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It has a huge cult following and although I like it okay, I don't understand the cult.
Comedy is always hit and miss. If you didn't find it funny or didn't associate the story with childhood nostalgia then it won't work.
Like rodents of unusual size are funny or they aren't. If they aren't, then you probably won't like the movie. If you can't identify with a family member trying to to help a child and the child resisting, but only because they are being childish, then you probably won't like the movie.
And that's fine. Not everyone has the same experiences.
I wonder if you're right and that's it, I don't have the nostalgia for it. I don't think it has anything to do with generations, because the people who made me watch came from all generations. Also, I had been hearing about how amazing it was for years, so it had a pretty high bar to jump over.
I enjoyed it without any element of nostalgia to it. The first time I saw it I was in my twenties.
I wouldn't say it's amazing but it has a sort of goofy charm and deliberate silliness that I found very endearing.