.com (heh, shameless self promotion...)

Peder said...

Is Newton's Disease a comedy???