NEW QUESTION:
Name a comedy you love that nearly everybody else thinks is not funny?Ebert got into a series of questions about this, mostly involving comedies he recommended that were met with letters telling him how wrong he is.
"As a critic I am at the service of my personal reaction. If I laughed, I have to say so. I cannot suppress that information and lecture the filmmakers on their taste." This was in response to his praise for
Kingpin.
"I grant you the vulgarity, the sexism the cheap laughs, even the dreck. But I laughed. Something about the movie's heedless spirit struck me as funny, and once I got hooked, everything seemed funny." He also mentions
Congo, which he insists is a comedy mislabeled as an action drama.
I have 2 that come to mind immediately because I saw them in empty theaters and bought them.
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy is even funnier than their TV show and
Brain Donors is a modern day attempt at a Marx Brothers movie that would place 3rd if ranked in a list with Marx Brothers movies. John Turturro plays Groucho, and I rest my case on this alone. (
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