I'm a girl and I love the stooges...I used to watch them every sunday with my dad.
The Stooges are mostly all about the clever sight-gags:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X_x9m8Aq1Uo
I'm a guy and I really don't get the appeal of the Three Stooges. Maybe I just haven't seen the funny ones, but the ones I've seen have barely brought forth a chuckle in me. Now to me, if you wanna talk about funny, then I need only say two words. "Abbot" and "Costello". To this day, even the worst performance of "Who's On First" brings me endless joy.
Well, Dalty, I do love Abbott & Costello's work (even their lesser films, such as the two flicks they did in color, one of which is planned for release by Legend Films), but the Stooges are my absolute favorite. Watch the YouTube clip. "Disorder in the Court" is pure comic brilliance. If you aren't rolling on the floor laughing when Curly is asked to take the stand, you're nuts!
Also overrated? The Godfather.
I hate the Godfather trilogy. Why? It's not really THAT good people!
Oh, come on, you have GOT to be kidding me...you're bagging on
The Godfather? The greatest film trilogy ever? (And the person who mentions "Star Wars" or "Lord of the Rings" will get punched in the face.)
I love the
Godfather movies because they're so perfect, and there are very few perfect films in existence, let alone a whole trilogy (again, you Hobbit-wannabes and Lightsaber-swinging geeks will get socked if you say that George Lucas or Peter Jackson made anything better than Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilogy).
I can't say for sure whether or not the first film is the greatest movie of all time, as IMDb's Top 250 has voted, but it's a great film, and a million times better than a lot of things, that's for damn sure.