Empty comment. | Gross: Screenwriter and comedian Mike Myers brings a full arsenal of catch phrases, dance moves and visual gags to the role of Austin Powers, the swinging sixties spy who is cryogenically unfrozen in the 1990s for this uproarious James Bond satire. | $1.24M, R Carole Bouquet, $0.81M, Approved | 75,718 You are posting comments too quickly. Catherine O’Hara and Fred Willard steal the movie as Ron and Sheila, married travel agents who take their acting hobby very seriously. 9,968 | Gross: The political-satire plot is mainly a clothesline on which to hang some of the most hilarious sketches and gags ever captured on film, including the iconic “mirror scene” (where the brothers pretend to be reflections of one another) and a slapstick street-vendor battle that will have anyone between the ages of two and 92 rolling in the aisles. It looks as though you’ve already said that. Gerry Bednob, Votes: Funny as it is to watch a group of housewives, taxi dancers (hi, Madonna) and farm girls learn to play ball, Marshall makes sure the joke is never on them (though it’s often on Tom Hanks as their flustered manager). Steve Carell, Mike Nichols $74.87M, R In addition to bringing up the vital issue of independent contractors on the Death Star, Smith’s no-budget, nothing-really-happens indie introduced the world to the loitering antics of Jay and Silent Bob. And the go-for-broke premise—Bialystock ropes Bloom into a financial scam, which will only work if they produce a Broadway show that’s so bad it closes after one performance—may be the masterstroke of Brooks’ incredible comedy career. | Robin Williams and Nathan Lane somehow amplify one another’s comic genius in Mike Nichols’ tune-filled, socially conscious farce, about a drag queen (Lane) and his choreographer husband (Williams) who pretend to be a straight couple so their son’s fiancée’s parents will approve of them. Do not sell my personal information. | | Monty Python’s ruthless Biblical satire tells the story of Brian, an ancient Judean who grows up in the same neighborhood as Jesus Christ and is mistaken for the Messiah. Movies. A compilation of the Audio Description Project. There was an error in your submission. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cameron Dye, Elizabeth Banks, “Anybody want a peanut?” Not a scene in William Goldman’s hybrid-genre fairytale (a fantasy-action-family-comedy-romance) goes by without a quotable joke, from “As you wish” to “Inconceivable!” to “Have fun storming the castle!” The whole ensemble is perfection, and the late Andre the Giant’s winning performance as Fezzik is a small cinematic miracle. Everything you need to know before you rent a movie theater. | Gross: Refresh your page, login and try again. | 119 min Writer-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller turn a feature-length toy ad into a hilarious fantasy-comedy that’s at once a takedown and celebration of our brand-obsessed culture, with a surprisingly emotional third act twist. gangbusters. That triple-ending is the cherry on top of a film that’s full of great moments, including the very gif-able “flames” monologue improvised by Madeline Kahn. Jenna Elfman, Votes: Drama. Nick and Nora’s witty, flirty conversations, in both The Thin Man and its five sequels, are an experience to be treasured. Russell lands each deadpan punchline and wears every outlandish costume like she was born in it, while the antics of Mame’s eccentric family (both biological and chosen) stay hilarious through every decade. Eddie Murphy swiped Jerry Lewis’s most celebrated role, and one-upped him by playing an additional five characters, in Tom Shadyac’s remake of the 1963 comedy. Comedy, Drama, Romance. From the Rube Goldberg device that makes his breakfast to his “Tequila” dance at a biker bar, this is Pee-Wee at his campy, zany best. Writer-director Nora Ephron took an old story (the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie, which previously inspired the film The Shop Around the Corner and the Broadway musical She Loves Me) and gave it an inspired ‘90s twist with this funny, melancholy story of two rival bookstore owners (Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks) who fall in love over email without realizing that they know each other in real life. Norman Jewison’s unabashedly romantic film about couples in an Italian Brooklyn neighborhood is warm, funny and peak Cher. Leslye Headland Amy Yip, Murphy also plays the entire Klump family, whose dinner scene is a classic moment of ‘90s comedy. $209.22M, R Rachel McAdams, Kent Cheng, “When I was a boy, just about every summer we’d take a vacation,” says weary dad Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase), “and you know, in 18 years, we never had fun.” The first and best Vacation film celebrates the time-honored tradition of taking miserable family road trips that everyone will one day look back on with nostalgia. When British satirist Sacha Baron Cohen unleashed his anti-Semitic, misogynistic character Borat on an unsuspecting U.S.A., he wanted to expose Americans’ own blind spots. