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Greed is a movie starring Asa Butterfield, Isla Fisher, and Sophie Cookson. Satire about the world of the super-rich; ratings 5,7 of 10; directed by Michael Winterbottom; 2019; Writers Michael Winterbottom, Sean Gray; genre Drama. I dont feel sorry for this fools.
I can´t stop watching this They are so Perfect. Comedy genre help find film skydrive greed 2. Still salty this was never released as a single. couldve been a huge hit. The best comedies in the history of cinema achieve more than just making you laugh (although, granted, it’s not a great comedy if it barely makes you crack a smile). Classic romcoms like ‘Notting Hill’ have us yearning for true love while teen movies like ‘Mean Girls’ get us cringing at memories of being too dorky to join the cool gang at school (and ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ ticks both boxes). Then there are the political satires, like ‘The Death of Stalin’, which serve up uncomfortable truths alongside the funnies. And finally, when we need to get into the festive spirit, the Christmas film archives are crammed with titles that leave you giggling into your eggnog. All of which makes choosing the 100 best comedies of all time a little tricky. To help us with the task, we enlisted the help of comedians (such as Russell Howard and Diane Morgan), actors (John Boyega and Jodie Whittaker, among others), directors and screenwriters (including Richard Curtis), as well as several Time Out writers. So the next time you need something to turn that frown upside down, you’ll know where to start. RECOMMENDED: London and UK cinema listings, film reviews and exclusive interviews The 100 best comedy movies 100 Film, Comedy Meet the Parents (2000) ‘I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me? ’ Director: Jay Roach Cast: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro Meeting your partner’s parents is bound to be stressful – but Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) has it worse than most. Turns out his potential father in law (Robert De Niro) is a former CIA agent with a suspicious nature – and a polygraph lie-detector machine at his disposal. Over the course of an eventful visit, Focker’s misfortune builds to a farcical crescendo as his intended (Teri Polo) looks on. Stiller is on hilarious, hapless form and De Niro has never been funnier. AS Buy, watch or rent 'Meet the Parents' 99 Mean Girls (2004) 'You can't sit with us. ' Director: Mark Waters Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett When Cady (Lindsay Lohan) moves from being home-schooled by her parents in Africa to an American high school, she has rude awakening. Confronted by the school's hierarchy where popularity means everything, she finds herself infiltrating the girl clique The Plastics. Loaded with laugh-out-loud moments, the script, penned by Tina Fey, is filled with zingers. It's a film that provides genuine insight and empathy as well as a hefty dose of putdowns and comeuppances. AK Buy, rent or watch 'Mean Girls' 98 Film, Drama Pulp Fiction (1994) ‘It's the one that says Bad Motherfucker. ’ Director: Quentin Tarantino Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson Is ‘Pulp Fiction’ a comedy? Perhaps only in the sense that all Quentin Tarantino’s films, from ‘Reservoir Dogs’ to ‘The Hateful Eight’, have a solid streak of black humour running through them – and whatever the genre or story, they're often fuelled by the disconnect between their characters’ chat and their violent scenarios. That’s largely down to Tarantino’s playful use of language, typified in this stylised crime tale by hitmen John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson chewing the fat over their favourite burgers or discussing why one of them refuses to eat pork. Jackson especially proves himself a master of gallows humour. DC Buy, rent or watch 'Pulp Fiction' 97 Film, Action and adventure Hot Fuzz (2007) ‘You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village. ’ Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman Edgar Wright’s follow-up to ‘Shaun of the Dead’ is a bigger, busier, slightly less focused ramble through small-town cop-movie clichés, but it might just be the better film, benefiting from a script packed with smart one-liners and neat riffs on everything from Hammer horror to cosy ITV dramas. It also, lest we forget, sports arguably the finest supporting cast ever assembled, with (very deep breath) Paddy Considine, Jim Broadbent, Billie Whitelaw, Martin Freeman, Olivia Colman, Edward Woodward, Bill Nighy, Timothy Dalton, The Actor Kevin Eldon, both Adam and Joe, Rory ‘The Hound’ McCann and even a masked Cate Blanchett all getting in on the action. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Hot Fuzz' 96 Pathé Exchange Safety Last! (1923) ‘The idea of working in your shirt sleeves! Think of the shock to your customers, women of culture and refinement! ’ Director: Fred C Newmeyer Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis Always sporting round specs and straw boater, silent comedian Harold Lloyd’s shtick was to cultivate a likeable boy-next-door persona, then put his protagonist in hair-raising jeopardy. In his best-known feature, his plan to get an athletic acquaintance to climb a department store facade as a publicity stunt backfires, so Harold tackles the perilous ascent himself. Cue pesky pigeons and an inconvenient clock face in a beautifully constructed, very funny set-piece whose clever use of perspective creates vertiginous thrills without back projection – or a single computer pixel! TJ 95 The Graduate (1967) ‘It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. ’ Director: Mike Nichols Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross It’s easy to forget that, in the pre-blockbuster days, ‘The Graduate’ was one of the biggest box-office smashes of all time (it’s still No 21, adjusted for inflation). So what was it about this intimate, simple drama – a film we’d now refer to as an indie, even though it was studio-made – that captured the public imagination? Quite simply, it was a matter of timing: here was a film that, with its depiction of bourgeois boredom, teenage angst and sexual liberation (not to mention those awesome Simon and Garfunkel songs) absolutely nailed the mood of the late 1960s. TH Buy, rent or watch 'The Graduate' 94 20th Century Fox Film Local Hero (1983) 'We've been invaded by America. We're all gonna be rich! ' Director: Bill Forsyth Cast: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Peter Capaldi If you’re ever suffering from chilly cockles, Bill Forsyth’s twinkly, good-hearted comedy will warm them right up – and in the wake of Donald Trump’s terrifying ascendance, it’s even more timely. Peter Riegert plays an American lawyer dispatched by his oil-baron boss to Scotland to secure the site for their next refinery. But whaddaya know – it’s right on top of a quaint little fishing village populated by wise, loveable Scotspersons. Epic adorable-ness ensues. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Local Hero' 93 The Philadelphia Story (1940) ‘The course of true love gathers no moss. ’ Director: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart A romcom that sparkles like champagne, ‘The Philadelphia Story’ is a delicious comedy of misunderstandings and misdemeanours. Which of three men will win the heart of Katharine Hepburn’s icy heiress on the eve of her wedding: her millionaire ex-husband Cary Grant, snooping reporter James Stewart or her dull businessman fiancé John Howard? At the end you might decide that she picks the wrong man, but you can’t argue with the fact that this witty, charming and romantic movie is a near-perfect comedy. CC Buy, rent or watch 'The Philadelphia Story' 92 Harold and Maude (1971) ‘Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. ’ Director: Hal Ashby Cast: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon Genre-non-specific movies like ‘Harold and Maude’ have suffered on this list: is it really a comedy? Isn’t there a bit too much death and holocaust talk for that? But if it’s not a comedy, what is ‘Harold and Maude’? Therein, of course, lies its genius: it’s not anything, except real. Controversial on first release, forgotten for decades and then happily rediscovered (at least in part thanks to Cameron Diaz in ‘There’s Something About Mary’), ‘Harold and Maude’ is now firmly established as one of the all-time romantic classics. The central relationship may be unconventional – teenage boy falls for 79-year-old concentration camp survivor – but the themes of self-discovery and universal love speak to all of us. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Harold and Maude' 91 Photo: Francois Duhamel Booksmart Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) are two high-school besties on the cusp of living their best Ivy League dreams. But on graduation day they discover a cruel fact: a life of bookish abstinence isn’t the only pathway to those ivory towers. Their cooler, sexier, harder-partying classmates are likewise heading to elite universities. Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut captures the friends’ hilarious (and heartfelt) attempt to grab the fun they deserve before leaving town. Following her scene-stealing role as Saoirse Ronan’s sidekick in ‘Lady Bird’, Feldstein yet again proves she’s one of the funniest actresses around (and the one we’d really, really love to be pals with IRL). 90 There's Something About Mary (1998) ‘It’s like you’re dreamin’ about gorgonzola cheese when it’s clearly brie time, baby! ’ Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly Cast: Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon The Farrelly Brothers are best known for reinventing gross-out comedy 20 years after ‘Animal House’, and it’s hard to argue that the best-known scenes in ‘There’s Something About Mary’ are the hilariously awful ones: the zip, the cum in the hair, the electrocuted dog. But underneath all that, it’s the film’s irrepressible sweetness that makes it sing: Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller give career-making performances, their affair is tentative and totally convincing – and Jonathan Richman’s musical cameos tie it all together. TH Buy, rent or watch 'There's Something About Mary' 89 United Artists The Gold Rush (1925) 'Climbing! Plodding! Mushing! Back and forth... back and forth. ' Director: Charlie Chaplin Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain Chaplin’s little tramp finds himself braving the Alaskan gold rush in this celebrated silent feature, whose surreal invention – watch him fend off starvation by chomping down his boots – has gone down in screen history. The romantic asides (his poignant longing for a flighty showgirl) still play too, showcasing the sophistication of Chaplin’s acting as well as his facility for balletic knockabout. Lovely stuff, but do try to see the silent original rather than the awkwardly narrated sound reissue. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'The Gold Rush' 88 New Line Cinema The Mask (1994) ‘Ooh, somebody stop me! ’ Director: Chuck Russell Cast: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert When The Mask first came out in 1994, reviewers raved about the ultra-modern special effects used to turn Jim Carrey into a living cartoon. While the CGI might not have stood the test of time, Carrey’s elastic performance as shy nice guy Stanley and his alter ego The Mask is just as enthralling. Jim’s Mask is a grotesque green-faced schmooze-ball with a passion for farting, cheesy chat-up lines and Cameron Diaz. And, most importantly, he’s sssssmokin’! KL Buy, rent or watch 'The Mask' 87 Broadcast News (1987) ‘It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room. ’ Director: James L Brooks Cast: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter If you thought ‘Anchorman’ was the only cult comedy about life in a television newsroom, you’ve been missing out. ‘Broadcast News’ is a cutting satire about the Washington DC office of a national television network. It follows a love triangle between a news-producer (Holly Hunter), her good-looking anchor (William Hurt) and her newshound reporter (Albert Brooks). Their romances and professional aspirations play out amidst the backstabbing and bitching of a true-to-life high-pressure office. Plus, it features a bonus cameo from Jack Nicholson. KL Buy, rent or watch 'Broadcast News' 86 Paramount Pictures School of Rock (2003) 'Dude, I service society by rocking. I’m out there on the front lines liberating people with my music. Rocking ain't no walk in the park, lady. ' Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Jack Black, Mike White Jack Black is at his most endearing in this underdog story about a struggling musician who poses as a substituted teacher and ends up coaching a class if misfits to compete in a Battle of the Bands. Sure, it echoes 'Sister Act 2', but Richard Linklater's film pretty much defines the term 'ebullient'. It sails on a wave of pin-shap one-liners, constant heavy riffage and plucky performances from the young cast. TH Buy, rent or watch 'School of Rock' 85 Waiting for Guffman (1996) ‘People say, “You must have been the class clown. ” And I say, “No, I wasn’t. But I sat next to the class clown and I studied him. ”’ Director: Christopher Guest Cast: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara As axeman Nigel Tufnel, Christopher Guest was part of the timeless success of ‘This Is Spinal Tap’. But he also picked up the filmmaking baton, going on to direct masterworks of situational improv such as ‘Best in Show’, ‘For Your Consideration’ and this movie. The superb cast play members of a small-town, amateur-dramatic society pinning their hopes on a visit from a big-shot critic, though what he’ll make of the pageant ‘Red, White and Blaine’ is regrettably clear to everyone else. Often painful, sometimes moving, frequently hilarious, it’s an oddball delight and a tribute to self-deluding ambition everywhere. BW Buy, rent or watch 'Wating for Guffman' 84 Amazon The Big Sick (2017) ‘So... to fully know I love someone, I have to cheat on them? ’ Director: Michael Showalter Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano There aren’t too many modern comedies with the chutzpah to pull off a 9/11 joke. There are even fewer to give us a Pakistani-American culture-shock romance that isn’t awash with clichés (okay, ignoring at least one killer Uber gag). Take a bow, then, Emily V Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, the real-life couple who penned an inspired-by-real-life gem that does both – and a whole lot more besides. We meet Emily (Zoe Kazan plays Gordon’s on-screen surrogate) and Kumail (Nanjiani playing a version of himself) doing all the standard stuff: dating, having sex, watching Vincent Prices movies. Then she falls into a coma and suddenly for Kumail, there’s heartache, hospitals and parents to deal with. Funny and wise, ‘The Big Sick’ is one of those rare comedies with something genuinely fresh to say. PDS Buy, rent or watch ‘The Big Sick’ 83 Universal Pictures Sullivan's Travels (1941) ‘There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh. It isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing in this cock-eyed caravan. ’ Director: Preston Sturges Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake ‘Sullivan’s Travels’ is perhaps best known today as being the movie that ‘inspired’ the Coens’ ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou? ’, but this meaning-of-life masterpiece deserves so much more. At once witty, wacky, wholesome, devious and devastatingly smart, it showcases director Preston Sturges at the absolute pinnacle of his game, offering up not just a wildly entertaining Hollywood romp but a razor sharp (and explosively political) examination of why comedy matters at all. A work of genius, plain and simple. And damn, Veronica Lake! TH Buy, rent or watch 'Sullivan's Travels' 82 DreamWorks Pictures Old School (2003) 'Every now and then I get a little bit nervous then I see the fuckin’ look in your eyes... ’ Director: Todd Phillips Cast: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn Rebooting the frat comedy for the slightly-more-sensitive ’00s while keeping the band-of-misfits ethos intact, ‘Old School’ is basically ‘Animal House’ with a bigger heart and a few more grey hairs. The plot – grown-up dudes take a house near a university campus and decide, for reasons too convoluted to go into, to start their own fraternity – may be daft, but the superb script is matched by effortless performances: Will Ferrell’s Frank the Tank is a glorious creation. Oh, and the wedding band scene is genius, pure and simple. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Old School' 81 Slap Shot (1977) ‘I may be bald, but at least I'm not chickenshit like you. ’ Director: George Roy Hill Cast: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean Paul Newman thrives in what’s surely the least-heroic, worst-dressed role of his career as the has-been player-coach of a lower-league ice hockey team, threatened by closure just as their fortunes improve by whacking the living daylights out of their opponents. Pilloried at the time for its relentlessly salty language, George Roy Hill’s film has since gathered a considerable cult following and now stands as a milestone sports comedy that’s also a telling portrait of threatened masculinity in a declining America. Well worth discovering. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'Slap Shot' 80 The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) ‘Compared to Clouseau, Attila the Hun was a Red Cross volunteer! ’ Director: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer Eleven years after ‘A Shot in the Dark’, Edwards and Sellers revived the Clouseau franchise. And though several dismal cash-ins followed, quality control is still in evidence for this sequel to the first movie, with Christopher Plummer now the gem-snaffling Sir Charles and Catherine Schell battling to keep a straight face as his slinky spouse under close surveillance by a disguise-swapping Sellers. Twitchy boss Herbert Lom and ninja butler Burt Kwouk rather overplay their hand, but Sellers’ mangled Gallic vowels remain resplendent. