The Funniest Movies That Weren’t Intended To Be Funny
Everybody has seen a movie that was marketed as a comedy, but ended up being just a steaming pile ofunfunny. Bucky Larson: Born to be a star, comes to mind as the most recent to be included in that category. What about that special breed of movie that is unintentionally humorous? Movies that are made in earnest, yet through a combination of awful plot development, scenery chewing acting, and a terrible script make it actually amusing.
It is hard to believe that the makers of 1987-s Jaws, The Revenge, actually thought they were making a serious film, especially with a tagline ‘This time, it-s personal-, but they did.Check out this link here. If you can get past the fact that the Brody boys are all grown up now and after what they endured on Amity still go in the ocean, the makers of the film ask us to buy into a shark following Ellen Brody to the Bahamas for revenge. The most laughable scene? So many, but I always laugh out loud when Michael Caine-s character survives an attack, swims underwater for quite a ways, and emerges completely dry.
The 1936 film Reefer Madness was originally released as Tell Your Children. The film was financed by a church and was supposed to show the evils of using marijuana. The movie is so melodramatic and over the top that it-s hard to believe it wasn-t meant to be a comedy. Here is a line from the foreword “Marihuana is that drug – a violent narcotic – an unspeakable scourge – The Real Public Enemy Number One!’ It just gets funnier from there.
Showgirls is a film that was supposedly a ‘drama-. The film opened in 1995 to much hoopla because of its exorbitant budget and copious amounts of sex and nudity. The story sounds good enough; mysterious drifter girl rises from stripper to showgirl in glittery Las Vegas, loses herself, finds herself AND scene. Silly dialogue and hilariously aerobic sexual encounters catapult this film from drama to comedy before you can say ‘sequin-.
Sure, these films are bad, but they have the honor of becoming cult classics, and will live on forever as such.