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I approached The Pink Panther 2 with the firm belief that, no matter how ill inspired it might be, it certainly couldn't be worse than its 2006 predecessor, which set a new low bar for all things Clouseau. In fulfilling those expectations, The Pin...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-02-06
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Harald Zwart
Cast: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, ...
There are only two reasons to see The Pink Panther, and neither has anything to do with Steve Martin or his bastardization of Inspector Clouseau. The first is the opening credits cartoon - no matter how bad the movie, at least the title character,...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-02-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyoncé Knowles, ...
Despite arriving on North American screens mid-way through the month of November with a cast that features three previous Academy Award nominees (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson) and a similarly honored writer/director (Richa...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, ...
Pitch Perfect looks, sounds, and feels like pretty much every other movie that features a singing or dancing competition. With all the effort invested in the musical numbers, the dramatic elements feel like warmed-over John Hughes. And it's not eve...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-09-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: MUSICAL/COMEDY
Director: Jason Moore
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, ...
Spoiler Warning! Because I reveal things about the ending of Pitch Perfect 2 in this review, I am duty-bound to warn readers in case they wish to stop now. (Of course, if you don't care, feel free to continue…) I am as far from the targ...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-05-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Musical
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, ...
The Adam Sandler slide continues. Sandler, once a box office giant whose stock has plummeted in recent years, no longer seems capable of making a watchable movie. His latest, Pixels, an homage to the early 1980s video game craze, offers an appeal to ...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-07-24
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Science Fiction/Comedy
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, ...
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, a 1987 feature from John Hughes, represented something of a watershed in the career of the prolific writer/director/producer. Prior to this film, Hughes had been known for his contribution to the popular '80s genre...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-11-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Playing by Heart is an ensemble dramatic comedy about the many faces of love: romance, longing, loss, sex, and lust. Set in modern-day L.A., the film tells six seemingly-unrelated tales about men and women finding each other, losing each other, u...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Willard Carroll
Cast: Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson, ...
Playing for Keeps is a sloppy, poorly focused comedy that wants to be about the relationship between a father and his 9-year old son but ends up being about nearly everything else. The core problem is clear: the interaction between ex-soccer star G...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-12-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Noah Lomax, ...
Playtime, the 1967 comedy from acclaimed French director Jacques Tati, is an odd film (even coming out of a tradition of filmmaking that prided itself on defying conventions and breaking barriers). With no real plot and little in the way of ch...
U.S. Release Date: 1973-06-27
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jacques Tati
Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek