A Funny Thing Happened on the Way the the Forum

I think that this film should still be watched nowadays because even though the whole movie is degrading towards women, it is also degrading towards men. Almost all of the characters are portraying stereotypes and that is what type of comedy people were looking for when this movie was made. However, this movie is still funny to this day, because those stereotypes are still relevant. In modern films you always see a shallow, dumb blonde girl and a stupid jock. Also, the characters to which we find most funny are not the dumbed-down prostitutes, or the stickler of a wife, but the klutzy son and the over masculinized warrior. The fact that the women are shallow and sexualized beyond belief is not the main source of entertainment. As the movie progresses, it is the men who cause all the problems that have to be dealt with and it is the men who have to deal with them. The ironic events that send the characters into problem after problem are entirely due to the men's poor judgement.