What movie did you love that had a stupid plot but the execution was excellent?

Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Highly overrated

Bubba Ho-Tep. Nursing home Elvis fights the Mummy? Silly as hell. But they nailed it.

Saw this at a screening in DC. Bruce Campbell was there for a post movie Q&A.
That's been on my list for ages. I really need to watch it
- You absolutely need to!

Pacific Rim. Building giant robots to fight large creatures.... Ridiculous, but fantastic film!

Pacific rim was one of those movies that cemented that you can't just say a movie is bad or good. The tomato-meter doesn't have nuance.
There are days I want to come home and experience the perfect sci fi movie with amazing effects, and there are days I want a drama that brings me to tears. Then some days I just want to see giant robots punching the shit out of aliens. All three are good movies for their own merits.

Kung Fury

Don't know what you mean, plot makes perfect sense. Hard boiled Kung Fu detective fights nazi robots with dinosaurs

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007). Basically Bugs Bunny in action movie form.

Fucking love this movie!
Kills a dude in the opening coupla minutes with a carrot, Peak.

Hudson Hawk
Kentucky Fried Movie (multiple stupid plots)
Airplane 2 (1 actually had pretty common “disaster movie” plot for the time)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Seconding Hudson Hawk!

Space Balls

The new Naked Gun, actually. The idea falls in to the same FUCK NO camp as every other god damn nostalgia grab from Hollywood in recent years. The plot is stupid, even compared to some of the old Leslie Nielsen movies that worked the plot developments in to jokes a bit better and naturally had more of their own humor than references .... buuuuut, the execution still had me straight up laughing out loud at quite a lot of it.

I put this on expecting a trainwreck and a cash grab too, but it still had me laughing my ass off. It really felt like they understood why the originals were so funny.
- I feel like they could have gone much crazier with the premise, but it had some great jokes.
I love that one of the first items stolen is literally labeled PLOT Device

At the risk of being topical, K-Pop Demon Hunters comes to mind. Like, not really a stupid PLOT but a pretty stupid/ridiculous premise. They make it WORK, though. That movie is SO much better than the title gives it any right to be.

My seven-year-old niece showed me that movie.
I didn't have high expectations going in but it's an absolute banger, largely because of the excellent songs. It is, fundamentally, a musical.
And yes it's silly, but not in the ways that matter.
I remember watching an anime years back which has an anthropomorhpic bread bun who is depressed because he came out the oven burnt. He spends his days working a miserable office job and his evenings getting 'drunk' on 'milk', wishing he wasn't burnt so he could dare ask out the girl of his dreams, the beautiful and perfect strawberry bread.
The guy is literally bread. The premise is as silly as they come, but the characters are real and their feelings are intensely relatable, so it works.
Demon Hunters is the same show. Main girl is trying to make it with her band, but is secretly worried and self-conscious because she's hiding a terrible secret that she knows would tear her friendships and her life apart. And the movie is about how she comes to terms with herself.
So yes it's got unbelievable fights, and earth-protecting barriers that are somehow powered by music, and a group of demons that for some reason decide to form a shit-hot boy band (they're very good). But that's not the movie, that's just the vehicle.
- FWIW, the honmoon isn't powered by music. It's powered by the consciousness/mood of the populace, which is influenced with music. The demons are trying to steal souls so they can attack it directly. Ostensibly, what they've been trying before — such as terrorist attacks on planes as shown in the beginning — hasn't been as effective. So they're trying something else.
  It's supposed to be about how music brings people together.
  Now, how the demons take souls by getting people to listen to this other band... that's not as clear. I'd think Soda Pop bringing people together would have the exact same effect on the honmoon as Golden bringing people together, but what do I know?
- I remember watching an anime years back which has an anthropomorhpic bread bun
  Wait until you hear about 'Bernd das Brot'.
  A animated handpuppet that runs the evening program on a children tv channel.
  Thing is: The bread is depressed, is a connoisseur (translated term) for woodchip wallpaper and always tries to get away from the show.
I think whether KPDH has a stupid/ridiculous premise depends on how well it fits with the Korean stuff it's based on. I'm not Korean, I don't know anything about that stuff, so I just accept it at face value and it's fine.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I’m a sucker for films that go balls to the wall on a style.

Tropic Thunder! My favorite comedy. It’s so stupid but so funny.

Hear me out but Iron sky. A group of Nazis have been hiding on the moon. They're back now. I thought it was a great romp and you could tell the creators cared.

Kung Fury was also 10/10. Time travel Nazi fighting.

I see a theme lol

Big Lebowski.

Alcoholic stoner on the search for a new rug and gets caught up in a fake kidnapping.

Forrest Gump.

So there's this middle aged man waiting on a bus and telling his life story to whichever strangers happens to walk by, and he like fought in Vietnam and got a medal from nixon and showed his ass on national television and became a pingis champion and started a successful fishing company and became a millionaire and gave Nike their slogan and ran across the continent and... Oh, and he's mentally disabled and about to meet his son for the first time because the sons mom is dying of aids.

