I need suggestions for a cheerful movie

[Aerows]

a cheerful TV show, anything cheerful. Anything but the news.

[blogslut]

1. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is streaming on Netflix

It cheers me up.

[rug]

2. The Iron Giant.

[Stuart G]

7. Yes, I am a fan of animated movies..This one is the best.

Yes, I said the best

It is a wonderful, heart warming film, some 50s kinda news.

.This is wonderful for me...I saw it in the theater 5 times..own it. and love it..
Watch all the way thru, and enjoy...give it my strongest rating...

[rug]

17. I agree. I saw it with my kids but I always sit through it by myself if I catch it on.

[kentauros]

30. I was just thinking of this movie recently.

I have the DVD, so I may get it out this evening.

Some funny scenes in it, too

[Beaverhausen]

3. Too Cute from Animal Planet

not sure if it streams or whatever, but that show will cheer anyone up!

http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/too-cute-kittens

[shenmue]

24. Paw tap!

I second that! Who could not love wiggly piles of puppies and kittehs?

[Arugula Latte]

4. Two of my favorite movies, both *gasp* European AND *gasp* cheerful:

And an American flick:

[hunter]

10. Amelie had a mean streak to her. That was okay by me, but others may not appreciate that.

My own lightweight movie favorites are silly and often somewhat sexual.

Otherwise, most episodes of Star Trek Next Generation, or very quirky international movies will do.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922645

[grasswire]

5. Bingo Long Traveling All Stars & Motor Kings

Richard Pryor, Billie Dee Williams, James Earl Jones

It's a baseball movie, about the Negro leagues of the south.

Funny, sentimental, interesting

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. You cannot go wrong with "Young Frankenstein." !!

It is a side-splitting comedy!

[rurallib]

13. I will second that - and add a couple from way back

"Arsenic and Old Lace" and "His Girl Friday" both with Cary Grant

[WinkyDink]

8. Two words: John. Candy.

[Aerows]

9. I don't care what they say about us

DU kicks ass.

Thank you for the suggestions

[Stuart G]

11. You also got to love, "The Producers" Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder..

I laugh even thinking about it...If you haven't seen it..the story line is absurd..
A looser producer of plays in New York, and his accountant get an idea to produce the world's worse play.
Sell stock in the play, (over sell it a hundred times) ..how Zero sells the stock is exceptionally funny to me...
then put the play together with the worst script, worst actors, worse ...etc..
Opens for one night...fails...then the two who thought up the plan...run away with all the money cause the stockholders know that the play failed and made no money...they get nothing back.....oh wellllllllllllllllllllllllll it doesn't work out exactly as planned...

I guess my favorite funny movie...Zero is incredible as the head crook..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/

[jmowreader]

22. It was oversold by a bit more than 100 times...

(Bloom reads off a very long list of little old ladies who each own fifty percent of Springtime for Hitler...)

"How much can we sell?"
'Max, you can only sell one hundred percent of anything.'
"And how much of Springtime for Hitler have we sold?"
'Twenty-five thousand percent.'

Mel Brooks claims (sorry, no link, I read this many years ago) The Producers is based on a real producer he once worked for who funded his plays the same way Bialystock did...but he didn't oversell a play by 24,900 percent and, so far as we know, he never made a play about Adolf Hitler.

[sarge43]

12. Galaxy Quest

"It's the little things in life you treasure."

[riderinthestorm]

29. I second Galaxy Quest and will add The In Laws with Alan Arkin

"Serpentine Shel!"

"I've got flames on my car!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. This Is Spinal Tap.

I've seen it a zillion times and it still makes me laugh.

[Brigid]

15. "The Blues Brothers."

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"
"Airplane!"
"Blazing Saddles"
Old SNL episodes from the '70's.
"The Way"

[kath]

16. The Princess Bride

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Bringing Up Baby

[handmade34]

18. Mitty

...the secret life of

[orleans]

19. either the big bang theory or a romantic comedy should do it

when harry met sally
miss congeniality
dave
in & out
housesitter
sleepless in seatle
you've got mail
french kiss
10 things i hate about you
the wedding singer
accepted *
camp *
the holiday
love actually

*not romantic comedies but they are good & funny

[Manifestor_of_Light]

51. Accepted has Lewis Black in it.

As Dean Lewis. He lives in a travel trailer he pulls up next to the administration building with his junker car, and sits in a lawn chair and drinks beer next to it. I found it mildly amusing and the best jokes were when Lewis Black was onscreen. Or he was doing his trademark rants. Yeah, I'm prejudiced because I really dig Lewis Black.

[fizzgig]

20. anchorman makes me laugh my ass off

i don't normally care for movies like that, but the fight scene alone is worth it.