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'The Return of the Pink Panther' 79 Office Space (1999) 'It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. ’ Director: Mike Judge Cast: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston Before ‘The Office’ was a glint in Ricky and Steve’s eye, Mike Judge – the brains behind ‘Beavis and Butthead’ – offered this heartfelt cry from the heart on behalf of disaffected desk monkeys everywhere. Ron Livingston plays Pete Gibbons, a profoundly demotivated corporate employee who winds up jacking it in for a get-rich-quick scheme. The plot is well handled but it’s the grating banality of day-to-day office life that really hits home – also expressed through the indignities heaped on Jennifer Aniston’s waitress. PH Buy, rent or watch 'Office Space' 78 The Great Dictator (1940) ‘Heil Hynkel! ’ Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard Charlie Chaplin’s courageous 1940 satire sees him sending up Adolf Hitler as the fictional despot Adenoid Hynckel. The famous scene where he dances with a giant globe offers a comic pisstake on vaunting megalomania, though there’s also a murderous reality to Hynkel’s behaviour – and prescient talk of ‘concentration camps’. Overall, it’s more a movie about the power of comedy than a chuckle-fest in itself, since the subplot with Chaplin also playing a plucky barber rather struggles to raise a smile. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'The Great Dictator' 77 TriStar Pictures As Good As It Gets (1997) 'People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch. ’ Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt Grumpy older man meets lonely younger woman while befriending/insulting his gay neighbour. Both edgy and heartwarming, ‘As Good As It Gets’ is a relationship comedy about unlikely friendships and even less likely romance. When Jack Nicholson’s cantankerous OCD sufferer meets Helen Hunt’s kindly waitress Carol, it’s hate at first sight, but his grudging assistance to an injured neighbour (Greg Kinnear) brings the pair closer. Nicholson’s jaw-dropping insults make this worth the watch alone. AS Buy, rent or watch 'As Good As It Gets' 76 Warner Bros. Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (1994) ‘If I’m not back in five minutes... just wait longer. ’ Director: Tom Shadyac Cast: Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young When ‘Snowflake’, a 500-pound dolphin and mascot of American football team the Miami Dolphins, is stolen on the eve of the Super Bowl, the only person with the animal instincts to solve the crime is Ace Ventura. Played by Jim Carrey, he’s a second-tier detective with a penchant for Hawaiian shirts and the hyperactive energy of a six-year-old. It’s Carrey at his most Carrey. Be warned: there’s a lot of toilet humour. KL 75 Buena Vista Pictures The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) ‘“Vamonos, amigos, ” he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight. ’ Director: Wes Anderson Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Luke Wilson Wes Anderson’s second feature film follows three child prodigies turned adult burnouts, called back to New York by their dying father. Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson and Ben Stiller play the siblings, who function in a typically Anderson world painted in hyper-stylised strokes and grubby pastel shades. The script (especially the narration from Alec Baldwin) is full of dry wit, but it’s the sweetly sad narrative about love and disappointment that gives the film its magic. KL Buy, rent or watch 'The Royal Tenenbaums' 74 Kingpin (1996) ‘ You’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels. ’ Directors: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly Cast: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Bill Murray The oft-overlooked oddity squeezed between the giant blockbuster tentpoles (oo-er) of ‘Dumb and Dumber’ and ‘There’s Something About Mary’, ‘Kingpin’ sees the Farrelly Brothers drawing on some mysterious inner pool of inexplicable comedy genius and coming up with the ludicrous tale of a thatch-headed Amish bowling prodigy (Quaid) and his bitter, one-handed mentor (Harrelson) as they head cross-country to the national championships. Lin Shaye’s turn as Harrelson’s grotesque, sexually rapacious landlady is unforgettably despicable. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Kingpin' 73 Best in Show (2000) 'Bratwurst and shillelaghs... Paging Dr. Freud! ’ Cast: Jane Lynch, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey The best of Christopher Guest’s post-‘Spinal Tap’ mockumentaries (see also ‘Waiting for Guffman’, ‘A Mighty Wind’ and… actually, don’t see ‘For Your Consideration’), this chronicle of a dog show overflows with hilarious caricatures, from yuppies and A-gays to laconic backwoodsmen and addled commentators. The largely improvised material is generally geared around character rather than out-and-out gags but the simmering neuroses and blithely inane foot-in-mouth outbursts build to a fist-biting tsunami of excruciation. BW Buy, rent or watch 'Best in Show' 72 Way Out West (1936) ‘Any bird can build a nest, but it’s not everyone that can lay an egg. ’ Director: James W Horne Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Laurel and Hardy’s frontier tale is their most varied featurette, and ranks with their very best. Having witlessly contrived to hand over a valuable property deed to a scheming saloon owner, their attempts to make amends involve an airborne mule, an ill-fated piano and much tickling. All this plus several utterly charming old-timey musical numbers (including 1970s novelty number one ‘Trail of the Lonesome Pine’) and the convincingly surreal sight of Ollie using his thumb as a lighter. Solid gold. TJ 71 Mr Hulot's Holiday (1953) 'Mr. Hulot is off for a week by the sea. Take a seat behind his camera, and you can spend it with him. ' Director: Jacques Tati Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla A sleepy French seaside resort becomes the playground for director-star Jacques Tati’s lanky, kindly middle-aged bachelor Monsieur Hulot, whose efforts at enjoying himself invariably end in disaster. Former mime Tati essentially dispenses with dialogue, but while his approach certainly draws on silent comedy, he's less interested in quick-fire slapstick than slowly escalating complications whose intricate choreography often proves more whimsical, or beautiful even, than out-and-out hilarious. Filled with sunny nostalgia and bittersweet longing, its funny-sad demeanour is quintessential Tati. TJ 70 The Cable Guy (1996) ‘Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac. ’ Director: Ben Stiller Cast: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann Produced by Judd Apatow, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Jim Carrey, Jack Black and Matthew Broderick, ‘The Cable Guy’ has all the building blocks of a legendary lad comedy. The film is no bromance though – Carrey plays a manic cable guy who drags newly single Broderick into his twisted fantasy world. Featuring a weird scene where a trip to a Medieval-themed restaurant leads to the two pals jousting viciously, this dark comedy’s strengths lie in revealing the nasty side of Carrey’s acting persona. KL Buy, rent or watch 'The Cable Guy' 69 Top Secret! (1984) ‘I know a little German. He’s sitting over there. ’ Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker Cast: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Billy J Mitchell Eager to parody the WWII spy flick but keenly aware that, despite what Mel Brooks might think, the Nazis really weren’t all that funny, the ‘Airplane’ team of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker hit upon the notion of a dimwit American rock star sent into East Berlin to infiltrate the Russkies. The result isn’t quite as rampantly gag-stuffed as either ‘Airplane! ’ or ‘The Naked Gun’, but the jokes there are land hard: Peter Cushing’s amazing giant eye, Kilmer’s pitch-perfect Beach Boys parody and some timeless wordplay (see above). TH Buy, rent or watch 'Top Secret! ' 68 © Nicola Dove The Death of Stalin (2017) ‘Don’t worry, nobody’s gonna get killed. This is just a musical emergency! ’ Director: Armando Iannucci Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, Jason Isaacs If you thought Armando Iannucci had already mined political cynicism to its fullest with ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘In the Loop’, he taps a rich new seam in a second directorial effort that swaps modern-day bureaucracy for deadlier Stalinist double-dealing. The threat of a Siberian gulag – or worse – hangs over every whispered, paranoid exchange as a cabal of conspirators