How many of you....


...watched this as a kid, thought it was funny, but when you watched it as an adult, didn't find it funny?

See, I first saw this movie when I was a kid, and at my grandparents' house. I happily laughed alongside them and though it was a very funny movie :).

Flash forward 20-ish years, and I try watching it again with my parents, and frankly, I don't find any of it funny. A lot of the characters are annoying (I really wanted to shoot that mother-in-law with the shrill voice, and her stupid beach-bum son), or extremely dumb, or not memorable. And when the firemen gave up on trying to save the lot of them, because they wouldn't listen about the ladder's weight capacity, I was thinking they deserved everything they got.

What's really crazy is, $350,000 is still a lot of money, even today. I can't imagine what a fortune it was in 1963.

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I appreciate it more as an adult.

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