As a Dutch guy brought up with BBC and other British humor (and dystopia but that is another story) I saw the movie when I was 10 or around that and found it very not funny. Humor has a lot to do with taste and I guess I am not a big fan of US humor (exceptions aside) and I think it is because of my British humor upbringing: I wonder if that is the other way around? For instance my Dutch friends who grew up like me with Fawlty towers, Monty
Python and Blakes' 7 (not a comedy but brilliant) hate Friends but love Seinfeld and the ones who only got Dutch and German and after that American humor love Friends and hate Seinfeld. No idea if this is just my sample group or if it is far more random than this.
Edit: remembered a few popular ones from my childhood: space balls and porky (forgot the complete name) which my friends in the above 2nd category liked and which made me scratch my brain out of boredom.