Absolutely bonkers premise, and such a fantastic movie still today.

Its even more mind blowing if you read the book. There are a lot more stupid things he does like becoming a wrestler, and an astronaut who goes on a mission in space with a baboon that he can speak with telepathically. They crash land on an uncharted island full of cannibals and they will only let him escape with their lives he he beats them at a game of chess. For whatever reason he has unlimited tries and after several years finally wins a game of chess, so they send him and his baboon on a raft and they eventually get found.
Obviously these things very fortunately didn't make it into the movie, but it's super weird to me that someone read all of that and was inspired to make it into a movie anyway. Somehow it was actually a very good movie too.
- I've heard of the insanity that is the book, but somehow missed the years-long chess games. I'm even more afraid to read it now haha.
  I believe this is one clear case where visual media has the upper hand over the story, as when we can see it happen it becomes somehow less unlikely than merely reading about it, because the "proof" is visible right there (though this might be because I don't have a mind visual when reading, it's fully an emotional and mental experience).
  Also the lack of communicating with space apes...
- He also has a savant's knack for higher mathematics!

Dude, where's my car

Dude, where’s your car?

Cocaine Bear

Snakes on a Plane

So over the top that it's fun again. Throughout the movie, the snakes get progressively bigger until these MASSIVE snake-like schlongs get sucked out of the plane at the end. :D So unrealistic and ridiculous!
And of course, a snake had to bite into a nipple.
They wanted to make really funny and entertaining trash and they did.
- You can tell everybody involved knew they were making a movie called Snakes on a Plane and just embraced it.
  Also, the blonde flight attendant who is long of leg and short of skirt? Pretty cool she spends the entire movie being effective and competent, and is never a panicky damsel.

Saving Private Ryan. World War II was a terrible idea.

The Transporter. Dude is a professional delivery driver for bad guys. But the music is perfect, the driving is fun, the fight scenes are creative and exciting. The love scenes suck… but all in all it was way better than I expected and is still my favorite JS movie.

There was some Jason Statham flick, Crank, where he has to keep his heart rate up after being poisoned, so he goes on one hell of a adrenaline-junkie-spree, from picking fights over reckless driving and illegal drugs to public sex. Also, there's some generic mafia gang triad war stuff going on, with kidnappings and all, but really, "you're gonna die if you stop doing stupid shit" is about as dumb a premise as it gets.

But damn if it didn't entertain me to watch.

This movie was an instant classic! I enjoyed the second one too, Crank 2 High Voltage

The Fall.

Not sure if the plot was stupid but I don't remember anything about it. The cinematography however? Absolutely outstanding.

The one with the stuntman telling stories? It was incredible

Kung Pow Enter the Fist

Cocain Bear = Give cocain to a bear

City of Lost Children (1995)
A carnival strongman teams up with a young orphan girl to rescue his little brother from a mad scientist who kidnaps children to steal their dreams in the hope that it will stop him aging.

It's completely nuts but the surreal visual style and editing makes it pretty fun to watch.

Work of art.

Row (2016)

French horror movie about teenage period of live and about problems and temptations young people meet when they become adult

This is so unintersting for me but im rewatching this movie cous of its vibe

Titanic

Jupiter Ascending

Smiley Face, truly a stoner classic, basically no plot at all but also excellent.

Smiley Face was made by Greg Araki, who has made some really dark, depressing, and generally fucked-up shit. I mean, he has a movie called "Totally Fucked Up." If not Smiley Face, he may be best known for The Doom Generation. He also made a few movies with James Duval, who was the crop duster's son in Independence Day (his first big film IIRC) and Frank the Bunny in Donnie Darko.
Araki made Smiley Face because his last few movies were so depressing, so he wanted to do something a little brighter. That's why it has "basically no plot," it's a feel-good (ish?) movie.

Sahara.

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

That plot is batshit wild, and I think it hinges on a bootstrap paradox. But that's the point. It's Bill and Ted, they just deal with it as Bill and Ted do. From robot clones, to Death, to death, to Hell, to Heaven, to Smokey and the Bandit III, it's a perfect film.

"Wristcutters" is such a dumb premise, but the movie is so well made that it just drips thick vibes. Love that movie.

Casablanca

Stupid plot?
- While I love the movie dearly, you might summarize the plot as some guy he didn't really know happening to leave Rick some valuable documents before getting murdered and Rick then agonizing for a while before deciding to give these documents to the husband of this old girlfriend for sentimental reasons, the end.
- A man being in love with a woman? Ridiculous!

Spontaneous

For some unknown reason, teenagers in a small town keep randomly exploding in a mess of blood and guts. The rest of the plot is a coming of age black comedy around that premise. I thought it was quite good.