I watched the movie again last night. Sure, it’s not perfect (Wedding is my favourite, and then 2), and some here may think it’s too Jewish, but I still genuinely like it. Like, it’s no worse than the original Mean Girls or Superbad, and it hasn’t aged that badly. Some of the humour is still reasonably current - it’s literally where we got “MILF” from, after all!
Yet Zoomers won’t watch it (but Rocky Horror is ok, because it’s “queer”?) and the “new media” constantly calls it problematic, to the point of at least one “viral” article a year to that effect, which is just… Pathetic really. Especially since even my extremely normie, straight-laced parents had to admit that they have chuckled at it a few times…
Honestly, I just wish I had first seen the movie when I was a teen, rather than in my twenties. I probably could have done with a dose of that, growing up.
Also, prime Tara Reid, Natasha Lyonne and Shannon Elizabeth (though not Alyson Hannigan or Mena Suvari, IMHO), so there’s that, too…
Some comedies were a little raunchy, but by today's standards, almost everything is. It seems to come in waves. The revenge of the nerds, porky's and other movies of the start to the mid 80s got repeated in the mid 90s as other silly comedies.
If you use today's lens to pass judgement on the past, nothing will pass.
Most of us who grew up and lived through it just saw it for what it was. Dumb humor that was fun for the hour or so the movie lasted, then you moved on.