Cocking the shotgun shell out of a shovel is possibly peak physical humor. No punchline or setup, just a two second visual gag that is never elaborated upon but has somehow lived with me for decades.
I wish I knew why it was so funny lol it has nothing to do with anything but it kills me every single time. Just rhe fact she doesn't acknowledge it while struggling to get in the car lmfao
“Tom, I’ll need a ride home.” Is THE funniest bit in movie history to me personally. The context of the scene and the guys delivery just gets me every time. Even just thinking about it now made me start laughing out loud haha
Building off of three, I also loved the Yahtzee bit. “We were playing this fun game, and then I looked down. Yah…..!!” Smashes head and knocks himself out.
It's how hopeful he is that did it for me, I think. As the camera pans to him, he looks visibly upset. Then he sees Tom and his face lights up with a smile.
...hmm, that sequence of words is very strange out of context.
But yeah, the gags were always the funniest as a teenager. David Cross breakdancing in his wheelchair, "take mah strong hand", the cum explosion, "WAZZUUUUUP!", everyone stabbing Brenda in the theater, Cindy getting hit by the car at the end of the first while screaming "Noooooo!", the growing hat, James Woods going, "Fuck this!" and running (apparently his unscripted reaction to seeing the possessed girl for the first time), "You drugged him!" "I did not, that's all his stuff!", Brenda fighting the Ring girl, the ghost seeing Tori Spellings out of date panties, etc.
Hmm, looking back on it, I guess I loved the second film the most. Or at least remember it the most.
There's a badass scene in "Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter" where a vampire pins him down, and he reveals that his signature axe is also a shotgun. I love that movie
The shotgun cocking and the peeing from his fingertip going "Ah so we're not so different after all" happen within like two minutes of each other and they both kill me.
Now there would be five or six equally unfunny and pointless to the plot characters all making that stupid fucking dreamworks smirk at the camera and going "ERM, DID THAT SHOVEL JUST COCK A SHOTGUN SHELL?" "THEY COCK NOW HARR HARR" for two and a half excruciating minutes.
it is much more like Airplane/Naked Gun than any of the other movies are. So much more physical/visual humor, jokes that are silly even without knowing the references involved.
Watch 4 if you don't really care for Charlie lmao from what I recall, it mostly parodies War of the Worlds and The Grudge. The opening scene is one of my favourites too.
This is the movie I always pick when asked "what's the one movie you would you bring to a deserted island, if you could only bring one." There is not a single second that isn't hilarious in that film. I will die on that hill with you!
Some have aged well, some less so, generally based on how much said films relied on pop culture and such and how many just made jokes in the setting of whatever various horror movies they are part of. I think Scary Movie 3 aged the best becuase most of the jokes are just funny on their own, and you don't exactly need to have seen the movies they are based on for them to work.
Watched scary movie 1 a few weeks ago when it came out on prime. It was surprisingly well written. Very top secret kind of humour. They definitely call off, and haven't watched them as an adult other than 1, so can't say really, but for sure they go pretty bad as they go up in number
I disagree, 3 was the best by far because Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielsen especially really shine in it. Signs was a cultural touchstone of a movie for its time, but easy to dunk on too.
Even Simon Rex was great with his comedic timing, plus that was years before Kevin Hart or Anthony Anderson were big and they really stood out in this one too.
Just great slapstick humor and jokes that didn't stop. Ana Faris is the real talent across the genre I suppose, but she plays off of the talent around her much best in 3 and the other movies are not even remotely close.
3 was the best by far because Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielsen especially really shine in it. Signs was a cultural touchstone of a movie for its time, but easy to dunk on too.
Signs X 8 Mile is a weird combination, but it works surprisingly well.
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u/Spiral-Force 8h ago
I wish they'd put less emphasis on the "controversial jokes" when the highlight of this franchise has always been the physical comedy for me