exploit Joseph Stalin’s possibly fatal haemorrhage for their own ends. With an ensemble of comic luminaries, from Jeffrey Tambor to Michael Palin, savouring every needle-sharp line of dialogue, it’s a masterclass in twisted hilarity that makes Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ look like a trip to a petting zoo. PDS Buy, rent or watch ‘The Death of Stalin’ 67 Take the Money and Run (1969) 'Nobody wears beige to a bank robbery! ’ Director: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire If you try to rob a bank, it helps if you can convince the bank you’re a robber. And if you play the cello, it’s maybe best not to join a marching brass band. Such is the life of Virgil Starkwell, the remarkably committed and useless criminal who, as a kid. ‘Take the Money and Run’, Woody Allen’s directorial debut, is a messy, at times romantic, often baggy film, full of sight gags, overlaid with some of Allen's most trusted nightclub material. If this lacks the emotional dexterity of Allen’s mid-career film, it remains a remarkable early calling card for one of the twentieth-century’s defining comic actor/directors. TS 66 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) 'There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. ’ Director: Tim Burton Cast: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton Paul Reubens’s signature comedy creation, mischief-making bow-tied big kid Pee-wee Herman, was already a big live draw before Tim Burton’s movie preserved this unique persona for celluloid immortality. A wide-eyed innocent abroad and a prissy egotist with a malevolent streak, Pee-wee certainly dances to his own beat, though it’s one Burton is certainly attuned to, creating a cavalcade of carnivalesque wit, wonder and fear as the dauntless protagonist crosses America in search of his beloved stolen bicycle. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure' 65 Heaven Can Wait (1943) 'It’s a father's function to save his son from the mistakes he made. ’ Director: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn A satirical portrait of a womaniser who messes up the great romance right in front of him, this Technicolor delight from the legendary Ernst Lubitsch features the screen’s most elegant visualisation of hell: all marble columns and shiny floors, presided over by Laird Cregar’s suave Satan, who decides whether new arrival Don Ameche is to go ‘down below’ or ‘up above’. This is a sophisticated watch – if a little forgiving of male foibles, and more likely to give you an attack of wry smiles than out-and-out guffaws. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'Heaven Can Wait' 64 Film, Thrillers GoodFellas (1990) 'I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? ’ Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro An unusual entry in a list of comedy movies, you might think – but top comedians voted for it, and here it is. And hey, Martin Scorsese’s ferocious gangster flick is damn funny, when it isn’t busy being terrifying, paranoid and ultraviolent. Joe Pesci‘s rabid chihuahua Tommy may grab most of the comic lines, including the infamous ‘funny how? ’ speech. But Ray Liotta is no slouch in the raise-a-smile department, his sheer coke-fuelled haplessness a vital corrective to the steely gangster heroes of ‘The Godfather’. TH Buy, rent or watch 'GoodFellas' 63 Bananas (1971) ‘I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. ’ Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán The plot of Woody Allen’s second feature movie sounds like a Seth Rogen stoner comedy: lazy guy stumbles into job as leader of a South American revolution. Except this is a Woody Allen film, so amidst daft slapstick, cutting one-liners and guerrilla warfare you’ll find commentary on the corruption of power and the role of the media. It’s a bit mad – there’s one scene where someone orders 1, 000 grilled cheese sandwiches – but it’s one of Allen’s best. KL Buy, rent or watch 'Bananas' 62 Wayne's World (1992) ‘Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny? ’ Director: Penelope Spheeris Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Tia Carrere ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketches have been responsible for at least as many terrible movies as great ones (‘A Night at the Roxbury’, anyone? ), but when they work, they’re unforgettable. Overgrown headbanger Wayne and his sidekick Garth may have started out as a pastiche of no-way-dude metalhead doofuses, but their first full-length movie goes out of its way to transform them into rounded, loveable, very nearly believable characters. It’s a perfect double act, and the movie wisely keeps them front and centre even as wacky business is breaking out all over. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Wayne's World' 61 A Fish Called Wanda (1988) ‘You’re the vulgarian, you fuck! ’ Director: Charles Crichton Cast: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin Perhaps the best British comedy since the heyday of Python, since John Cleese deliberately attempted to move away from satirical silliness and back to a more inclusive, plot-driven, unmistakably British brand of comic caper. (He even went so far as to hire 78-year-old Ealing stalwart Charles Crichton to direct. ) The result is a film which, like its slippery American heroine, is madly in love with language, from tongue-teasingly delicious sarcasm to some truly outrageous swearing. Add to this four iconic performances (five if you count the inimitable Tom Georgeson as cockernee gangster George ‘Unbe-fackin’-lieveable! ’ Thomason), and the result speaks for itself. TH Buy, rent or watch 'A Fish Called Wanda' 60 Midnight Run (1988) ‘Nothing personal, but fuck off. ’ Director: Martin Brest Cast: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin A film whose reputation seems to grow with each passing year (it’s shot up by 34 places since the last time we put together this list), ‘Midnight Run’ comes on like just another buddies-on-the-road comedy thriller. That is, until you notice just how flawlessly written and ferociously performed it is. Robert De Niro wisely plays it straight as the bail bondsman tracking down mob informant Charles Grodin, who proceeds to whinge and whine all the way from New York to LA. The pace is relentless, the supporting players are brilliantly sketched and the script cuts like a scalpel. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Midnight Run' 59 Clueless (1995) ‘Why should I listen to you, anyway? You're a virgin who can't drive. ’ Director: Amy Heckerling Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy Based on Jane Austen's 'Emma', 'Clueless' follows Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), a teenager obsessed with shopping and clothes, as she guides newbie Tai (Brittnay Murphy) through high school. It's much more than a teen movie, however - for a film that's over 20 year old, 'Clueless' still holds a lot of cultural clout, whether it's inspiring music videos, fashion trends or on-going cries of 'As if! ' Mostly, though, it's that stellar performance from Silverstone that gives this film so much charm and wit. AK Buy, rent or watch 'Clueless' 58 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) ‘Insanity runs in my family… it practically gallops. ’ Director: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey This 1944 jet-black farce about serial-killing old dears was years ahead of its time. Cary Grant’s a real trouper, all wide eyes and double takes, as he uncovers the dark secret of his dotty aunt’s cellar. He shifts into another gear when his sinister murderous brother (Raymond Massey) enters the fray. Plotted with precision, delivered with panache, still a model of controlled comic hysteria. TJ 57 © DR Mrs Doubtfire (1993) 'He was hit by a Guinness truck. So it was quite literally the drink that killed him. ’ Director: Chris Columbus Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan The set-up of this 1993 family comedy might be slushy and very, very silly, but it showcases Robin Williams at his most anarchic. He plays struggling actor and divorced dad Daniel who tries to stay in his kids’ lives by dressing up as an (unconvincing and slightly creepy) older woman and getting hired by his ex-wife (Sally Field) to be the children’s nanny. What comes next is a whole lot of meddling. KL Buy, rent or watch 'Mrs Doubtfire' 56 It Happened One Night (1934) ‘I don't know very much about him, except that I love him. ’ Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
