Reader's Digest Sellected 20 Funniest Films all-time. (너무 무거운 주제만 다룬다고 하시니..)

[KARL LEE]

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Here are the top 20 funniest films -- according to the Reader's Digest

1. MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (2002) The life story of Toula (Nia Vardalos) whose family instructs her to marry a Greek boy and make Greek babies. Instead she chooses Ian (John Corbett). The collision of cultures is inevitable. ('I'm a vegetarian,' Ian explains to a Greek aunt. 'That's OK. I'll make lamb.') Fine performances all around, especially from Michael Constantine as Toula's ethnocentric dad.

2. THE GOLD RUSH (1925) By common agreement (including Charlie's) this is Chaplin's greatest silent film. Alternating between heads-on slapstick and poetic mime, the famous Little Tramp pans for nuggets in Alaska -- and winds up broke. In a classic scene, he and his customary foil, Big Jim (Mack Swain), get so hungry that Charlie cooks a boot for dinner, carving it like a steak, then delicately twirls the shoelaces around his fork pasta-style. Chaplin's comic techniques were to set the standard for the next 50 years.

3. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) The inventive British sketch comedians (John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle) do battle with the Arthurian legend, complete with a Trojan Rabbit and a Holy Hand Grenade. Tradition loses.

4. SHREK (2001) Once upon a time there was an Ogre (Mike Myers) whose swamp got overrun by intruders from fairy tales and Disney movies, including Pinocchio, three little pigs and a big bad wolf. All are refugees from the kingdom of the wicked Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow). With the help of an articulate donkey (Eddie Murphy), Shrek sets things right and, along the way, wins the love of Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), who has a secret but endearing flaw. Computer animation with great humor and, even rarer, heart.

5. AIRPLANE! (1980) The ultimate send-up of the disaster genre. The directors/writers Jim Abrahams, and the brothers Jerry and David Zucker provide an avalanche of visual gags, parodies and puns. ('Surely you can't be serious.' 'I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.') Don't like a joke? Wait 10 seconds and there'll be a new one. With Robert Hays as a failed pilot, Julie Hagerty as a flighty flight attendant, and a grand cast of poker-faced stiffs, including Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack.

6. MEET THE PARENTS (2000) Ben Stiller tries to ingratiate himself with his girlfriend's mom and dad. The trouble is, her old man (Robert De Niro) is ex-CIA, and paranoid about the young man whose job description is Male Nurse. Director Jay Roach keeps this a winner from opening frame to fade-out.

7. IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963) Stanley Kramer's over-the-top chase movie, with top bananas of comedy, including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jimmy Durante, and Jonathan Winters, all outpaced by Mr. Cool himself, Spencer Tracy.

8. THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998) Indeed there is, as played by Cameron Diaz, and Ben Stiller has craved it since high school. Now that she's a lady every other man does, too. Sophomoric? Yes. Hilarious? Absolutely. Matt Dillon helps.

9. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978) John Landis's tasteless, absurd, and boisterously entertaining portrait of fraternity life, vulgarian-style. Among the overindulging toga-wearers: John Belushi, Tim Matheson and Tom Hulce.

10. PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987) A tired businessman (Steve Martin) tries desperately to get home. Nobody listens, except a lumpish, insensitive passer-by (John Candy.) Disaster follows. The cast plays it for reality as well as laughs, thanks to director John Hughes.

11. MY COUSIN VINNY (1992) Joe Pesci, a Brooklyn loudmouthpiece heads to Wazoo, Alabama, to defend his innocent cousin (Ralph Macchio) in a murder trial. Ba-da-bing farce, with a star turn by Marisa Tomei as Joe's amusing side-of-da-mouth girlfriend.

12. AMERICAN PIE (1999) Familiar story of young men trying to lose their virginity and being thwarted at every turn. Unlike earlier teenflicks, however, this farce doesn't put down grownups, and gives some of its best lines to female characters. Ultimately, however, what gives this Pie its tart sweetness is an endearing cast, led by Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy and Alyson Hannigan.

13. GALAXY QUEST (1999) Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Tony Shalhoub star as the washed-up cast of a long-canceled TV series. When a marauding race of aliens comes calling, the actors resume their former roles -- this time with feeling.

14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) Director/co-writer Billy Wilder sends up gangster movies in this ribald adventure of two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.) They witness a mob rubout and join an all-girl band to escape from their pursuers. On the way, the cross-dressers encounter a fabulous cast of caricatures including Marilyn Monroe, the band's lead singer, and smitten zillionaire Joe E. Brown, who plans to wed Lemmon, even when he learns the truth. 'Nobody's perfect,' claims Brown. This film is.

15. GROUNDHOG DAY (1993) Egomaniacal weatherman Bill Murray spends a night in Punxsutawney, Pa., where the local groundhog is supposed to see his shadow and predict how long winter will last. Trouble is, Murray gets caught in a time trap, and keeps repeating the day, minute by minute, day after day. Scrooge becomes saint, but not before some funny and wise interludes, supervised by director Harold Ramis.

16. THE JERK (1979) Steve Martin was just one of the 'Wild and Crazy Guys' of 'Saturday Night Live' when he burst onto the screen in this farce about a white moron adopted by black sharecroppers. Like Forrest Gump in a later era, Martin succeeds in spite of himself, and we laugh all the way to the bank. Director Carl Reiner may not be much on nuance, but he knows how to tell a joke.

17. THE FRESHMAN (1925) The third of a great silent film trio (the other two were Chaplin and Keaton), Harold Lloyd did all his own stunts, many of them dangerous, with skill and humor. Here he's a frosh trying to ingratiate himself with fellow students.

18. DUCK SOUP (1933) Perhaps the purest film farce ever made. Directed con brio by Leo McCarey, the film offers no love story or subplots, just Harpo, Chico and Groucho Marx at their manic peak. En route to a slam-bang finale they satirize war and the country's leading politicians. (Groucho: 'It's too late to [prevent a war]. I just paid a month's rent on the battlefield.')

19. A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988) A shaggy fish tale, written by former Monty Python veteran John Cleese, who also stars in this caper gone mad. Fellow Pythonite Michael Palin helps enormously, as do Jamie Lee Curtis and a frantically stuttering Kevin Kline.

20. GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) House haunted? Hire Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, who know how to dispel ghosts and dispense jokes. So do Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis and director Ivan Reitman.

[clare]

오홋.. 4번 슈렉~~꼬기에 피오나공듀가 나와요^^새롭네요 여기에 이런글도 올라오다니!!칼~ 참으로 부단히 노력하십니다*_* 옛날영화가 많네요~

[michelll]

본 것들도 많고, 안 본것도 있고..6번을 봐야겠네요. 마이클 더글러스를 잊을 수 없으니...비디오 나왔나 몰라.

[KARL LEE]

저는 개인적으로 11번을 재미 있게 봤지요..한국에도 비디오 테이프로 나왔는지 궁금하군요..Marisa Tomei는 깜직한 연기로 그해 아카데미 여우 조연상을 수상했지요..