Thursday, April 01, 2010

It's Funny To Me, Damn It!

Are there any movies that you find hilarious that most people, including the critics, thought totally stunk?

I feel that way about Step Brothers (2008). When it came out, most everyone I talked to said that it licked. Then when it came on cable, Gancey Girlfriend saw it, told me it was hilarious, and she was right.

However, here is what the critics thought:

Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun Times gave it one and a half stars, said it was too mean-spirited, and the characters swore too much for his liking. Oh, boo fucking hoo, Roger!

Peter Travers from Rolling Stone
gave it two and a half stars, and he said that while much of it is gut-busting funny, some parts are "funny not so much." How does a movie that busts your gut from laughing with a few bits that don't work only get two and a half stars? Isn't it the movie's job to make you laugh? If it does that, I'd say it's a success, and it should get the three stars because anything less implies a crap movie, as far as I'm concerned.

To me, the movie is funny as hell, and best of all, it added a word to the Gancey Vernacular: Doucher, as in, "I can't believe I've been living here for two weeks, and I'm walking around this place thinking I've got a huge doucher for a stepbrother"

How's about you, Seven Readers? Any movies you love and most everyone hates?

21 comments:

HeatherLynn said...

Not everyone loved "Joe Dirt", and my friends especially hated "Super Troopers"...but I loved, loved, LOVED both of them!

~hl~

JerseySjov said...

Rolling Kansas and A Night at the Roxbury

Heff said...

It was better than I expected, I'll admit that.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater said...

Lyn: Joe Dirt is really not all that bad, and I really like Kid Rock's role.

Jov: I don't know Rolling Kansas, but Roxbury has some funny parts. "Emelio!!!"

Heff: Yes. I hear that a lot from the ladies.

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Anonymous said...

Hmmm... Sounds like Mr. Travers reacted to this film much the way you react to Caddy Shack.

Mr. Shife said...

Love Step Brothers. So damn funny. A few others that I think are hilarious but not viewed upon favorably by the masses include Sorority Girls, Just Friends, The Big Lebowski, and Super Troopers.

Michael5000 said...

I didn't get why everybody clusterfucked on "Ishtar." I thought it was reasonably funny. I guess I didn't ~love~ it though...

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater said...

Shife: Big Lebowski takes a few viewings. Each time I love it more. Upon the 3rd viewing, it kicks ass.

5000: I need to see Ishtar. How bad could it be?

JerseySjov said...

white chicks!!

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater said...

Jov: Hahaha. Never saw it, but those guys looked like white aliens, not white chicks. Remember Soul Man starring C. Thomas Howell? Kind of a similar premise with similar results.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater said...

Jov: Hahaha. Never saw it, but those guys looked like white aliens, not white chicks. Remember Soul Man starring C. Thomas Howell? Kind of a similar premise with similar results.

BeckEye said...

One word: XANADU.