I want to watch a funny movie but I feel like compared to TV shows, movies rarely make me really laugh. I've cried laughing watching shows like I Think You Should Leave but most movies I can honestly say I've only ever mustered a chortle or snort every now and then. What is the funniest movie(s), to you? For me, just off the cuff, I'd probably have to say Airplane!
Airplane is a parody of the endless parade of Airport movies that was inflicted on the American public in the 1970s. The entire low quality made-for-TV-movie genre has completely disappeared, the disaster subgenre along with it, satirizing it makes no impact today.
Meanwhile I have never seen any of those movies and I find Airplane! hilarious.
9/11 kind of killed the obnoxious airport movie, but they kept making disaster movies up till like an hour ago.
Actually it's a 1:1 parody of 1957 disaster flick Zero Hour