Hey
since I LOVE this movie, I would like to ask y'all the following:
are there any other ridiculous Comedy-movies like these (comedies, people, NO horror!) that are just as ridiculous but super-fun like these? Preferably the '80s, but that's no must! :)
MANY THANKS!
Bye for now
Rambo:First Blood Part II makes me laugh quite a bit.
Call me Snake.
They Live, Remo Williams the adventure begins, The Golden Child.
"Life is pain, and we have to scrape the joy out of it every chance we get." - Rod Kimble
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I'd have thought Iceman Cometh would be a far better ridiculous Yuen Biao film. Or Peacock King, except it's not that good.
Time to blow
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I will sample this dubbing at a more opportune time. However, I would recommend buying it, preferably on region 2 so you get the Bey Logan commentary.
Time to blow
caddyshack and stripes are both 80s wacky.
real genius.
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This isn't that easy to define as just comedy. It's Action-Adventure-Comedy-Horror-Fantasy-Kung-Fu.
The perfect companion to it I find is 'Army of Darkness' another film that is all over the place with a slightly idiotic hero.
Time Bandits is a pretty underrated comedy-adventure and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
Excellent choice with Army of Darkness!
Also I agree with the other poster, Remo Williams: Adventures Begins is similar.
Tango and Cash is also a great movie for that kind of comedy / adventure.
Probably the closest match in style that I can think of (though it is "early 90s" rather than 80s) is the original movie of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which isn't the same as the TV show). Spoofs horror elements, but definitely "spoof"; after years of the TV show being around, a lot of people seem to forget how much just the title was a joke of its own.
From the 80s, with a ridiculous style that is in some ways similar to Big Trouble (a lot of purposefully stilted dialog creating comic effect, even if the movie is slightly less overtly comedic in its overall style), there is Streets of Fire. One of those movies where it seems like every time someone appears on screen, it's a then-unknown who you now recognize.
An American Werewolf in London is a ridiculous 80s horror-comedy that leans significantly more toward the horror side than this movie does. If that isn't too horror-ish for you, then another one that is kinda similar (though not as good) is Innocent Blood (which I've seen mockingly referred to as "A French Vampire in Pittsburgh" to accentuate its similarities to American Werewolf) in which you get to see Don Rickles play a mob lawyer who gets turned into vampire (along with the rest of Robert Loggia's mobsters).
Flipping to the other side (absolutely no horror or action style, but full blown farce comedy ridiculousness) there's Oscar. It's a Stallone farce comedy set during Prohibition, but he basically plays the straight man looking a bit befuddled much of the time (which he does pretty well). It will depend on your preferences in comedic style, but the rest of the cast is pretty great (Marissa Tomei, Tim Curry, Chazz Palmenteri, Don Ameche as the family priest, Kirk Douglas in a cameo as Stallone's father, among others).
And to mention something that in some ways is down a pretty different path, I'll throw out a couple of adventure movies with liberal doses of comedy mixed in from Hitchcock's British period in the 1930s. The two I have in mind are The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes.
Buckaroo Banzai - not that funny, but supremely ridiculous
how bout -
Fletch
Spies Like Us
Better Off Dead
Howard The Duck
Krull
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