not funny


at all

3/10




When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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You're being kind.

1/10

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You, sir or it, are a normalist and pee on YE!

Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.

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I agree with Xcalate that this was one unfunny film.
I also see this film through Satiric and Absurdist eyes.
I need some eye bleach and a good dose of "Old School" and "Waiting for Godot".
To me, this was not in any sense funny. Yes, Secombe had a couple of funny lines. No, it wasn't funny and this from an American who can recite "Napoleon's Piano" line for line from the Goons.
When I watched this film for the first time I was inspired by an American critic about "Easy Rider": What were they smoking and why did they think it was funny when they smoked it?
I really did want to smoke dope for the first time in 25 years just to get the joke. Yeah, Marty Feldman as a nurse was weird. Yes, Sir Ralph Richardson as a dotard old weird thing was....weird.
But not funny.
I wish I could encapsulate my utter disgust at this film with a couple of lines like Ebert, but I am not in that business.
But I found this film to be wanting in its wantoness, vague in its vaguery and compelety adept in its addition to be being a total piece of crap. Thank you, Mr. Lester, for your timely exit, stage left.

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Another denier of holiness. I am glad I have sat thru this 3 times over 40 years. But I must be troothful and claim I thought the Passion of the Xhrist was funnier.

Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.

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Marty Feldman as the nurse was the best thing in the whole film!

It wasn't funny. Which, for a comedy, is always a bummer. But as a weirdo-product of its time, it's interessting. But that does not make it a good film either.

#15
Martin Scorsese IS the best

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I agree with you.....I didn't laugh but I was impressed with the set designs. The nightmarish ideas of what things could look like after "the bomb" yet add visually interesting gives it the sense of surreal.

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This is bad news. I discounted the previous posters (no detail, I guessed maybe they weren't attuned to Milligan's humour, etc etc) - however, since it is FACT that Napoleon's Piano is possibly the GREATEST episode of the Goons ever, the fact you didn't like this makes me worried.

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It almost doesn't need to be funny, not 40 years on at least. I personally think it's funny. Not hilarious, but funny. This film has matured into the British El Topo, as one of the user reviews here states, so let's just put it that way. Watching the film in 2009, the rampant absurdism completely trumps the humor - but there is much Milliganesque madness. The surrealism and Lester's assembly of the project are the real attractions here - it's a beautifull designed film with great ideas. Laugh for laugh it's not much, but it's still incredibly enjoyable. I'm surprised it doesn't have a bigger following, simply given how bizarre it is.

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I agree with you, and not at all with the op. The humour in this film, despite its absurdist appearance, is not especially Goon like. It is wry, as befits the subject matter. Because the film doesn't not match a preconception is not itself a failing; at least not on the part of the creators.

I especially liked the faux happy ending. Contemporary hipsters who think they have a bead on irony could learn from it.

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Impossible to please all and sundry all of the time!
Apart from that, your opine, not funny, sounds nearly as odd as the film.
There is sadness in humor as there can be humor in war! It is all in the mind and your,or my individual perspective. The 'Not Funny' opinion is valid for some. No problem there.
I may not find humor where you do find it? Horses for courses, if that British statement makes sense for any non-Britishers?

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Impossible to please all and sundry all of the time!
Apart from that, your opine, not funny, sounds nearly as odd as the film.
There is sadness in humor as there can be humor in war! It is all in the mind and your,or my individual perspective. The 'Not Funny' opinion is valid for some. No problem there.
I may not find humor where you do find it? Horses for courses, if that British statement makes sense for any non-Britishers?

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It had a moment or two. The only one I can think of is when receiving the Van Gogh painting.

"Hang it up there" and then Mate hangs it on his finger. Not very funny. But then when he says "I think it MIGHT go better on the wall" indicating that he did indeed ask for Mate to hang it on his finger and is changing his mind made it amusing.

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It is more absurd and zany than funny. I appreciated the creativity and there were some amusing moments. I would give it a 6/10.

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