Reply #4: I didn't laugh at it much, either.

[Dukakis88]

It sounds like, even though you didn't laugh, that you liked the movie more than I did.

The funny parts I think are supposed to be:

1) How insanely enraged John Goodman's character gets over nothing, contrasted with the super-mellow Liebowski and meek, quiet, neurotic Buscemi. By putting a rageaholic with these two guys, the contrast is supposed to be funny.

2) The German accented "Nihilists," which seemed like a sub-par sketch from the worst season of Saturday Night Live.

3) The way the Kaluha drips from Jeff Bridges's beard every time he drinks.

4) The retro musical numbers are supposed to be over-the-top and weird and thus funny.

For me, this movie was the beginning of my parting-of-ways with the Coens. I had been solidly a fan from the beginning through Fargo, but this one has marked the beginning of me being unsatisfied with everything they've done since. They just seem to have gone way too ironic and wink-wink for my tastes. I don't care about their characters anymore.