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Four Super Funny Classic Comedies
These are four of my favorite classical comedies of all times.
Young Frankenstein
This is a parody of the old horror movie: Frankenstein. This movie is filmed in the same studio with the same equipments as the older movie, to add to the realism. Though in that period there is color movies, this one is filmed in black and white to enhance the spookyness. This is about the grandchild of Dr. Frankenstein, names Dr. Frederick Frankenstein who is a medical teacher. He makes everyone call him as Dr. FRONK-en-steen, from him embarrassment of his grandfather’s experiment. One day, he gets an invitation to go to his grandfather’s old castle, where he finds Inga, his assistant, and Igor, who grandfather works with Dr. Frankenstein’s father. They help Frederick find his grandfather’s old library, and Frederick decides to experiment. This movie has no violence like in the original, but has tons and tons of laughter.
Night at the Opera
Who doesn’t love the Marx Brothers. This film is full of crazy lines and action that will get you rolling on the floor laughing. About three brothers, who hitchhikes on a ship with an opera singer, whose girlfriend is forced to sing with another singer. They escape to New York, hoping to reunite the two, and make money on way. One of my favorite comedy and I recommend it to everyone.
Some Like It Hot
Why is it always so funny to see men dressing up as women and escaping in a girl’s band to escape from a vengeful gang (with gun). The story starts with two musicians, Joe and Jerry, witnessing a massacre, much like the St. Valentine’s day massacre of 1912. They then escapes, and disguises themselves as women and joins a girl’s band to Florida. They named themselves, Josephine and Daphne. They then falls in love with the band’s singer and ukulele player, Sugar Kane (played by Marilyn Monroe. Surely that scores point.) and does wild and hilarious things to keep their disguise. A very funny watch.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Nice old ladies right? NOT!! Mortimer Brewster is a film critic about to get engaged with his fiance. He has two aunts that seems so nice that everyone in the neighbor hood loves them, and a crazy brother, Teddy, who thinks he’s Theodore Roosevelt. On the day of his honeymoon, he finds a dead body in the window seat and finds out that his aunts are actually serial kills, and doing to lonely men as charity. They poisons and buries the victims in the basement (which Teddy does, thinking he’s digging the Panama Canal and burying yellow fever victims.) and keeping it secret. Then, Mortimer’s gangster and psychotic brother, Jonathan (who scarily resembles Boris Karloff), shows up with his plastic surgeon, Dr. Einstein. They come with Jonathan’s latest murder victim, Mr. Spenalzo. This film proves that “dark humor” can be just as funny as any comedies. NOTE: this movie contains no violence and dead bodies. All the scenes involving dead bodies are played in the dark.