Ask a film historian: what was the first ever romcom? Chances are they’ll tell you that it’s this this deliciously fizzy 1934 screwball comedy. Clark Gable is the newspaper hack who stumbles across a spoilt heiress (Claudette Colbert) on the bus to New York – she’s running away from her rich daddy to marry a fortune hunter. Pay attention and you’ll see elements that romcom scriptwriters have been ‘paying homage’ to ever since: a couple who can’t stand each other at first sight, quick-fire bickering and the realisation that they’re head-over-heels. Irresistible. CC Buy, rent or watch 'It Happened One Night' 55 Disney Film, Animation Toy Story (1995) 'You are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity. ' Director: John Lasseter Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles As the first Pixar animated feature film, 'Toy Story' set out the studio's M. O. perfectly: to make films that are just as entertaining for adults as they are for kids. Jokes and references that only grownups will 'get' elevates the story of the rivalry between toy cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), the new toy on the block. It's the perfect combination of action and adventure that packs genuine heart and buckets of lols. AK Buy, rent or watch 'Toy Story' 54 The Man With Two Brains (1983) ‘Into the mud, scum queen! ’ Director: Carl Reiner Cast: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner The early Steve Martin movies catch comedy at a crossroads: on the surface they’re old-school slapstick romps complete with dubious innuendo, pratfalls and happy-ever-after endings, a short step from Abbott and Costello. But they also manage to incorporate the best of everything new that was happening in comedy at the time: the sight-gag overload of ‘Airplane! ’, the romance of Woody Allen, the confrontational attitude of the new stand-ups and perfect surrealism of Martin’s own live act. TH Buy, rent or watch 'THe Man With Two Brains' 53 Bedazzled (1967) I, Stanley Moon, hereinafter and in the hereafter to be known as “the damned”… The damned? ’ Director: Stanley Donen Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron Forget the underwhelming remake with Brendan Fraser and Liz Hurley. The original ‘Bedazzled’ is a vintage piece of swinging London comedy and probably Pete and Dud’s finest big-screen outing. Dudley Moore is a sad-sack cook mooning after a waitress (Eleanor Bron) and Peter Cook plays the devil, who procures his soul in exchange for seven wishes. What follows is a Faustian series of set-pieces – some witty, some garish, some a tad aged – that offer plenty of opportunities for the duo’s distinctive power play. BW 52 The Odd Couple (1968) ‘He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie. ’ Director: Gene Saks Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau Unrepentant slob Oscar (Walter Matthau) and cleaning-obsessive neurotic Felix (Jack Lemmon) make a perfect match as two old pals driven by marriage troubles to sharing a Manhattan apartment. This film version plonks Neil Simon’s Broadway smash on screen without rethinking it for celluloid. Still, the obvious theatricality allows the performers to play to their contrasting strengths, whipping up a frenzy of love-hate exasperation underpinned by life-long friendship. It’s so funny because it’s so believable – everyone knows an Oscar and a Felix. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'The Odd Couple' 51 Sons of the Desert (1933) ‘Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into. ’ Director: William A Seiter Eccentric man-child Stan Laurel and roly-poly fall-guy Oliver Hardy make the screen’s most revered comedy double-act and this is reckoned to be their finest 68 minutes, as the boys plot to evade their domineering wives and slope off to their fraternal lodge convention. It all goes horribly wrong, of course, setting off a whole series of inventive, exquisitely timed sight-gags as the hapless twosome wind up hiding out in their own attic. Short, sharp and delightful. TJ 50 Raising Arizona (1987) ‘Does the Pope wear a funny hat? ’ Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Cast: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter Baby-snatching is probably not the most obvious topic for a slapstick comedy movie, but the Coen brothers manage to spin sinister crime into seedy comedy with ‘Raising Arizona’. Nicholas Cage appears as a bumbling convenience-store robber who falls in love with his prison officer (Edwina Hunter). After fertility problems they decide to kidnap a just-born quintuplet. Thus starts a steamrolling caper that tumbles through a madcap depiction of the American Deep South. KL Buy, rent or watch 'Raising Arizona' 49 In the Loop (2009) ‘I don’t want to have to read you the riot act, but I am going to have to read you some extracts from the riot act. ’ Cast: Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini Scabrous and smart, Armando Iannucci’s political satire is the sort of film that rewards repeated viewing, if only to catch the jokes you laughed through last time round. It opens out the action from original sitcom ‘The Thick of It’ by sending mad-eyed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, hapless government minister Simon Foster and their cohorts to the States, where they flip and flop for our entertainment, groping towards a coherent policy. The vulgarity is tumultuous, the wit pointed and the performances impeccably judged. Proof that transferring a great sitcom to the big screen need not be difficult, difficult, lemon difficult. GT Buy, rent or watch 'In the Loop' 48 The King of Comedy (1982) ‘Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime! ’ Cast: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard Martin Scorsese isn’t exactly known for his comedy, although his 2013 hit ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ was perhaps the most out-and-out funny film he’s made so far. This 1982 film, which followed ‘Raging Bull’, thrives on awkward laughs as Robert De Niro’s sociopathic and deluded Rupert Pupkin is so desperate to become a successful stand-up comic (despite an apparent total lack of talent) that he hatches a crazy kidnap plot involving a chat-show host played by Jerry Lewis. It’s watch-through-the-fingers stuff – amusing, yes, but also seriously uncomfortable. DC Buy, rent or watch 'The King of Comedy' 47 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) ‘I never forget a pussy... cat. ’ Cast: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York Take Sean Connery’s suave James Bond out of his ’60s-martini-bar comfort zone and you’re left with Austin Powers. He’s a flouncy-collared, womanising secret agent who was cryogenically frozen in the 1960s, then awoken in 1997 to battle cat-stroking villain Dr Evil. Written and starring Mike Myers in both the lead roles, the film’s storyline is as silly as it sounds but that’s what makes it so much fun. Shame about the sequels. KL 46 The Producers (1967) I was born in Dusseldorf and that is why they call me Rolf. ’ Director: Mel Brooks Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn The beginning of the Brooks empire, and still his funniest film, ‘The Producers’ combines old-school kvetch comedy, Broadway backstage hi-jinks and outright headline-grabbing bad taste to intoxicating effect. Wilder steals the show as the accountant to Mostel’s portly, conniving stage producer. The con itself – an elaborate plan to run with the takings of a show so dreadful it closes overnight – keeps things ticking along at a brisk pace, but it’s that Busby Berkeley ‘Springtime for Hitler’ scene that remains most vividly in the memory. DA Buy, rent or watch 'The Producers' 45 Rushmore (1998) 'Best play ever, man. ’ Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams Some films create an entire world, with its own rules and its own geography. ‘Rushmore’ is one of the greatest of these. The grounds and environs of Rushmore Academy are at once familiar and strange, populated by bored millionaires and Scottish vagabonds, lost aquatic heroes and their grieving lovers, gruff headmasters and winsome Asian teens, and of course Max Fischer, arguably the most complex, original, loveable but infuriating movie creation of the past three decades. Yes, there’s a little ‘Harold and Maude’ here, a little Hal Hartley there. But even as it approaches its third decade, ‘Rushmore’ still feels blindingly original and unique. