Chewers Funniest Films of the 90's

2.

1992, dir. Phil Alden Robinson

My voice is my passport. Verify Me.

Fucking. Perfection.

I'm gonna go with one that not many people would add:

3. Multiplicity (1996, d. Harold Ramis)

Not that I prefer this to more obvious '90s choices, like Lebowski, There's Something About Mary, or Ramis' own Groundhog Day. I just want this film to be represented here, because Doug 3 ("I've never cried like that before ... except when the souffle fell") and Doug 4 ("Count Chocula") make me lose my shit every time.

A CHAINSAW???

Also, longtime Keaton fan, having four of him is great, and it's always good to see Harris Yulin. Also Doug is named in tribute to Ramis' late great one-time collaborator Douglas Kenney.

Another lesser-known one:

4. Forgotten Silver (1995, d. Peter Jackson/Costa Botes)

Gotta love mockumentaries, and this one actually fooled New Zealanders (so the story goes — maybe NZ Chewers might disagree) until Jackson and Botes fessed up.

On the mockumentary tip, I foresee Christopher Guest on this list.

And a real documentary:

5. American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999)

Even if the rest of the doc were completely unfunny, which it isn't, this moment — you know it if you've seen it — made me howl laughing for, oh, about ten minutes straight.

6. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)

Does this place look like I'm fuckin' married? The toilet seat's up, man!

Am I the only one who gives a shit about the rules? Mark it zero!

Shut the fuck up, Donny.

This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!

Yeah, "fuck it." That's what they *all* say!

This aggression will not stand, man.

He had to go door to door telling everybody he was a pederast.

The most quotable film of the 90's, if not the most of all time, and the Coens' funniest by a long shot. Really, I don't have to say anything else.

7.  'Dumb and Dumber'

God help me, this film absolutely kills me whenever I see it.  

Continuing with picks nobody else will make:

8. Naked Lunch (1991, d. David Cronenberg)

Recently someone asked Dave if he would ever consider making a comedy. His response was that he's already made some. It's very deadpan comedy, granted, but lines like "I don't wanna fuck him, I just wanna meet him" keep me chortling through this imaginative Brundlefly combo of the sensibilities of Cronenberg and Burroughs. Also, Weller gets a lifetime coolness pass for this, Buckaroo Banzai and RoboCop.

9.  'Bowfinger'

Hilarious from start to finish. Martin and Murphy are fantastic, but it's the supporting cast that really makes this thing fly.  Christine Baranski steals every scene that she's in.

10.  'The Ref'

Some of the best writing on film.  It pusses out in the last 10 minutes, but that doesn't diminish the rest of the film.  Spacey and Davis are on fire.

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7.  'Dumb and Dumber'

 

God help me, this film absolutely kills me whenever I see it.  

There's NOTHING wrong with admitting to loving Dumb and Dumber.

Pills are good!

PILLS ARE GOOD!!!!!!

For sure, it's an eternal classic.

11. Groundhog Day (1993) dir. Harold Ramis

Am I right or am I right?  Right.  Right.

BING!

C'mon people!!!

12. Quick Change (Murray/Franklin, 1990)

Sometimes, their noses are horns.

A strange, crazy crime-comedy that highlights Bill Murray at his most bitingly cynical--you've never seen a more soft-spoken bank robber--and a comedy that accentuates a rare sense of danger and suspense. The supporting cast is gangbusters too, from Randy Quaid's delirium, Geena Davis is wonderful, Jason Robards is hilariously confused and world-weary, and Kurtwood Smith shines in his short appearance as a psychotic gangster.

I will gladly surrender the #2 spot to The Big Lebowski. It is inarguably the COMEDY OF THE DECADE. Anyway...

13. Johnny Suede

1991, dir. Tom DiCillo

Nobody does "dim" quite like Brad Pitt. In this hipster comedy by ex-Jarmusch cinematographer DiCillo, Pitt plays a cat who's too cool for school & too dumb for life. Shenanigans abound. Cameos by Nick Cave & a pre-fame Samuel L. Jackson up the hip quotient.

One of my Top 20 desert island films.

14. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1996) d. Terry Gilliam

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."

"It' ok, just admiring the shape of your skull!"

15.

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1993, dir. Thomas Schlamme

Heed! Paper! NOW! I tell ya that boy's 'ed is like SPUTNIK! I bet he's gonna go cry 'imself to sleep tonight on 'is huge pillow!

Endlessly quotable. Comedy perfection.

"My name is John Johnson but everyone here calls me Vicki."

16. Galaxy Quest (1999) dir. Dean Parisot

Please refer to Arjen Rudd's thread on this.

http://www.chud.com/community/t/139634/galaxy-quest-the-accidental-classic

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16. Galaxy Quest (1999) dir. Dean Parisot

 

Please refer to Arjen Rudd's thread on this.

