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Is making a great comedy film by design, alchemy or accident?
«Vacation,» a sequel, if you will, to a series that includes «National Lampoon's Vacation» (voted the 46th greatest comedy film of all time by Total Film magazine in 2000), features Ed Helms in the leading role of a pilot on a low - rent airline shuttling people from South Bend, Indiana to Chicago in eighteen minutes.
We here at ComedyGuys.com hope that Jim comes back to great comedy films.
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Watching a comedy film or simply having funny friends is thus a great idea.
She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on This article gives you a huge catalog of great dating ideas.
I went in this movie expecting a cheap slasher horror film, but I was having high expectations, because it has been announced in development since 2009, what I got was way too more in depth than I was barging for, this movie can't be reviewed without spoiling it, what I have to say is... SEE THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is different dark comedy with mystery and great visuals (hint) SEE THIS MOVIE.
Great plan, except that Deanna insists on going to the same college where Maddie is enrolled, setting up an intergenerational, interfamilial odd - couple buddy - comedy scenario that the film never makes the most of.
The film is worth seeing, but don't expect something great with the comedy and like I said actor Troy Gentile ruined the film as his character was dreadfully annoying.
The slapstick and smart comedy in this film is hilarious and makes this film a great memorable example of a classic disney production made after Walt's death.
But while that film hit every clichéd note you'd expect, despite its good intentions and great ensemble cast, «Other People» breathes new life into the formulaic, dark comedy about death.
This could have been a great comedy, but it fails, and as far as family films are concerned, there are much better films out there to enjoy than this.
If you're looking for a great family comedy watch Toy Story or The Sandlot instead, Mouse Hunt simply is an empty shell of a film, a film that leaves a lot to be desired.
A brilliant film that is aided by a great cast, this is one of the finest French comedies ever made.
Expect to see some great documentaries, performances, music, films and topical features as well as some cracking drama and comedy.
Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.
We expect a superhero film to be an action packed adventure but Thor: Ragnarok is primarily a comedy with some great action sequences sprinkled in at just the right moments.
A cute and funny family film with two great comedy actors: Keaton and Garr.
Even though the 2003 comedy scored a 14 % on Rotten Tomatoes, I thought that this was an excellent film and a great attestment to the message, «Don't let anything stand in the way of your dreams.»
A Girl, a Guy and a Gob was one of two RKO Radio films produced by silent - screen great Harold Lloyd, who reportedly dropped in on the set from time to time to offer a bit of sage comedy advice (note the «handkerchief» bit utlized by Edmond O'Brien; it had previously done service in Lloyd's own Welcome Danger).
This movie is a good but not great family comedy film with cool NBA tricks.
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Maybe only just the 24 & up demographic know of Jim Carrey's great comedic skills, but it seems no one thinks he is funny since hasn't done a lol - comedy film in the last 8 years.
The Opening Ceremony, wanting to celebrate the festival's 50th anniversary in style, had some great lighting effects, a wonderful MC, a haunting projection on the façade of the theatre (which was transmitted via video into the auditorium), but also a cheesy 3D presentation, and a film — Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin — that is simply a feel - good comedy with little going for it artistically.
However, that film was a great deal like the other wise - cracking crime comedies that have come out since Tarantino's debut, often encroaching into Guy Ritchie territory, except without the skillful writing or wit required to make these eccentric oddball characters remotely appealing.
Joe Dante's a great filmmaker, but I wish he had made his return to features with a movie better than Burying The Ex, a glib, EC Comics - influenced horror comedy that would probably work better as a short chapter in an anthology film.
What made these films stand out was that the humor was more important than the sport, the sport itself merely used as a springboard for great comedy.
Had a great time at the TimeOut screening to see this film, a must watch action comedy!
Roman Holiday is a cinematic treasure, and essential viewing by anyone who loves great romantic comedies, classic films, William Wyler, Gregory Peck, and especially, anyone who loves Audrey Hepburn.
Book Club isn't just a romantic comedy but a film that manages to team up four of the greatest female actors of their time in the same movie.
As far as this film being the greatest British comedy, it's far from it.
Considering how that film was not exactly a commercial success, this may not sound like a big deal to many of you but as someone who believes that bleak and bruising comedy - drama to be one of the great unsung movies of the decade — the kind of film that the great Billy Wilder might have made once upon a time — I went into the screening with the kind of over-the-top sense of anticipation that many felt as they walked into «Avengers: Infinity War.»
«Keanu» is great fun that I can surely recommend to both comedy fans and to fans of the film «John Wick.»
It may be a dumb concept, but as it pokes fu at itself, making reference to comedy cliches, «George of the Jungle» ends up a great film to watch.
If the script would have been reworked slightly, this would certainly have been a great comedy, as it is, it's a decent film with good on - screen gags.
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Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave&Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave&comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave&comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»
This absurdist horror - comedy gleefully plays with how «all great films» contain an element that has no reason («Why was E.T. brown?»).
Ping Pong Summer is a great 80s comedy throwback and was one of my favorite films from SXSW.
If ever there were a test case to suggest that Spielberg would've made a great Bond film, this is it, a breezy existential chase comedy which slices right through the macho posturing, cosmetic jingoism and oleaginous smugness of classic 007.
An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim («Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job»)!
Much more of a paranoid thriller than a black comedy, The Manchurian Candidate will probably never be heralded as a great film, even if it were a wholly original work.
The small, green, one - eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and the large, blue and pink - dotted James P. «Sulley» Sullivan (John Goodman) are a great comedy team, and the film's emotional core, revolving around little Boo, works quite well.
Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud excel in pleasing the fans of Despicable Me with much of the same spy action and slapstick minion comedy seen in the first film, only amped up to greater heights for this highly anticipated sequel.
Mel Brooks, who made jaws drop with the audaciously tasteless «Springtime for Hitler» musical number at the climax of his 1968 slapstick comedy The Producers, will be on hand at Los Angeles's Aero Theatre this Saturday, May 5, to discuss both that film and Charlie Chaplin's wartime burlesque The Great Dictator, which are showing as a double feature.
First, it means some great films that are also comedies may appear lower on the list than they would if we were weighing technical execution of those non-comic elements equally with humor present.
Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events combine to show the film that topped the American Film Institute's list of 100 all - time greatest comedies in 24 Bay Area theaters on Sunday, June 11, and Wednesday, June 14.
A lot of «greats» can be associated with this movie - one of the great comedies, one of Dustin Hoffman's great roles, and one of the great culturally significant films of its time.
A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis» country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
His debut turn behind the camera, however, came a lot later than the scripts that made his name (you can read our rundown of those right here), and while it was hardly the box office blockbuster it may have been hoped the «Lethal Weapon» writer would turn out, it's in fact a great, great film; a hugely enjoyable comedy / murder msytery / noir hybrid romp with plenty of meta flourishes and sideways - winking humour.