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Charlie Chaplin’s greatest film shows the jaw-dropping range that made him a cinematic legend: he could turn a plate of spaghetti into an uproarious gag, then break your heart with a love story. Watching Terry Zwigoff’s filthy holiday comedy, about a booze-addled con man (Billy Bob Thornton) who poses as a department store Santa, you keep expecting it to go all mushy and true-meaning-of-Christmas-y. For all of its harrowing themes, In Bruges has moments that are transcendently hilarious, including one of the funniest shoot-outs (between Farrell and Ralph Fiennes, as a London mob boss) ever filmed. Zinedine Soualem, A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love. | | 100 min A touchstone for every American who has ever inhabited a cubicle or waited tables at a chain restaurant, Mike Judge’s cult-classic comedy about TPS reports, “flair,” a very bad printer and a very good stapler will make even a case of the Mondays feel better. | It doesn’t matter because Mostel and Gene Wilder, who plays socially anxious accountant Leo Bloom, are one of the funniest duos in cinematic history. 158,772 | The rare film that has grown funnier with age, this star-studded murder-mystery spoof (inspired by the board game) was released in theaters with one of three randomly selected endings. Robert Webber, Votes: You want jokes? Copyright law, as well as other applicable federal and state laws, the content on this website may not be reproduced, distributed, displayed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, without the prior, express, and written permission of Athlon Media Group. Director: Thanks to the Criterion Channel, Howard Hawks’ witty and risqué spin on Snow White—starring Barbara Stanwyck as a nightclub singer who hides out from the mob at the home of seven bachelor professors (among them Gary Cooper), in exchange for teaching them slang words for their encyclopedia—is available to watch for the first time in years. Director: “Bueller? Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita. A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one. Paulo Costanzo, Is It Inappropriate to Refer to Electrical Cords and Sockets as 'Male' and 'Female'? Christian Marquand It's the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little sister. Comedy, Drama, Romance. | As a result, Jamie Lee Curtis (playing American con artist Wanda, in England to assist with a jewel heist) and Kevin Kline (as Wanda’s partner-in-crime Otto, an idiot who fancies himself a genius) give the best comic performances of their careers, holding their own against Cleese and his Monty Python pal Michael Palin. A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends. Vince Vaughn, Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me!” at an amused Ann Bancroft, it sparks one of the funniest, loneliest, and most memorable affairs in cinema history. 102 min $6.00M, R Julia Roberts brings oodles of charm and her contagious laugh to the role of streetwalker Vivian Ward, who catches the eye of a wealthy, lonely businessman (Richard Gere). | The epitome of the “screwball comedy” genre that emerged during the Depression, Howard Hawks’ delightful film stars Katherine Hepburn as a ditzy, free-spirited heiress, and Cary Grant as the uptight paleontologist who gets caught up in her whirlwind. 6,700 Director: | Gross: | Reverse it. | William H. Macy, In his sequel to his hit The Pink Panther, director Blake Edwards wisely turned the spotlight on a supporting character from the original film: Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the accident-prone detective played by the great Peter Sellers. Comedy, Romance. Christina Ricci, however, gets the best scene in the film, when Wednesday Addams enacts revenge on the spoiled rich kids and racist counselors at her summer camp. