Great, but definitlely not one of the funniest comedies of all time

Just out of curiosity, what are some of your favorite comedies?

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There's not a lot of movies out there that can compare to the wit and style this film has. I'm 24 and grew up watching this film because my mom loved it, and it still holds up to this day as one of my favorites. Outside of my own personal bias, I have a hard time believing that someone couldn't consider it one of best comedy flicks out there.

So it only has one or two laugh out loud moments but you still considered it to be "great"?

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I'm going to completely copy my response to another topic, with one or two minor changes...... now that's comedy!!

I have to agree more with the OP than others. Then again I'm a hard person to make laugh, though I didn't think SpaceBalls was that much better than this.... I do tend to agree that the Zucker Bros are a bit funnier, they seem to have more witty "Fletch" type jokes.

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I think someone was closer to the truth when they said this movie was more about homage to the older films that it spoofs.

Also, here's a quote from the trivia section for this movie

".....it was considered by all involved to be an abysmal failure. It was only after a marathon cutting session that they produced the final cut of the film, which both Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks considered to be far superior to the original product. At one point they noted that for every joke that worked, there were three that fell flat. So they went in and trimmed all the jokes that didn't work."



I felt that probably half of the jokes left in fell flat, but really this isn't much different that Gene and Mel (not much difference between 25% and 13% plus, if you think about it, I might have liked some of the 75% that they cut!)

Clearly even they didn't think this was much more than "far superior to an abysmal failure"!

Yeah, I laughed more at Blazing Saddles. But had some hilarious moments, indeed (better than another horror parody from those days, The Fearless Vampire Killers, which is entertaining but not funny).

Actually, I like this one better than Blazing Saddles and I laughed pretty hard at that one. YF is not just the homage--that's the icing on the cake that helps set up the humour.

One thing I like about Young Frankenstein more than Blazing Saddles is that YF has a more coherent plot. Everything fits together whereas, in Blazing Saddles, they threw everything at the screen and hoped it would stick. And stick most of it did, but the ending still loses a lot of steam once they explode the fourth wall off the set. Contrast that with YF where all of the sexual tension and innuendo and comparisons between Frankenstein and his creation are sent up in one big blast of "Oh, Sweet Mystery of Life".

It doesn't make Blazing Saddles terrible in comparison to YF or anybody who doesn't like YF some kind of idiot, but it also doesn't mean that, just because someone comes on here and says they didn't laugh (or didn't laugh much), YF isn't a classic or funny comedy.


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I disagree but then again I almost never laugh out loud when I see a comedy. The ones that do succeed and keep succeeding when I rewatch the film mostly end up being one of my favorites.

so that would mean that Young Frankenstein is definatly in it for me (I liked it better than Blazing Saddles as well)

One of the funniest movies I have ever seen was Kind Hearts and Coronets. It didn't have one "laugh out loud" moment in it, but it was absolutely brillant. Very dry comedy.





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