Movies in the Comedy genre
Finally, a 2007 sequel that's demonstrably better than its predecessor! Alas, considering how bad Bruce Almighty was, that's damning with faint praise. The central problem with Evan Almighty is that the filmmakers pack too much plot into what sho...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-06-22
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, ...
For those hoping that writer/director Richard Linklater would use the success of his two previous films, Before Midnight and Boyhood, as springboards to a deeper, more meaningful exploration of the “human experience,” Everybody Wants Some!! is go...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-04-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Blake Jenner, Juston Street, Ryan Guzman, ...
In the past decade, only two live-action, mainstream musical motion pictures have been released. While the first, Little Shop of Horrors, met with some success, the second, Newsies, was a box-office disaster. The poor performance of the Disney-ba...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: MUSICAL/COMEDY
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Natalie Portman, Lukas Haas, ...
What do you get when you cross George Romero with The Three Stooges by way of the director of A Simple Plan and The Gift? Something offbeat, to be sure. Something grotesque, without a doubt. Something... groovy. Evil Dead II can be seen as ...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-03-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, ...
There's a prescription for making an effective dark comedy: the film must generate equal parts discomfort and laughter. The Ex offers plenty of the former but precious little of the latter. The movie is populated by dislikeable individuals doing ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jesse Peretz
Cast: Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, ...
Break out the whips and chains! We're going on a trip to an island called Eden, where the dominatrix Mistress Lisa holds court and just about anything (supposedly) goes. And, judging from the actual journey, if author Anne Rice has any complaints...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-10-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell, ...
After the indignity visited upon his previous feature, Idiocracy, one can forgive writer/director Mike Judge's a certain mistrust of distributors. However, while the dump-and-run approach utilized by 20th Century Fox in 2006 is not in evidence her...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-09-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Mike Judge
Cast: Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunis, ...
Everyone knows John Turturro as an actor. After starting out his career during the early 1980s, he became a regular in movies made by Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers. He has worked for Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Robert Redford. And, when he ...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/ROMANCE
Director: John Turturro
Cast: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, ...
Failure to Launch fails at more than just launching. It fails at romance and comedy. It fails to make the lead characters interesting and their love affair believable. And it fails to develop a consistent tone that would enable viewers to suspend...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-03-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Tom Dey
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zooey Deschanel, ...
The Fall Guy represents what a true “summer movie” should be: a light, fast-paced spectacle with likeable characters and a balance between action/eye candy and narrative elements. No one is going to call Drew Pearce’s screenplay a masterpiec...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-05-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: David Leitch
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, ...