Did not age well at all

It was released in 1987 and, O God, it looks like 1987! They don't have cell phones! How can I watch something so DATED?!!! Classic comedy always ages well, and this movie is a classic. It will still be funny fifty years from now, just as many of the comedies of the 1930s are still funny today.

This post makes me think modern audiences are too dumb to understand the greatness of this movie.

I did not care for this movie when I saw it in 1987 in the theater. I watched it again probably 20 years later and liked it. I watch it every year now. I think you have to be a little older to appreciate it.

At least its better than Christmas Vacation, one of the most painfully unfunny movies I’ve ever seen.

I think the OP didn't age well.

Your thread did not age well. It is at least 2 years old. Only three sentences but it was a "slog" to read it.

This is a wonderful comedy. Really funny! Great for the holidays.

It was a the sweetest sight I ever saw.

This is one of the movies I missed during the 1987 Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season. I don't know why I practically saw everything else. I was in Oklahoma City stationed at an Air Force Base nearby. I do remember there were TWO historic snowstorms that holiday season, one of them was Christmas Day. I remember this because I had to drive through the snow to sign out a bunch of codes to the AWACS(big plane with radar dome on top) Alert Crew, which was swapping out that day. I was 22 years old driving through a snowstorm on Christmas Day thinking to myself "I've got to get out of the Midwest".

The next year I got shipped overseas and rarely since have I returned to the Midwest. Around 1990 I was in a dorm in Turkey overseas and my friend had this movie on VHS. We laughed so hard at the devil scene one of the funniest times I had there. I think this is John Candy's best movie and Steve Martin's 1st or 2nd best as well. Martin's next movie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, might be his funniest ymmv.