2024 Summer Movie Talk – Part 2

2024 Summer Movie Talk – Part 2

Comedy

I’ll list what I think are among the best or the most popular or the most interesting comedy movies in approximately chronological order.  I’ve reviewed a number of these movies so if you want my detailed opinion, you can do a search on the site.

1. IT’S A GIFT (1934)
2. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)
3. MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (1935)
4. THE BANK DICK (1940)
5. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
6. THE ODD COUPLE (1968)
7. BLAZING SADDLES (1974)
8. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
9. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)
10. GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)
11. PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987)
12. BEETLEJUICE (1988)
13. UNCLE BUCK (1989)
14. GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
15. SO I MARRIED AN AX MURDERER (1993)
16. AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (1997)
17. THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)
18. OFFICE SPACE (1999)
19. GALAXY QUEST (1999)
20. SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004)
21. IDIOCRACY (2006)

Now this is just my list.  Your list will be different.  It has to be.  More than any other genre comedy is incredibly personal and therefore subjective.  It is also age specific.  My children would list twenty movies from 2000 to the present day that I haven’t seen nor would want to watch.  I have tried to leave out comedies that I consider marginal that happen to overlap with my most active movie watching era.  So, I haven’t included “The Blues Brothers,” “Caddyshack.” “Stripes,” “Animal House,” “Meatballs,” “National Lampoon: Vacation,” “Trading Places” and a bunch of other movies from my heyday.  I put Ghostbusters in as the best representative for that era.  Someone else would have chosen otherwise.

I hope my list will inspire a million spirited comments.  Everyone has their favorites and their turkeys.  Unlike politics we can all have our opinions on comedy movies without fear of doing any damage.  Have at it.