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Quite right. Also, the production values of Airplane! tend to match the down and dirty cheap laughs brilliance of it, while the sheer size and grandiosity of IAMMMMW invites expectations of some penultimate slapstick comedy masterpiece, the likes of which only money can buy, which feeds into the...

One thing that I don't recall ever seeing mentioned about IAMMMMW is that, after a 22 year gap, I believe this was the 5th and final movie in which both Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy appear. Strange that it isn't mentioned in the blu-ray/DVD bonus material as far as I know nor do I recall it...

I wonder if there would have been fewer naysayers for this movie over the years if it had, indeed, been merely a rapid fire barrage of physical comedy bits and wild stunts. I've never heard as many naysayers over the years about, say, Airplane!, which is a rapid fire barrage of gags of a certain...

You are welcome and thanks for the comment. I will never forget what seeing that movie did for my uncle. I honestly feel that was an element of his movie that Stanley Kramer fully intended. He was, after all, perhaps the most successful "message" filmmaker of his generation. And there is a...

This and the comments from others about having a good time watching this movie are exactly right, IMO. And I think the pleasure in watching it goes beyond the "spot the comedy star!" element of it that inevitably would produce diminished returns over time. I think It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World...