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It was like one of those late 60's comedies that aren't funny at all.
It's one of the few romantic comedies that work.
Less stereotypical than a lot of other romantic comedies.
Yep - and one of My Favorite Comedies too, that seems to get better and better each time I catch it!
Once they started working together Buster Keaton and Roscoe Arbuckle made their first half-dozen short comedies in New York, from spring through fall of 1917.
This is one of the greatest comedies ever made, and will achieve instant cult status if ever released on DVD. - MERK
The Out-of-Towners is one of the better comedies I have seen.
"Evil Dead II" is one of the most hilarious, over-the-top, gory, and tasteless comedies of all time.
Lots of those old comedies had some unbelievable stories, but the character development was such that you had some identification with the people.
"With Friends Like These" is a gem of a movie waiting to be discovered by millions of people who are intelligent, love comedies, and have a deep feeling for the human condition -- especially as it involves competition among friends for fame and fortune.
Unlike most comedies today, however --which pathetically attempt to garner laughs from the audience through the characters' mindless "schtick," pratfalls, and mean-spirited jabs at one other -- the humor in "With Friends Like These" derives organically from the situation the characters find themselves in, aided by their idiosyncratic personalities.
Apart from the James Bond-movies and a small number of comedies, they are usually pure crap.
The pacing of this movie is breathless (it's like a Bugs Bunny cartoon) and it's one of the few comedies that can legitimately claim to have a laugh virtually every minute.
One of the best comedies of the late 90s.
I'm 12, and I have seen my share of cheesy comedies, Good Burger, Heavyweights and the rest.
Could it be a little bit of jealousy because it is a foreign film from a country with no tradition in this genre but that nonetheless achieves what most American romantic comedies don't?
But what separates this picture from all the other action / comedies ever made is that the screenplay is so sharp and original.
A limp musical remake of one of the great screwball comedies of all time, "The Awful Truth," this film is a inadvertent valentine to Cary Grant, Irene Dunne and Ralph Bellamy, all of whom are sorely missed.
The second and third horror stories were more of comedies and the movie got less horrific after the initial 20 minutes.
I was highly surprised that this pearl of a movie has only an average rating here in IMDb, because this is one of the finest comedies of all-time!
This movie, and every other remakes of french comedies by American directors are just awful (Father's day, Mixed Nuts, Three fugitives...).
A lot of so called comedies get one or two big laughs in the whole film, often by reaching down for a reference to one or another substance that comes from the human body.
I find it odd that my two all time favorite romantic comedies have never been released on DVD.
I love romantic comedies, and if I want to see more one movie a year, I can't afford standards.
I don't know why Danny Aiello hasn't had more leading roles before this, and I was impressed by Jane Curtain in a drama since she's really only been in comedies, like SNL.
Terry Zwigoff, however, is a filmmaker very much in tune with his subjects; his fictional films, the comic-book adaptation Ghost World is cynical (or skeptical) but with true heart, and Bad Santa is as dark as comedies can get.
Whereas many in numbers but lesser in greatness coming-of-age comedies from more recent times enjoy piling on smut and vulgarity, Gregory's Girl is able to establish such a thing exists within the universe of these characters but, crucially, amongst all the funny stuff going on around it, is able to produce laughs out of it without ever actually resorting to it.
This movie debuted the same year as ADAM'S RIB and both screwball comedies have a lot in common.
This is one of my favourite outings from Bud & Lou, the start of their phenomenally successful career in the service comedies and one of a series of smile-jerkers from them and Universal.
Of all stupid comedies I have ever seen, this one takes the Lombardi Trophy.
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