The Room is the only movie I have to pause every few minutes due to the pain of laughter.
No other movie can do that. Not every single time I watch it. Ergo, this is the funniest movie ever made.
Don't get me wrong, there have been plenty of great comedies: "The Producers", "Withnail and I", "The Big Lebowski" and "This is Spinal Tap" were, before this changed everything, at the top of my list. But even they can not compete with this movie. Watching The Room really is like sitting on an atomic bomb, waiting for it to go off... an atomic bomb of laughter. This movie literally has 8 or 9 of the 10 funniest moments in movie history. That one, short, infamous scene in the florist, by itself, contains more belly laughs than most other comedies can manage in 90 minutes.
Tommy Wiseau has (somehow) created an "accidental masterpiece". A movie so great, so insane, so wonderful - yet all in ways that I suspect Mr. Wiseau has no concept of, and certainly had no intention of creating. He set out to make a sexy thriller, but what came out was utterly unsexy (at moments it's in fact gross), entirely unthrilling - and were you to be stupid enough to watch as a drama, you would find absolutely no drama anywhere in the movie. It has characters who act in ways no human being has ever acted, and saying things that either a) make no sense, b] are completely irrelevant to what is happening, or c) start a subplot that is subsequently never again mentioned.
But all the many, many things that would kill it as a straight drama become pure gold when played for laughs. The execution is beyond inept - in fact the whole debacle seems to have been conceived as a vanity project for Mr. Wiseau. Normally this would be a terminal misstep, but because Mr. Wiseau is one of the greatest men who ever lived, the movie instead becomes endlessly entertaining, and his performance ever more fascinating.
Get this movie.
Grade: A. (Obviously)