I concur. One of the things I love about comedies from the 1980's was how edgy the humor was in them. Comedy isn't meant to be bland, safe, and inoffensive. The best humor has some kind of edge to it so it isn't just funny, but provocative as well.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

Sometimes it's just an act for attention.

Agreed. But you have to remember that this is the same generation that needs safe spaces if they hear something that offends them.

Exactly, it would violate their "safe space."
When did people get so soft?

If a joke bit them on the ass, they would press sexual harassment or rape charges against it.

Amen, jgroub! People are WAY too uptight in today's PC Mad society. Most of them wouldn't know a joke if it bit them on the ass.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

This film is totally UN-PC, and I love it!!! A masterpiece like this film would never get made today. Too many people get offended when the wind blows.

girl, bye.
yawn.

you're going for, the last ride ah haaaaaaaa

i agree totally, well said

Haters are on every board. Speaks volumes about the state of world mental health.

Amen, JGroub!!!!

I wasn't surprised one bit with people on here having a problem with this movie.This is my first time watching this and half way through I knew people would have a problem with it.They say fagt,reta and everytime the Asian boy shows up they play that sound
.All of that was funny including the part when they start playing The Godfather theme while the Italian fianc was talking
.
This is a COMEDY in the 1980's.Why would they hold back?
I'm more surprised that you guys are shocked that sensitive people have a problem with this COMEDY.They do that to every COMEDY that isn't afraid to make fun of things that they consider to be off limits.Check some of the other COMEDY boards and you will see it isn't just this movie.It's ridiculous.

Agreed! I'm watching this for the 800th time on the Sundance Channel, so I thought I'd see what the boards had to say, and holy crap, what a bunch of paranoid, uptight whiners. Compared to teen movies past and present this has to be among the least offensive. Just middle class middle America comedy.

I too am surprised by the uptightness. I love the film just as much today as I did when it was first released. It has a good heart.

Agreed. Expecting (intentional) social commentary in B-movies is dumb. It's like asking what's dumber, an Adam Sandler movie or someone who actually spends time trying to analyze it?

This is not a documentary. It's called a comedy.
Agreed. It's a lot funnier than The Breakfast Club thank goodness!

Back then movies were more like stand up comics in that offensive material was allowed in the name of comedy but the whole PC movement has made people lose sight of that.
Agreed. I feel strongly that virtually
anything
can be funny when written and performed correctly.

This movie didn't strike me as a film to motivate all the liberal types but after thinking about it yeah it has many points that could infuriate today's thin-skinned type. Back then movies were more like stand up comics in that offensive material was allowed in the name of comedy but the whole PC movement has made people lose sight of that. A funny thing is this was an earlier film by John Hughes, was a huge hit and actually started a string of successes from him. Had it been released today John Hughes would have been run out of town on a rail and classics like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Uncle Buck would never have been made. Eh whatever

Agreed. I try to stay away from this board because of all the uptight morons who flood the board with comments about how this movie is racist, sexist, depicts and approves of rape, etc, etc. Total b.s.
It wasn't me who was murdered, was it?

Gooooonnnnnggggg!!!!!
"check the imdb cast list before asking who portrayed who in movies please"

Glad to see I'm not the only one who's had it up to his eyeballs with self-righteous douchenozzles who go out of their way to find offense where none was intended.

Lol totally agree

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