[GCP]

25. Perfection

[irisblue]

28. I would never have guessed that I laughed so hard, I woke the animals up

I gotta get this movie

[Lars39]

21. Kinda old and a bit hokey sometimes, but Rocket Man gets me giggling.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rocket+man+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

[jmowreader]

23. Duck Soup by the Five Marx Brothers

I love Groucho's inaugural address.

[cbayer]

26. Sharknado!!! Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Brigid]

35. No, Sharknado II.

Much funnier.

[cbayer]

43. Haven't see it yet, but it's hard to imagine it beating Sharknado!

[Brigid]

47. Trust me, the second one is much funnier.

They wisely decided to play it for laughs, and succeeded.

[cbayer]

48. Are you saying that the first one wasn't played for laughs?

[Brigid]

49. All I know is . . .

When they showed the first one, which I hadn't seen before, just before the debut of the second one, I was sort of "Meh. Lame." I was going to change the channel, but didn't -- and was soon

[cbayer]

50. For whatever reason, I started watching the first one thinking it was a serious movie.

My reaction at first was also a "Meh. Lame.".

Then I began to recognize that it was so ridiculously "lame" that it was hilarious.

I love that kind of thing and hope i am not disappointed with #2.

[Coventina]

27. After watching "The Shining" I recovered by watching "An American in Paris".

Any Gene Kelly movie will do, really.

You can't watch him and not smile.

[Aerows]

37. I don't think I have ever recovered

from watching "The Shining", but I'll take your antidote film under advisement.

[Coventina]

41. Well, that was sort of an over-simplification.

What I SHOULD have said was, "What got me through the first night after watching the Shining was An American in Paris."

Because, I actually didn't sleep for three nights after watching "The Shining."
I checked out every innocuous movie I could think of from the library to comfort me during the hours of darkness.
The two stand-outs I remember particularly are "An American in Paris" and Disney's "Beauty and the Beast."

I was house-sitting (alone) at my great-aunt's house while in college.

I finally had to have my boyfriend at the time come over during the day just so I could sleep.

It is truly a masterpiece of terror.

[kentauros]

31. My Favorite Year

"I'm not an actor! I'm a movie star!"

[sarge43]

32. Second that

For ladies only

[kentauros]

33. Selma Diamond was great!

And then that brilliant segue between scenes


What Robert Osborn and Ben Mankewitz on TCM have said is that "My Favorite Year" is loosely based on Mel Brooks' beginnings in writing for "Your Show of Shows" during that same time-period. So, the Alan Swan character was Errol Flynn, though Benjy was based on both Brooks and Woody Allen, another writer on the show

[Aerows]

34. Clearly we have diverse and bountiful

cinematic tastes on DU.

I love you all for suggesting them .

[Jamaal510]

36. "Not Another Teen Movie" or "21 and Over". nt

[SiobhanClancy]

38. Moonstruck

It always cheers me up) I also enjoy programs like Fawlty Towers,Keeping Up Appearances,and AbFab.

[Sancho]

39. Have you seen Frozen?

Great music too.

[Aerows]

40. I have not. Sounds like a good suggestion, thank you.

Disney movies are always a good place to start!

[sarge43]

44. Dreamworks seldom disappoints either

Try Flushed Away. Ian McKellen's voice work is a hoot.

[Stuart G]

54. Beware...this one is about "talking human bowels...floating thru the underground sewers..

Yes it is...oh my...

[sarge43]

56. ???

There's rats, a toad, frogs and a lot of slugs. Sorry if I miss your point.

[kentauros]

42. Chocolat

Most "food movies" are usually well-made and fun

Big Night
Babette's Feast
Tompopo
Like Water for Chocolate
My Dinner with Andre
Delicatessen (rather "dark" but funny)
Eating Raoul (also dark yet funny)

Also, the British TV show "Chef!" with Lenny Henry:

Those are my favorites. There's far more than I've ever seen on this imdb list, though not all are light fare. So, take a look at the synopsis if you aren't sure. Should keep you satisfied for a while

[kairos12]

45. Babe--talking animals are always great.

[nirvana555]

46. The Big Lebowski. A lot of the others are great it's just no one had mentioned this one....

The thing about so-called "cult" movies is that they get better and better after each viewing so you might want to watch it several times....

[Stuart G]

52. Idiocracy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=nv_sr_1
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes five centuries in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

this one makes fun of the dumbed down society 500 years in the future, and our hero is really a nice fellow...and it ends happily..Lots of sarcasm and all kinds of hidden humor..but lots of fun...

[nirvana555]

58. I loved Idocracy! It's just too bad that it really is the

direction we're heading...

[Art_from_Ark]

53. Here you go

[Stuart G]

55. Two More:

"Birdcage" and "The New Leaf"

[Jenoch]

57. I suppose Sophie's Choice is out of the question.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

59. Cool Runnings

Funny with a feel-good, overcoming adversity vibe