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are perfection in this cheeky musical comedy about two showgirls trying to find love aboard a cruise ship. Director: | A love letter to the live television of the 1950s (particularly the sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows), this comedy stars Peter O’Toole as Alan Swann, an aging Hollywood star who’s still partying like it’s 1940. Williams plays a voice actor who loses custody of his three kids to their much-more-competent mother (Sally Field), and decides to con his way back into their lives by impersonating a (female) housekeeper. 20,945 Richard Burton, $104.57M, R Katharine Ross, Answer: a feel-good comedy with big laughs, a killer soundtrack, and enough juice to inspire both a Broadway musical and a spin-off TV series. | | Blazing Saddles sends up the whole genre of Hollywood Westerns, highlighting the implicit racism of the cowboy myth by putting a black sheriff (the wonderful Cleavon Little) in the lead role. Pursuant to U.S. Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun. | The Dude abides in the Coen brothers’ offbeat comedy about a White Russian-sipping slacker (Jeff Bridges) who is assaulted by thugs mistaking him for a millionaire of the same name, then enlists his bowling teammates (John Goodman and Steve Buscemi) to seek restitution for a rug that the thugs peed on. 94 min 3,749 His father was a linotypist. The haunted dinner scene alone (“Day-o!”) merits the inclusion of Tim Burton’s singular suburban-gothic comedy, about a newly-dead couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who team up with a lewd, obnoxious demon (Michael Keaton) to scare away the new family (including Catherine O‘Hara and her death-obsessed stepdaughter Winona Ryder) who has moved into their home. | Gross: Carole Franck, Votes: Mila Kunis, Leigh McCloskey, Votes: 15,291 The Oscar-favorite biopic genre was long overdue for the kind of skewering it gets in Jake Kasdan’s comedy, which follows a fictional country-pop star (John C. Reilly) through the 50s, 60s and 70s, hitting every Hollywood-true-story cliche (surviving hardscrabble roots, instantaneously writing classic hits, getting introduced to drugs and hitting rock bottom) along the way. | Gross: Director: In his film debut (which predated the children’s show Pee-wee’s Playhouse), Pee-Wee goes on a road trip to recover his beloved red bicycle. In this merciless satire of the movie business (based on an Elmore Leonard novel), Miami loan shark Chili Palmer (John Travolta) tries to pitch his life as a film—and learns that working for the mob is great practice for Hollywood. Wasabi is a 2001 French action-comedy film directed by Gérard Krawczyk and written and produced by Luc Besson.The film stars Jean Reno, Michel Muller and Ryōko Hirosue.In France, it was released as Wasabi, la petite moutarde qui monte au nez ("Wasabi, the little mustard that gets right up your nose").. This raunchy graduation-party comedy, inspired by screenwriters Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s senior-year antics in Vancouver, is full of laugh-out-loud gags about booze, sex, cops and teenage friendship. Stars: | Gross: | Ginette Reno, | | Gross: Watching Chaplin play the fool in the guise of modern history’s greatest monster—before the world fully understood the true horrors of the Third Reich—still feels subversive. When Swann comes to New York City to appear on a live variety show, a young writer (Mark Linn-Baker) volunteers to help keep him in line—and gets a lot more than he bargained for. | Marlon Brando, Not Rated Things get even more complicated when they both fall for Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), an unlucky-in-love jazz singer who laments that she “always gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop.” The three stars are a dynamite trio, and keep you guessing right up until the film’s immortal last line. | Alyson Hannigan, | Tell us what you think about this feature. No one has ever made marriage look like more fun than Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy), the gorgeous detective duo who specialize in strong cocktails, sparkling repartee and solving murders. Both Reno 911! $4.06M, R 7,476 | Director: Max Parodi, Every line of Monty Python’s preposterous Arthurian saga has been quoted to death for decades, and yet characters like the Knights Who Say “Ni,” the Rabbit of Caerbannog and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot are as side-splittingly funny as they were in 1975.