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Rushmore' 44 Broadway Danny Rose (1984) ‘If you take my advice I think you’ll become one of the great balloon-folding acts of all time! ’ Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte Woody comes to both bury and praise his hero Danny Rose in this lyrical note to the dimmer lights of the Great White Way. A cock-eyed optimist and full-time dreamer, guileless theatrical agent Danny dotes over his woeful stable of one-shot novelty acts – blind xylophonists, uniped tap dancers, ice-skating penguins dressed, naturally, as Hassidic rabbis – but it’s clear to everyone else that an age is swiftly passing. It would be an easy world to mock, but Allen gives it a generous, mournful, affectionate send-off that pays far richer, far funnier dividends. ALD 43 The Blues Brothers (1980) ‘Boys, you got to learn not to talk to nuns that way. ’ Director: John Landis Cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd The controversy around ‘The Blues Brothers’ has been raging since its release. Is this a case of two white comedians exploiting the heroes of soul music to make themselves look cool? Or is the film actually a loving tribute to a great American art form? The truth is, a bit of both. But luckily, there’s a brilliantly paced plot, a punchy script and a riot of car chases to keep you distracted every time Belushi and Aykroyd’s mugging gets a bit much. Of course, the heart of the movie is in its musical performances: Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and James Brown all hit hard, but it’s Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ that’ll have you jiving in your seat. TH Buy, rent or watch 'The Blues Brothers' 42 His Girl Friday (1940) ‘Never mind the Chinese earthquake, take Hitler and stick him on the funny page. No, no, leave the rooster story alone – that’s human interest! ’ Director: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy Where would screen comedy be without ‘His Girl Friday’? The double-edged cynicism of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s oft-adapted Broadway play ‘The Front Page’ couldn’t be more modern. But director Howard Hawks had the inspired brainwave of turning the male Hildy into a female firebrand played by Rosalind Russell – detonating one of the most incendiary, yet affectionate, sex-war duels in cinema history. WH Buy, rent or watch 'His Girl Friday' 41 Napoleon Dynamite (2004) ‘Just follow your heart. That's what I do. ’ Director: Jared Hess Cast: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Efren Ramirez ‘Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills… like bow hunting skills, computer hacking…’ It’s safe to say that lanky Idaho high schooler Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) doesn’t really understand girls – or conversation. This social misfit makes for a terrific underdog hero, and when he decides his skill is dancing, things get really funny. Look out for a hilarious turn from Efren Ramirez as Napoleon’s best friend Pedro, a transfer student running for class president. Vote for Pedro! AS Buy, rent or watch 'Napoleon Dynamite' 40 The Pink Panther (1963) ‘Simone, where is my Surété Scotland Yard-type mackintosh? ’ Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner The first in a series of five films featuring the clumsy antics of Peter Sellers’s bungling pseudo-French detective Chief Inspector Clouseau, ‘The Pink Panther’ is also the most measured, languorous and subtle of the lot. While often very funny, Sellers’s incompetent character only came to the fore from the second film, ‘A Shot in the Dark’, onwards. Consequently, anyone seeing this expecting wall-to-wall Sellers may be a mite disappointed. But hey, it knocks spots off the awful 2006 remake. DA Buy, rent or watch 'The Pink Panther' 39 Coming to America (1988) The royal penis is clean, your highness. ’ Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones Just a few years after he became the biggest box-office draw in America, Eddie Murphy’s golden period was already drawing to a close. But this tale of African princes and fast-food heiresses is a scrappily suitable swansong for the Eddie we loved in the ’80s, offering his signature blend of crudity, sweetness, wit, style and vague politicking, all wrapped up in a high-concept romcom package. The highlight, though, has to be ‘ER’ star Eriq LaSalle in full Jheri curl nightmare as hair product salesman Daryl. Just let your Soul Glo... TH Buy, rent or watch 'Coming to America' 38 Nuts In May (1976) ‘“I want to see the zoo, ” she said. “I want to see the zoo. ”’ Director: Mike Leigh Cast: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Anthony O’Donnell Of all the films Mike Leigh made for TV in the 1970s, this comedy about two ‘green’ middle-class Londoners who pitch up at a Dorset campsite and make fools of themselves is almost as enduring as the better known ‘Abigail’s Party’. Arriving in the countryside, priggish Keith (Roger Sloman) turns up his nose at non-free-range eggs (this was 40 years ago), while his wife Candice Marie (Alison Steadman) might not be as floaty and submissive as she first appears. Squirm, and squirm some more. DC Buy, rent or watch 'Nuts in May' 37 Elf (2003) ' So, good news... I saw a dog today. ' Director: Jon Favreau Cast: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart This story of Buddy the 'elf', a human raised in the north pole by Santa and his real elves, and his journey to find his real dad is fast becoming a festive family staple. The juxtaposition between Ferrell's Buddy, a guileless simpleton who accidentally causes havoc and destruction, and his stiff-lipped and gruff businessman of a father provides genuine moments of humour and heart. Meanwhile, director Jon Favreau delivers any cornball sentiments with an adept balance of irony and sincerity. AK Buy, rent or watch 'Elf' 36 The General (1926) There were two loves in his life: his engine and…’ Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack Viewed today, the natural reaction to Buster Keaton’s civil-war masterpiece isn’t so much laughter as sheer, jaw-on-the-floor astonishment. In a world long before health and safety, here is a man literally risking life and limb to present some of the most astonishing sight gags ever performed, from ducking cannon balls to flipping railroad ties to chucking an entire, full-size locomotive off a bridge. It’s hilarious too, of course: the birth of the chase movie, and the template for everything from the Looney Tunes cartoons to ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. TH 35 National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) ‘Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps. ’ Cast: John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce National Lampoon’s 1978 effort follows a wild fraternity of party lads, playboys and misfits put at danger of being shutdown by the dean of their straight-laced university. If that plotline sounds familiar it’s probably because it’s been aped by a whole host of college movies since, from the ‘American Pie’ sequels to the recent Zac Efron film ‘Bad Neighbours’. But none of them have the same gutsy energy brought by ‘Animal House’ cast members like John Belushi. KL Buy, rent or watch 'National Lampoon's Animal House' 34 When Harry Met Sally… (1989) ‘Baby Fish Mouth is sweeping the nation. ’ Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher It’s a pity that all most people remember from Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron’s flawless New York romcom gem is that orgasm scene. Sure, it’s a great scene, and very brave for its time. But there’s so much else in the movie to love: those pitch-perfect performances (Bruno Kirby was never better as Billy Crystal’s BF), the gorgeous autumnal photography and of course Ephron’s script, a masterpiece of construction offering wisdom and wit, shock and sweetness, forever sailing this close to mawkishness but always managing to pull back from the brink. Both Ephron and Reiner sank into Hollywood slush, but they were always headed that way. And at least they left one perfect – and I do mean perfect – movie before they jumped. TH Buy, rent or watch 'When Harry Met Sally... ' 33 A Night at the Opera (1935) I saw Mrs Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first but there’s no point in bringing the Civil War into this. ’ Director: Sam Wood Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx Even funnier than the overblown Queen album of the same name, this was the Marxes at their anarchic apogee, an excoriating dissection of snot-nosed, jazz-age, high-society wags that contained some of their most memorable comic riffs. The story, in which Groucho falls in with a moneyed has-been and has to assist a struggling opera company, plays second fiddle to an intense barrage of puns, tongue-twisters and wisecracks. Chico’s on hand, too, with his unhinged cod-Italiano witterings, while Harpo’s energetic feats of slapstick repeatedly threaten to steal the show. And if you’ve ever pondered how many people can fit into the cabin of an art deco transatlantic ocean liner, then this is the movie for you. DJ Buy, rent or watch 'A Night at the Opera' 32 Shaun of the Dead (2004) ‘How’s that for a slice of fried gold? ’ Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield Previous beloved Brit comedy duos – from Eric and Ernie to Patsy and Edina – faltered making the transition from the small to the silver screen. But ‘Shaun of the Dead’ was the making of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, a surprise that catapulted them to demi-god status. This is not a film about survival: this genuinely suspenseful rom-zom-com is about respect and the getting of it. That what’s Pegg/Frost/Wright give to the living dead of Crouch End, Highgate and North Finchley in spades, with compassion, heroism and without losing their sense of humour and essential Britishness. WH Buy, rent or watch 'Shaun of the Dead' 31 ¡Three Amigos! (1986) Would you say that I had a plethora of piñatas? ’ Cast: Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short Pitched somewhere between ‘Seven Samurai’ and ‘The Artist’ (only with much bigger hats), this goofy Hollywood comedy sees three fading silent-era stars travelling to Mexico to appear at a warlord’s birthday party only to wind up leading a peasant’s revolt. It’s all deeply silly – most of the jokes come at the expense of wacky accents, donkeys and Martin Short falling over – but Alfonso Arau’s thunderous performance as the villainous El Guapo is a major treat, as is Randy Newman’s whacked-out cameo as a singing bush. TH Buy, rent or watch '¡Three Amigos! ' 30 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) ‘Hey Stan, tell them about the part where Terrence calls Phillip a testicle-shitting rectal wart. ’ Director: Trey Parker Cast: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes What’s the greatest musical of all time? ‘Singin’ in the Rain’? Too cute. ‘West Side Story’? Too butch. ‘Meet Me in St Louis’? If Judy Garland had called Margaret O’Brien a donkey-raping shit eater, it might have stood a chance. Surely, the finest example of the musical form in cinema has to be this rites-of-passage tale of life in a quiet Colorado mountain town, where all the folks need to worry about is parking provision, bad language, gay dogs, an impending land war with Canada, Satan’s fuck-buddy Saddam, whether it really was Cartman’s mother in that German scheisse video and, of course, those goddamned Baldwins. Aw, shucks. TH Buy, rent or watch 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut' 29 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) ‘Lawrence Fells. Lawrence Feings. Forest Lorenston. Low. Lars. LARS. Lawrence. Luch. Tuh. His name is James Jesenthon. Lawrence Fell. Lawrence Jesterton. LAWRENCE JESTERTON! ’ Director: Frank Oz Cast: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly ‘Scoundrels’ is the perfect description of Steve Martin and Michael Caine’s characters in this remake of 1964’s ‘Bedtime Story’. The duo play a pair of conmen who’ve been tricking the rich women of the French Riviera out of their fortunes before realising they share the same turf. Thus begins an increasingly ridiculous duel, with Caine’s buttoned-up Lawrence making the perfect foil for Martin’s goofball Freddy. Their behaviour could easily come off as mean, but by the end of the film they’ve conned you into thinking they’re loveable rogues. KL Buy, rent or watch 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' 28 Zoolander (2001) ‘Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking? ’ Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell Did someone say fish in a barrel? Okay, so the fashion world isn’t exactly a challenging subject for satire but Ben Stiller’s tale of international intrigue, haute couture and ludicrous pretension has such great gags, committed performances and cod sincerity that it’s hard not to guffaw. Stiller’s Zoolander is a supermodel on the slide, threatened by up-and-comer Owen Wilson, exploited by grasping designer Will Ferrell and constrained by his gargantuan stupidity, source of most of the big laughs. But he’s also insecure, well-meaning and basically quite sweet, which makes his story all the more amiable. BW Buy, rent or watch 'Zoolander' 27 Blazing Saddles (1974) What’s a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this? ’ Cast: Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Slim Pickens ‘My movies rise below vulgarity, ’ Mel Brooks once quipped in the salad days of his career. Exhibit A for that claim, surely, is ‘Blazing Saddles’. A satire of Hollywood’s white-centric accounts of the American West, and told from the perspective of the first black sheriff in an all-white town, the film can be wince-inducing in the politically-charged, highly racial tone of its humour. Co-written by Richard Pryor (and co-starring Gene Wilder), it remains a riot of bad taste. John Wayne was offered a cameo role, Brooks once claimed in an interview. After reading and considering the script, the iconic Cowboy declined the opportunity. The dialogue, he said was ‘too dirty’. Amen to that. TS Buy, rent or watch 'Blazing Saddles' 26 The Castle (1997) ‘Compulsorily acquired? You know what this means, don’t you… They’re acquiring it. Compulsorily. ’ Director: Rob Sitch Cast: Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry Voted Australia’s favourite homegrown film, this modest fable about ordinary folk battling the vested interests who have issued a compulsory purchase order on their property manages the rare trick of laughing with its characters while getting significant comic mileage from their deficiencies of taste, common sense and general knowledge. The Kerrigan household aren’t the sharpest tools in the box, but their affectionate family bond creates a sense of home as something you just can’t put a price on. An irresistible feelgood charmer. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'The Castle' 25 Bridesmaids (2011) 'Help me I'm poor... ' Director: Paul Feig Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, Melissa McCarthy 'Bridesmaids' is way more than just a lads comedy with the genders switched. Sure, there are some of the bad-taste trappings, but it more than outgrows them with its silly-but-smart script and the lively direction from 'Freaks and Geeks' legend Paul Feig. Even better, though, is the note-perfect casting. Kristen Wiig's performance as Annie is raucously hilarious (her impersonation of a penis is a highlight), as is Rose Byrne, whose deadpan performance as Helen is severely underrated. Mostly, though, it works because the relationships between the women feel real and honest. AK Buy, rent or watch 'Bridesmaids' 24 Play It Again, Sam (1972) 'No, my parents never got divorced. Although I begged them to. ’ Director: Herbert Ross Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts Woody Allen establishes his on-screen persona as a haplessly neurotic would-be lover in this sparkling adaptation of his 1969 Broadway play, where he’s a movie critic so obsessed by ‘Casablanca’ that he’s conjured up an imaginary Humphrey Bogart to dispense hard-boiled wisdom. Bogey’s kiss-or-kill strategies couldn’t be less appropriate, which is where the fun starts, and Diane Keaton makes a most appealing romantic foil as events head to a wittily achieved airport finale with deliciously misappropriated classic movie dialogue. TJ Buy, rent or watch 'Play It Again, Sam' 23 Tootsie (1982) ‘I have a name. It’s Dorothy. Not Tootsie or Toots or Sweetie or Honey or Doll. ’ ‘Oh, Christ! ’ ‘No, just Dorothy. ’ Director: Sidney Pollack Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Bill Murray Sure, this is Dustin Hoffman’s show – he’s the gut in a dress, after all. But it’s Bill Murray who sticks in the memory: the source of most of the film’s big laughs and a goodly portion of its soul. Looking back, the concept of a guy dressing up as a woman to get a better job is a vaguely uncomfortable one, and its approach to feminism is badly out-dated. But the performances still shine, the script still sparkles and director Sydney Pollack’s smooth ’80s style still charms. Now hang on while I fix my lippy. TH Buy, rent or watch 'Tootsie' 22 Ghostbusters (1984) ‘Don’t cross the streams! ’ Director: Ivan Reitman Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd When New York is invaded by ghastly ghouls, who you gonna call? You know the answer: four self-styled Ghostbusters ready to dash in and zap the spirits into oblivion. Much of this sci-fi-comedy’s charm lies in its have-a-go-heroes: these underdogs are thrown into the spotlight with delightful results. Bill Murray’s deadpan, womanising scientist is an undoubted highlight, while Rick Moranis brings crazy character humour as the dork living in the most haunted building in Manhattan. AS Buy, rent or watch 'Ghostbusters' 21 Young Frankenstein (1974) ‘For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius. ’ Cast: Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle Mel Brooks’s finest genre parody succeeds as a hilarious send-up because it’s also a love letter to the classic 1930s ‘Frankenstein’ movies. As the old Baron’s grandson (co-writer Gene Wilder) brings the family business back to life, Brooks milks the familiar material to the point of absurdity – notably when Wilder performs a tuxedo-ed song-and-dance duo to prove his monster (Peter Boyle) is a civilised creation. The knockabout is great fun, but knowing the originals only increases one’s appreciation. TJ 20 Four Lions (2010) ‘Rubber-dinghy rapids, bro! ’ Director: Chris Morris Cast: Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak This first (and so far only) feature from British TV and radio comedian Chris Morris dared to mock the stupidity of homegrown British jihadis in the wake of 2005’s terror attacks on London. Framed as a slapstick sitcom and built on solid satirical foundations, Morris and his co-writers based much of their script on evidence and court transcripts relating to real cases of DIY terrorism. In the years since, the film has become a regular reference point in the news as life – tragically and comically – continues to imitate art. DC Buy, rent or watch 'Four Lions' 19 Duck Soup (1933) ‘I could dance with you till the cows come home. But I’d rather dance with the cows till you come home. ’ Director: Leo McCarey Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx What to say when a film is creeping towards its first century but still feels as timely, relevant and subversive as it did on release? The Marx Brothers’s best movie, ‘Duck Soup’ takes them far out of their New York music hall milieu and into a kind of twisted miniature Mittel-Europa filtered through immigrant memory and fairytales, where war is brewing between the proud people of Freedonia and the crypto-fascists of neighbouring Sylvania. With a far lighter touch than Chaplin’s ‘Great Dictator’, the film lampoons not just fascism but patriotism and politics in general: this is satire deployed both with a sledgehammer and a scalpel, often in the same scene. TH Book, rent or watch 'Duck Soup' 18 Dr Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) ‘I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. ’ Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden It takes some kind of genius to make a comedy out of a thermonuclear holocaust – and arch pessimist and master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was that very genius. Originally intent on a serious treatment (based on Peter George’s book ‘Red Alert’), Kubrick abandoned the attempt because most of his ideas for it ‘were so ludicrous’. The black comedy that resulted – detailing the terminal implications of a mad, lone general’s decision to push the nuclear button – was arguably the director’s greatest achievement. WH Buy, rent or watch 'Dr Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' 17 Planes, Trains and Automobiles ‘Those. Aren’t. PILLOWS!!! ’ Director: John Hughes Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean So much more than just a jolly fat man, John Candy was one of those performers who seemed to have comedy right down in his bones. When he added a pinch of pathos, the results could be devastating. By far the finest in that elite subgenre of movies about stressed-out guys trying to get back to their loved ones for the holidays, ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ works not because both its frontmen (Candy is joined by Steve Martin) are effortlessly hilarious – though they are, and it’s wonderful. 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TH Buy, rent or watch 'Team America: World Police' 7 Withnail & I ‘I feel like a pig shat in my head! ’ Director: Bruce Robinson Cast: Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths The funniest parts of ‘Withnail & I’ are the early scenes, when, festering in a Camden flat resembling the inside of a cancerous lung, Withnail and Marwood stumble towards the end of an epic speed and booze bender. There are delirious flights of fancy, bouts of druggy nonsense (‘my thumbs have gone weird’), an abortive attempt to clean the kitchen and a cherishable visit from terrifying drug dealer Danny (Ralph Brown). Later, though, tragedy looms large – and Withnail’s despairing traipse through rain-sodden Regent’s Park ranks among the most heartbreaking closing scenes in all cinema. PH Buy, rent or watch 'Withnail & I' 6 The Jerk (1979) ‘A cosmetologist? Really? Wow. 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Welcome back to another edition of Film Club. This week, senior writer Katie Rife is joined by contributor Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to discuss some new releases. Earlier today, our critics took a gander at The Invisible Man. Now, they dig into Corneliu Porumboiu’s deligthful neo-noir, The Whistlers. First up, our critics take a look at writer/director Leigh Whannell’s ingenious update on The Invisible Man, starring Elisabeth Moss in top form as the central … At 16, Storm Reid has already racked up acting credits in just about every genre imaginable, but The Invisible Man marks her first role in a major studio horror movie. And though she’s never been much a scary movie fan, Reid was excited about writer/director Leigh Whannell ’s fresh take on the iconic monster and was … The title refers to a long-standing ( and highly controversial) system of determining tribal citizenship based on one’s percentage of Native blood, an in-your-face choice that lets you know that Blood Quantum is not pulling its punches (or its decapitations by samurai sword, as the case may be). Written and directed by … Netflix’s new teen romance All The Bright Places —based on Jennifer Niven’s hit YA novel of the same name—is set against the backdrop of a quiet Indiana suburb, basically Anytown, USA. Its protagonists Violet Markey (Elle Fanning) and Theodore Finch (Justice Smith) see their small town as ugly and mundane, but, as the … When writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood first began working on her screenplay for Love & Basketball, the WNBA didn’t exist. It wouldn’t be founded until 1996, just four years before Love & Basketball premiered. Before then, the best the sport’s elite female athletes could hope for was a successful college career … C- It’s hard to think of a more obvious marriage of artist and material than Wendy, Benh Zeitlin’s dull and weirdly dour new take on Peter Pan. There was a strong whiff of J. M. Barrie and his vision of unchained childhood in Zeitlin’s celebrated debut, that Oscar-nominated, Sundance-winning parade of magical realism, Beas … B The possibility that our futures hold nothing remarkable for us can seem like a nightmare. In Saint Frances, 34-year-old deadbeat Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan) is well aware she’s not exactly where she should be in life, and anxiety over the fact cripples her self-esteem. Old friends are getting married, buying houses, … C Michael Winterbottom’s Greed basically has one joke, which is, “Can you believe this rich asshole? ” The rich asshole in question is British “fast fashion” mogul Sir Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan), who made his money off the backs of sweatshop laborers but, if asked about it, would chock it up to his cut-throat … C In telling the story of ex-KKK member Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund) and his rejection of the white supremacist ideology that once defined his life, Andrew Heckler manages to avoid a few of the more obvious stumbling blocks for a drama about racism from a white writer-director. Burden has to take the first step of … B+ In the opening scene of Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers, a middle-aged Romanian cop arrives in the Canary Islands to the mocking strains of Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger. ” It’s not official police business that has brought him here. In trying to supplement his meager 1, 000 euro monthly salary, the stolid Bucharest … The Academy may not formally recognize the nerve-rattling work of stunt coordinators and performers with an awards category of their own, but its hard to overstate what these craftspeople bring to the table, especially in an Oscars favorite like Ford V Ferrari. During the film’s recent victory lap press tour in Los … A- Midway through A White, White Day, which was Iceland’s Oscar submission last year (it wasn’t nominated), a man driving along a seaside road runs over a large rock. This doesn’t damage his four-wheel drive vehicle, but he nonetheless pulls over, gets out, and examines the thing—it’s roughly the size of his head. Then … Autumn de Wilde’s new take on Jane Austen’s Emma seems intent on disproving the stereotype that all period pieces are “stiff” or “stuffy. ” From its eye-popping haute couture to its punctuated title, Emma. lets you know immediately that its not like the other costume dramas. During the film’s U. S. press junket, we … B+ The Invisible Man has always been something of an outlier among the storied Universal Monsters. Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man are all essentially former men whose glimmers of humanity are subsumed in their dramatic transformations. The Invisible Man’s origins, by contrast, are more akin to a … The condemned: Snatchers (2019) B- Just about every Pixar movie transports audiences to a shiny new world of wonder: the depths of the ocean, the deepest reaches of space, the inside of the human brain. But the key to the studio’s enduring popularity may be the way it tethers those meticulously crafted backdrops to stories of relatable emotion and … C+ Brahms, the murderous doll with the angelic porcelain face, is not yet a horror icon on par with Freddy, Jason, or even that indecorous Annabelle. But Brahms: The Boy II makes a half-valiant, half-misguided attempt to continue the legacy of The Boy, a minor hit from four years ago, which involves addressing (or, for ….
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