Put it next to Casablanca

Rating: 10/10 (29 November 1998)

For years, while my kids were growing up, I thought this was the best movie ever made. Then I saw Casablanca again, and moved it down to number 2. Get this movie, view it umpteen times with your kids, until they are spouting all the great sound bites verbatim. Then put it on your shelves next to Casablanca. No room on your shelves? Take Citizen Kane and all the other movies you'll never view again and put them in a box and put the box in the attic. Now you have lots of room for fun movies like this one. Add Ghostbusters and All in the Family if you haven't already.
Some of those sound bites that you'll remember the movie by:
"I beg your pardon, but this is not as easy as it looks."
"There is something you should know. I am not left handed."
"Inconceivable!" "I do not think this word means what you think it means."
"Get used to disappointment."
"Think it will work?" "It would take a miracle."
"As you wish."
"... some day we'll regret it. Maybe not today ..." (Oh, sorry, wrong movie)