This is one of those movies that I absolutely adored when it first came out, but I haven’t ever really re-watched it in the decades since because I’m afraid it might not have aged well. And I prefer to remember it fondly.
The old ZAZ movies were great because they knew to hang the constant gags on a plot that, threadbare as it was, made it a silly movie and not a tedious collection of parody sketches where the actors just don’t bother changing costumes.
I would expect most of Mike Meyers’s work to do well because his jokes were always wordplay and fart humor, rather than racism and coping with being a cishet white guy.
A ton of movies from the 80s and 90s hold up well except for maybe one or two jokes that haven’t aged well. In most cases, they could cut those specific jokes out without losing anything and the rest of the movie aged perfectly fine.
This is one of those movies that I absolutely adored when it first came out, but I haven’t ever really re-watched it in the decades since because I’m afraid it might not have aged well. And I prefer to remember it fondly.
Just saw it again the other day. It’s still really good imo.
I think no comedy from the 80s or 90s has aged well.
Just watched naked gun, aged like fine wine
I wish that kind of slap stick comedy was still a thing, Top Secret is wonderful as well
The old ZAZ movies were great because they knew to hang the constant gags on a plot that, threadbare as it was, made it a silly movie and not a tedious collection of parody sketches where the actors just don’t bother changing costumes.
Naked Gun, The Mask, Top Gun, Gremlins 2, Wayne’s World, Groundhog Day, …
I would expect most of Mike Meyers’s work to do well because his jokes were always wordplay and fart humor, rather than racism and coping with being a cishet white guy.
I’m sorry, but are you even familiar with Robin Williams’s work?
Yes and several of them aged poorly like Moscow on the Hudson
I mean, there’s aging poorly and there’s sucked the whole time
A ton of movies from the 80s and 90s hold up well except for maybe one or two jokes that haven’t aged well. In most cases, they could cut those specific jokes out without losing anything and the rest of the movie aged perfectly fine.
Uhm… Space balls?
What movie is this?
I think it’s called There’s Something About Mary?
There’s Something About Mary. It was hilarious at one point
https://archive.org/details/Theres_Something_About_Mary_FOX_WOC_2001-05-18.mkv
Same! I might bust it out and try it on the wife and kids tonight.