This past weekend I watched two really funny movies. I highly recommend anyone who enjoys a good laugh to go see them now! Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus - made in 1972 for German/Austrian TV. Subtitles in English, but still classic Monty Python. Not really a movie, though. More of a 45min show. Clue - Based on the ever popular board game. Great cast (Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean) all in their primes. Made in 1985. Very funny!
I suppose it depends on your sense of humor, but in saying that, I wasn't too impressed by the Van Wilder movie either. Still, if you do enjoy Will Ferrell, check it out.
I saw Clue in the theater in 1985 (I got the third ending, by the way). When the movie came on cable years and years ago, I taped it. One day when I had the kids over, I put the movie in and let them watch it. It quickly became my younger son's favorite movie. So, I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing to think a movie that a then-four year-old found funny is pretty good. But I still like it (and have the DVD. One of the first DVDs I bought). For the record, my younger son also loves Mars Attacks!. So, he's got something of a twisted sense of humor.
Clue is one of my all-time favorites. The thing is, when it came out in the theater, you only got to see ONE of the possible 3 alternate endings (I got the first ending, mrpaige). Truckloads of memorable quotes in that flick. "Let us in! Let us in!" "Let us out! Let us out!" "Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her so much! It... it... the... it... flames, flames... on the side of my face. Breathing, breathless, heaving breaths... heaving..." "Why is J. Edgar Hoover on your phone? "I don't know. He's on everyone else's. Why shouldn't he be on mine?" "Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry, specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur." "Yes, but now I work for the United Nations." "So, your work has not changed." "There was one shot at Mr. Boddy in the study, two for the chandelier, two at the lounge door, and one for the singing telegram. That's not six." "One plus two plus two plus one." "Un uh. There was only one shot that got the chandelier. That's one plus two plus one plus one." "Even if you're right, that would be one plus one plus two plus one, not 'one plus two plus one plus one.'"
"this is wa peacock...you can not make an omlette without breaking eggs..." "i...i had to stop her from screaming..."