 

http://www.chud.com/community/t/139634/galaxy-quest-the-accidental-classic

 

Rockwell's primal scream of fear upon transport fucking KILLS me.

17.

1993, dir. Ivan Reitman

Why this isn't hailed as a modern American classic is beyond me. It is a perfect movie.

18.  'Fierce Creatures'

Is it as good as 'A Fish Called Wanda'?  No.  In fact, it's not even close.  If you completely divorce yourself from AFCW, it's a damned funny film.  Cleese, in particular, has some exceedingly funny moments where he comes off as a lady's man.  

20. Dazed and Confused (1993) d. Richard Linklater

"Say, man, you got a joint?"

" No, not on me, man."

" It'd be a lot cooler if you did."

"Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."

"All right, all right, all right."
 

"Maybe the 80s will be like radical or something. I figure we'll be in our 20s and it cant' get worse."
 

The AMERICAN GRAFFITI of the "Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes" indie film movement, the film brilliantly captures a day in the life of a previous generation. Endlessly quotable and laugh out loud funny. A masterpiece.

21.Kingpin (1996)

It should be higher (and its actually a film, so...).

For my money, this is the Farrelly Bros. best movie. It's exactly Rocky if Rocky was a bitter asshole who basically deserved everything that happened to him. It shows exactly why Woody Harrelson graduated from television to film, why Randy Quaid has for all of his career (and despite his recent fortunes) been a profoundly underrated talent, and why Bill Murray is a cross-generational Lord and Savior of comedy, creating such a rancidly obnoxious and increasingly hysteric comic villain that you can't take your eyes off of. Also, not for nothing, but Kingpin also contains the absolute greatest fucking use of the Sound of Silence outside of The Graduate.

it was between 'Dumb and Dumber' and 'Kingpin' for me.

22.  South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)  dir. Trey Parker

This should have been higher, you uncle fukkas!

Also, Best Musical of the 90's.  By a fucking wide margin.  

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) dir. Tom Shadyac

Maybe doesn't need to be quite this high, stil pretty funny.

"If I'd been drinking out of the toilet, I might've been killed"

The derrier talking stunt may be juvenille but it's funny as hell.

Clerks (1994) dir. Kevin Smith

An amazing indy comedy pure and simple.  If you don't think Randal is funny then you have never worked service or retail and wished you could say those things.

Jay and Silent Bob are awesome.  Like most of the great comedies, infitely quotable.

Playing hockey on the roof of your closed store is so fantastic.

"Cute cat. What's its name?" Randal: "Annoying customer."

24. Office Space (1999)

I don't have to tell you why, right? The quintessential workplace comedy, it's hilarious from start to finish whether you've ever been trapped in a cubicle or not. Immensely quotable, and packed with memorable moments. Everybody does great work, but Stephen Root and John C. McGinley in particular absolutely kill every time they're onscreen.

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22.  South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)  dir. Trey Parker

 

This should have been higher, you uncle fukkas!

 

Also, Best Musical of the 90's.  By a fucking wide margin.  

 

 

I was thinking this came out in 2000.  My error.

I've never been to a comedy that provoked a better audience reaction than this film.  It was 90 minutes of continuous, painfully hard laughter for everyone in attendance.

25. Rushmore (1998 - d. Wes Anderson)

"She's my Rushmore, Max."

26. Living In Oblivion

1995, dir. Tom DiCillo

DiCillo's semi-autobiographical take on how NOT to make an indie film. Supposedly, "Chad Palomino", the not-so-bright, up & coming lead actor played by James Le Gros, is based on Brad Pitt. Hilarious.

27.

1994, dir. Jeremy Levin

Kind of a classic. Depp stars as a mental patient who thinks he's Don Juan & Brando is the shrink who has to figure out whether he's crazy or not. Funny & deeply romantic, the film makes a great double feature with The Princess Bride.

28.

What do you do when the president molests an underage Chinese girl? Why, fake a war as a distraction, of course!

"'54, 40 or fight.' What does that mean?. 'Remember the Maine.' 'Tippecanoe and Tyler,' too. They're war slogans Mr. Motss. We remember the slogans, we can't even remember the fucking wars. Y'know why? Cause its show business. That's why I'm here. Naked girl, covered in Napalm. Five marines Raising the Flag, Mount Suribachi. V for Victory. Y'remember the picture, fifty years from now, they'll have forgotten the war."

"This is nothing... piece of cake. Y'know, producing is being a samurai warrior. They pay you, day in, day out, for years, so that, ONE DAY, when called upon, you can respond, your training at Its peak, and save the day."

