Recommend some "clean" comedy movies

[Barendd Nobeard]

Movies rated less than 'R'

Nine to Five (there is a little "pot party" in the film)
Murder by Death (Neil Simon spoof of classic detectives)
Hairspray (a dancing movie about integration)
Back to the Future
Freak Friday
The Goodbye Girl (not for kids--it's a Neil Simon comedy about relationships)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (four fans try to meet the Beatles in 1964)
Adventures in Babysitting (only PG-13, but it does have the "F" word in one scene)

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

A good clean comedy movie I'm fond of.

Rat Race

Made by the same guy, I think, that did Airplane... which is another good clean comedy movie

It may be clean but I found it CHRONICALLY unfunny and not worthy of a recommendation. Far FAR better to get hold of the movie it's supposedly based on - "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World." Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Ethel Merman, Arnold Stang, Sid Ceaser, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Terry Thomas, Jim Backus, Peter Falk, Norman Fell, Don Knotts, Carl Reiner, Jimmy Durante, even Buster Keaton, The Three Stooges, and Jerry Lewis. It's a fair amount of slapstick but it's funny and it's clean. The only downside is it's a bit long at 2hr 41min (has an intermission!).

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Here's some comedies from my own DVD collection that have not yet been mentioned. A lot of them are action-comedy and so contain some violence (albeit little/no real blood), but they're all fairly clean as memory serves and don't outright exceed the limitations in the OP:

PG

1941
Kelly's Heroes
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (actually at least one scene with enough reference to sex to make it questionable as "clean")
Real Genius

PG-13

Big Trouble in Little China
Let it Ride
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
Mystery Men (the character of Spleen would definitely be qualified as "gross-out humor" but it might still be acceptable.)
Sneakers

 

[Rogue765]

"Jaguar: For guys who want handjobs from beautiful women they don't even know."

They could have been talking about waxing his car. If you know what I mean and I think you do.

 

[Rogue765]

Well, except for the random nudity.

And every line of dialog between Peter Graves and that kid.

 

[Thanee]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (actually at least one scene with enough reference to sex to make it questionable as "clean")

There is also quite a bit of pretty visual violence in there, but I guess that doesn't concern the folks who do those ratings much.

Bye
Thanee

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Tremors, Burt Gummer swearing at the worm-corpse: "I guess you picked the WRONG REC ROOM, didn't ya!!"

That's only "swearing" in the backwards ol' United States. In the rest of the Anglosphere we call that "emphasis".

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Since you're worried about kid-friendly stuff, I have to recommend Kids-In-Mind. It's got lists of basically every bit of stuff you might not want your kids looking at for a whole lot of movies.

 

[Desdichado]

Since you're worried about kid-friendly stuff, I have to recommend Kids-In-Mind. It's got lists of basically every bit of stuff you might not want your kids looking at for a whole lot of movies.

I've long used screenit.com for the same purpose. Really thorough breakdown of questionable material, including plenty of stuff that frankly it wouldn't have occured to me to question.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Murder by Death - Seconded. Fantastic cast: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Maggie Smith, etc.

Tampopo (Japanese movie in the style of a Spaghetti Western, but about noodle making). Kids who could get past subtitles might like it, but it's one of my wife's favorites

The Sting - great caper movie it you haven't seen it.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Steve Martin and Michael Caine.

Three Amigos - Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase

Strictly Ballroom - Fun over the top Australian movie about ballroom dancing

Baby Boom - Diane Keaton plays a successful career woman suddenly put in the positino as a caregiver for a baby.