Real Humor

There is a movie out in theaters this week, and it’s called The Wild. This film comes as another attempt by Hollywood in recent years to try to create a funny, family-oriented film. Like usual, they have not succeeded.

Hollywood’s concept of humor is very limited. To them, the only things that are funny are body functions and bathroom humor. Scriptwriters can’t think beyond those things for some reason. Hollywood has lost the sense of humor that makes things truly funny, and creates such comedians as Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, Victor Borge, and to some extent, Dave Barry.

To me, humor basically consists of making people think about something in a way that they have not thought of it before. It takes something ordinary, and makes it different or emphasizes a part of it that thing that you have not thought of before.

A recent, good example of this is the recent movie Hoodwinked. This film, produced by an obscure company, and directed by a stand-up comedian; takes the simple, well-known story of Little Red Riding Hood, and changes it and develops it into a hilarious tale. The director wanted to produce something that went against the trend of bathroom humor, and stood out as truly funny. It doesn’t have all the gaudy effects of overdone animation, but manipulates the scenes to convey the well-designed plot line.

Go see this movie.

Hollywood needs to come out of its bubble and realize what real humor is, what real plots are, and essentially what a real movie is.