I recently re-watched My Dinner With Andre after first seeing it like 20 years ago. I'm not going to get into my initial or current feelings on the movie except that I could in noway see how this was a comedy. And, it is classified as a comedy on the back of the DVD.

Apart from such comments as "if you are watching this movie, then the joke is on you", does anyone see this even remotely as a comedy?

Comedy is in the eye of the beholder. I wouldn't necessarily classify it as a comedy, but I probably would think much of it if I saw it in that section of a video store. A lot of movies get classified in ways with which I wouldn't agree. Is Fargo a comedy? What about The Player? I've seen both classified as such.

What say we agree My Dinner With Andre is a movie about a couple of guys having a conversation, which touches on a number of different subjects, some of which members of the audience might consider humorous, and leave it at that?

On the other hand, My Breakfast with Blassie is definitely a comedy.

Too bad Wallace Shawn has passed on. I'd love to hear his take on this.

AFAIK Wallace Shawn is still alive..

And has a new movie, Love Thy Neighbor. Yup, alive and kicking!

Watching this movie = watching flys screw

I like the movie very much, and I too am befuddled at its classification as "Comedy." There was maybe one time when I cracked a smile, I suppose, but I was really engaged in the conversation, in a serious way. Not sure why it's called a "Comedy" either, I remember thinking the same thing when I finally saw it last summer.

Groucho: See, that's the problem with newbies ( in comparison to those of us who have been here since God knows when ). They have no idea what the hell you're talking about when you tell them that Wallace Shawn died.

I thought that it was unbelievably boring, as I did The Player. At least The Player can pass for satire, but MDWA was only mildly entertaining in some parts...

I really wanted those My Dinner With Andre action figures from the end of Waiting for Guffman. When I saw that in the theater, I literally hurt my sides laughing so hard.

Where would you keep them though? In your Remains of the Day lunchbox?

I had to watch this film in college for a sociology class. one of my roommates was in the class as well, so we watched it together. i thought it was incredibly boring, but maybe that's cause i was watching it for a class.

anyway, the lone highlight of the movie for me was when the guy actually says "inconceivable." we had joked about that before the movie. "hey, that's the guy from the princess bride. the one that says 'inconceivable' all the time." and when he said it in "my dinner with andre" it was just to funny.


... or maybe you just had to be there...

That's the problem with the newbs. They just don't get the bad jokes that never die.

BTW... how's the Otter Farm's kitten population lately? I haven't been visiting much of late.

Alive yes,but kicking

Fargo a comedy? Yes
The Player a comedy? Yes
What's wrong with you of course they are

My Dinner With Andre a comedy? I guess so. While not a comedy precisely, what other category would it fall under?

Action/Adventure?

C'mon it's a thriller. Geez.

No way.Horror.Boogie,Boogie,Boggie.

Action figures = action movie. And let the poor guy rest in peace, already...

Reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Ralph (I think) was in the arcade playing a "My Dinner With Andre" video game.

Greatest. Gag. Ever.

I died laughing when I saw this. 'bout fell out of my chair actually.

My roommates thought I'd lost it... they're not exactly familiar with the Wallace Shawn oevre... but I'm sure they still mourned his passing.

I think that was Martin who played the video game. I love how you have to press up on the joystick for "Tell Me More"