"The war ain't over til I say it's over. This is my picture. You think you're in a spot? You think this is a tight spot? Try making the Hunchback of Notre Dame when your three lead actors die, two weeks from the end of principal photography."

29. Simple Men (1992 - d. Hal Hartley)

Hate me all you want:

30. Clerks (Smith, 1994)

They always pick the most intellectually devoid movies on the rack.

Ooooooooooooooo, NAVY SEALS!!!!!!

A brilliant satire of consumerism and an essential film for anyone who's ever felt miserable on the other side of the counter, Kevin Smith's shaggy direction and raw, postmodern wit has never worked better.

31. Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)

Pull the string!

Hey, remember when Tim Burton and Johnny Depp collaborating meant something brilliant?

There's zero doubt that this is Burton's finest achievement, a gothic tall tale of the strange true story of a delusional moron who thought he was a genius, and in his mistakes became a legend. Depp is exhilarating as the larger-than-life Edward D. Wood Jr. and it has a staggering supporting cast, from Sarah Jessica Parker's jilted lover to George "The Animal" Steele's appropriately meatheaded portrayal of Tor Johnson. What's inescapable in the film and really defines it, however, is Martin Landau, who more than deserved the Oscar for playing an elderly, tasteless, and foul-mouthed Bela Lugosi. Samuel L. Jackson might've been more iconic in Pulp Fiction but just about anything Landau does as Lugosi is nothing short of hilarious. (Just one example: his handling of trick-or-treaters.)

Also, if you don't think the baptism of Bill Murray is remotely amusing, you're a soulless jackass.

32. The Muppet Christmas Carol

If you do not enjoy this movie, you have no soul. It's a tradition in my family to watch this every year, and despite the fact that I can quote every line of it, it still makes me laugh. The first Muppet movie made after Jim Henson died, but you wouldn't know by watching it. Hilarious and heartwarming, and Michael Caine is unmatched as Scrooge.

"Light the lamp, not the rat, light the lamp, not the rat!"

"Even the vegetables don't like him!"

"You can fit through those bars?"

"Yeah"

"...You are such an idiot"

"I told you, storytellers are omniscient; I know everything!"

"Hoity-toity, Mr. Godlike Smarty-Pants."

"He's got 'im there. The old boy's speechless!"

"If I could work my will, every idiot who goes around with "a Merry Christmas" on his lips would be cooked with his own turkey and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!"

"Well, not quite speechless"

33.

1995, dir. Kevin Smith

That kid is still on the fucking escalator!

For the life of me, I'll never understand why this gets such short thrift while Clerks gets praised to the hilt. Amateurish filmmaking aside, this a comedy that works really f'ing well in spite of itself. The film's a virtual daisy chain of hilarious one-off scenes & Jason Lee's genuinely funny as a grunge "Mahoney". If Clerks is Kevin Smith's Young Frankenstein, then Mallrats is his Blazing Saddles. Endlessly rewatchable.

34. Flirting With Disaster (1996) d. David O. Russell

"San Diego has a big carjacking problem. They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you and take your car."
 

In the 90's Ben Stiller was something of an "alternative comedy" hero and this film, coming out two years before his Farrelly brothers superstardom, is him at his funniest. The film, an account of Stiller looking for his real parents, is brilliant, with elements of screwball and slapstick that builds to a madcap, hilarious climax. The whole cast is game, with Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin especially scene-stealing great, as the ex-hippie parents that are a little more than Stiller bargained for.

35. The Cable Guy (1996) d. Ben Stiller

"You can watch the Louvre on one channel or watch female mud-wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home or play Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam."

My favorite Jim Carrey movie.

36. Billy Madison (1995)

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Oh damn, if Billy Madison is on this list...

37. Happy Gilmore (1996) dir. Dennis Dugan

"That's TWO thus far, Shooter."

"Oh, you can count.  Good for you."

"And YOU can count!  On ME waiting for YOU at the parking lot!!"

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Why!?  WHY CAN'T I PLEASE YOU!!?!

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Why!?  WHY CAN'T I PLEASE YOU!!?!

I'll tell you in a 1/2 hour when this page finishes loading.

I kid, I kid...your tribute to Billy Madison cracked me up. In fact, it Kieled me.

I felt so privileged at the age of nine thinking The Cable Guy was something new and fresh. "Down, down, down! The red knight's going down!"

39. Falling Down (Schumacher, 1993)

We're rolling prices back to 1965!

Before there was Grand Theft Auto, there was Bill "D-FENS" Foster and his really bad day, trying to get home to his daughter and standing up against every antagonistic force trying to fuck him over. Dark humor at its finest and funniest. My personal favorite Michael Douglas performance.