Happy Movies Only...Total Enjoyment and Fun. (as many as you like)

[Stuart G]

I love Happy Movies..

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World.
Some Like it Hot
Rocky..
Singin in the Rain..(Often said to be the finest musical ever made...) If you haven't seen this...total enjoyment!! (1952)

[SpankMe]

1. Good idea

The Princess Bride
A League of Their Own
Mary Poppins (the original)

[2naSalit]

2. Let me see....

A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum

Comes to mind immediately. I recall watching it several times and laughing so hard that it hurt every time. I am not a big fan of musicals but this one is totally worth watching.

And many movies with Jack Lemmon in them, he was a riot.

And the Marx Brothers movies.



I'll think of more later now that I'm thinking about it.

[ms liberty]

3. Sounds fun, here's a few I love

Help
Grosse Pointe Blank
Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Almost Famous
The Philadelphia Story
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Merle Oberon version)
Robin Hood (Errol Flynn version)
Someone upthread mentioned The Princess Bride, another favorite of mine.
I love all the old musicals too, and you're right about Singin in the Rain. Some Like it Hot is a brilliant movie. Genius casting, witty repartee, it is just about perfect.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Say Anything

16 Candles

Wayne's World

Pineapple Express (mostly)

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (new sequel in the works)

[Stuart G]

4. Two Wonderful Animated Films...

Toy Story (first one, 1995)
The Iron Giant....(obscure, but totally wonderful) saw it least 4 times in the theater..then I finally figured out the ending, and its meaning...no I won't tell you

[ms liberty]

6. How could I have forgotten Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Had to post again to add it!

[Stuart G]

7. I forgot a wonderful one...."There's Something About Mary"

There are a number of scenes in this one that are funny beyond description. If you haven't seen it, well you got to see this,. One scene is in the first 15 minutes...had the entire theater..(except for a few inhibited people) laughing outrageously....A couple more.....you will know when you see it. 1998

Strange and wonderful fact about "There's Something About Mary"...It was released on July 15, 1998 , Yes, six weeks later, after word of mouth advertising spread the word...on Labor Day Weekend it was the most popular movie in the U.S.A. for Labor Day Weekend...Yes, six weeks after release, it then worked it's way up to Number 1, and had not been there before..

[volstork]

8. Some of mine:

Crossing Delancey
9 to 5
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Moonstruck
Any of the Christopher Guest mockumentaries (...but "Best in Show" is my favorite)
Tootsie
Sister Act

[Nay]

9. 2 Schwartzenegger movies: Kindergarten Cop and True Lies. Both so funny

they made us shriek with laughter.

[marked50]

10. Enjoyment and fun

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Seabiscuit -2003

[ProudLib72]

11. For animated, I nominate Coco

For regular movie, I nominate History of the World Part 1

[Buzz cook]

12. Peter Sellers, After the Fox

Victor Victoria.

Drop Dead Gorgeous.

The Fearless Vampire Killers.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. Victor, Victoria is our favorite movie

Also: The Great Race

[Buzz cook]

25. I laughed till I choked watching VV

The Great Race is a must watch at our house. "Push the Button Max".

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Joe Versus The Volcano, Support Your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter, Young Frankenstein, Where's Poppa?

[bif]

14. "Our Idiot Brother"

I just happened to review it on my film blog today.

FYI: http://moviejunkiemark.blogspot.com

[smirkymonkey]

15. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

"We're The Millers"
"Amelie"
"Saving Grace"
"Waking Ned Devine"
"Pee Wee's Big Adventure"
"Ferris Buehler's Day Off"
"A Bear Named Winnie"
"A Fish Called Wanda"
"Office Space"
"Life of Brian"
"The Holy Grail"
Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"


I'm sure there are a lot more, but those are some of my favorites.

Oh wait, I forgot "Hot Fuzz" and "Shaun of the Dead" w/ Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

[zanana1]

16. I've watched "A Fish called Wanda" three times.

I'd watch it again. Hilarious, great cast.

[mr_lebowski]

29. Only 3?

Lol ... I think I watched it 3 times the week I bought the VHS, after having seen it in the theater as well. And at least 4 times since then, all those years back, usually watching it again w/friends or family who had "ZOMG YOU'VE NEVER SEEN FISH CALLED WANDA?!?"

It is one of my favorite all-time flicks.

[akraven]

17. Every single one mentioned here!

Plus: Rent
The Devil Wears Prada
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Legally Blond!

Fire up the DVD players!

[gratuitous]

18. Nobody's Fool with Paul Newman

And "Volunteers" with Tom Hanks and John Candy in a reunion of their collaboration on "Splash."

