What happened to all the FUNNY movies? They seemed to fizzle out in the 80's or 90's. Some of my favs were Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, My Cousin Vinny, Young Frankenstein, Throw Mama From the Train, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Blazing Saddles and The Bird Cage. I'm sure I missed some, but "funny" movies just aren't funny any more.
This list is in no way complete. I enoyed these, your mileage may vary. As I remember, all of these were made since 1990:
Osuofia in London
Smoke Signals
Shakespeare in Love
Le Havre
The Invention of Lying
Reel Injun
God Bless America
Juno
Grabbers
Bend It Like Beckham
Up
Sister Act
Despicable Me
Galaxy Quest
Pulp Fiction
Zootopia
Little Miss Sunshine
Trollhunter
Delicatessan
Get Out
East is East
Go Fish
In Bruges
Monsoon Wedding
The African Doctor
Nobody Loves Me/Keiner liebt mich
Best In Show
Men in Black
Mary and Max
Thank You For Smoking
Burn After Reading
Amelie
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Four Lions
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil
The Royal Tenenbaums
Trainspotting
Being John Malkovitch
Brave
Wag The Dog
Night on Earth
Edit: Should be something for everyone here: Satire, slapstick, cerebral, dark humor, animation, surrealism, etc...
I'm a Mel Brooks fan. But Moonstruck is one of my very favorite comedies. The love scene is absolutely my favorite love scene to date.
I LOVE this movie!
Netflix has some humorous series, such as Atypical, Call my Agent!, One Day at a Time, Grace and Frankie, Drop Dead Diva, Girlboss, etc.
Most of these shows have diversity elements as well; gay issues, autism, feminism issues.
Uhm, ok? I don't agree.
Just a few:
I happen to like Woody Allen movies so "Whatever works", Deconstructing Harry....
I know I'm forgetting some, those are off the top of my head, easier to find funny comedy series like Tracey Ullman, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Silicon Valley....
It's SO TRUE! It seems the movie industry is striving to only entertain 17 years old (because it's the most who are buying/watching films these days)... and they're most likely running out of ideas. Indie Movies are also not well advertised. Then I'm sure there's those elite who won't buy well written screenplays.
I don't know. I thought kingpin and something about Mary were fantastic. I think a lot of films now are turning into series rather than one good film.
Ok Kingpin was hilarious! I forgot about that one!
Good question. The last comedies I recorded into my cable box are those you actually mentioned. And City Slickers. And Groundhog Day. And ... many more classics.
I have enjoyed the recent action/comedies of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, though.They call it the Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End. These are certainly different to the classics.
Some recent American comedies that I found actually funny were: Tropic Thunder, The Interview, This is The End. Definitely more crude than Blazing Saddles and The Bird Cage, etc. But weren't Blazing Saddles and The Bird Cage also relatively more pointed than others of the time and previously?
If I want funny, lately, which I often don't, I'll watch kid movies. Sometimes they are really good. Or maybe I'm just a big kid. I love Lego Batman. I like the Hotel Transylvania movies and Despicable Me.
Some movies made me laugh really hard. The 40 Year Old Virgin. Anchorman (just the first one). Meet the Millers. But they are a bit...low brow.
When Harry Met Sally is probably my favorite but I adored Throw Mama From The Train. I was writing a book, at the time it came out, so the opening scene just killed me (pun intended). I also loved the way "You lied to me" was delivered. Perfect movie.
I think every movie became a Superhero thing and all comedy went to cable.
Oh I LOVE "When Harry Met Sally" --- I used to play over and over when Billy Crystal would spit the grape seeds thinking the car window was open, LOL. It was too perfect. Today's comedy don't have that arresting humor that is sprinkled here and there at the right timing. It's too "forced"...
Dumb mindless comedy took over ("Dumb and Dumber" for example). Same reason Trump is president.
"GodBlessAmerica" didn't strike me as stupid, mindless comedy. Nor did "The Invention of Lying".
Mabye you stopped being funny. I kid, I kid. I actually really enjoy the movies you listed. But something like Blazing Saddles could not exist today.
I bought that on DVD this year - because watching it on TV every other word was bleeped? Granted some of the words in that had their time - but it's still really funny.
I agree, they are so stupid anymore. The good ole days are gone! I like watching old episodes of Johnny Carson when I can. He was the best for late nite t.v.