"Tom Tuttle from Tacoma Washington."

[Hotler]

19. A lot of great suggestions already, here's mine

Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Monsters Inc.
The Goonies
Turner & Hooch
Major League

[happybird]

20. So many good ones already mentioned

I love Richard Dreyfuss movies:
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
What About Bob
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Raising Arizona
Old School
PeeWee's Big Adventure
School of Rock (Jack Black usually annoys the crap out of me, but this one cracks me up)
All the Austin Powers movies

More Bill Murray:
Ghostbusters
Caddyshack
Groundhog Day

[Brother Buzz]

22. Get Shorty and Be Cool

And a couple of dated, but still fun films:

The Mouse That Roared
The Russians are coming, The Russians, are coming

[mr_lebowski]

30. Get Shorty is one o' my all-time faves ... (nt)

[Brother Buzz]

35. Stink by John Lurie

I don't know what I just heard, but I think I like it. - Paul Desmond

[a kennedy]

23. We've got these DVR'd for the 100th time......

Up
Despicable Me
Animal House
Blues Brothers
Used Cars
Jaws
Outlaw Josey Wales

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. This Is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman.

[mr_lebowski]

28. Those are all good-to-great flicks ...

I sense a common theme in these particular choices

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. Yes, all from Christopher Guest.

All hilarious.

[wendyb-NC]

26. The History of Lying.

School of Rock.

[Doreen]

27. 1. Creator

2. Better Off Dead
3. Zombie Land
4. The Princess Bride
5. Joe Dirt.

There are times I want fun but do not want to think either.

There are many others to just have fun with. Some soda, a jar of Nutella, and a spoon.

Using your brain is optional.

[mr_lebowski]

31. This may surprise you, but I'm gonna have to go with The Big Lebowski here ;)

Some others I don't see above ...

South Pacific
Breakfast at Tiffany's
What's Up Doc?
The Sting
Harold and Maude
Grease
Kentucky Fried Movie
And Now for Something Completely Different!
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Risky Business
The Breakfast Club
Beverly Hills Cop
Big
Splash
Shakespeare in Love
Midnight Run
Big Daddy
Elf
Ace Ventura - Pet Detective
Liar, Liar
Dumb and Dumber
Swingers
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Napoleon Dynamite
The Vacation
Superbad
Anchorman
Hot Tub Time Machine
The Hangover

Yeah ... I know ... I'm a Dude

[Coventina]

32. An American in Paris

Beauty and the Beast (Disney's animated feature, although the Cocteau version is pretty cool as well).

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. Do they have to be happy movies all the way through, or happy at the very end?

Some movies are tense or depressing for most of the story, but have an ending that makes me very happy.

Two examples for me would be The Shawshank Redemption and Apollo 13.

For more traditional happy movies, I would say silly comedies like Airplane, The Naked Gun, The Jerk. Or some of the lighter Coen fare, such as Raising Arizona and O Brother Where Art Thou.

[peacefreak2.0]

36. So many.

Shirley Valentine
Same Time Next Year
Death at a Funeral(British version)
Pleasantville
Frankie & Johnnie
Mama Mia
Little Hours
Triplets of Belleville

[Archae]

37. Yellow Submarine.

Music, colors, etc...

[Stuart G]

38. Perhaps the funniest movie I have ever seen...The Producers, by Mel Brooks.

There are parts of that, that well, "that are beyond the beyond" .....whatever that means..

1967..Down and out producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel), who was once the toast of Broadway, trades sexual favors with old ladies for cash contributions. Max's new accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), offhandedly muses that if Max found investors for a new production that turned into a flop, he could make a fortune .

The original with Zero and Gene is funny beyond funny. Oh..the guy who plays "Hitler" is great.. If you haven't seen this it is the best...

Another very funny one, "Birdcage" Robin Williams, etc.

[wishstar]

39. Shall We Dance, Top Hat, Swing Time- the Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire movies

The goofy secondary characters played by Eric Blore and Edward Everett Horton in the Rogers/Astaire movies always make me laugh, esp. Eric Blore playing Cecil in Shall We Dance cracks me up everytime.

[MissMillie]

41. Airplane! and

Bull Durham, The Birdcage, Clue, and Victor Victoria

[Laffy Kat]

43. Yes, yes, "The Birdcage"..

I could watch Gene Hackman all day long.

[Laffy Kat]

42. "Something Happened on the Way to the Forum"...

"Little Miss Sunshine", "Bernie"; others already listed.

[Laffy Kat]

44. Thought of another one: "Being There" with Peter Sellers. nt