best comedy movie

[suraj]

Have you seen scary movie? I mean, not horror, the name of that movie is scary movie. If you don't, then you must because it is not really scary. Me and my friends planned to stay whole night awake just watching horror movies. Then I went to market and brought a movie named scary movie. I thought it was too scary and brought it home. When we started to watch it from first to last, we were laughing and laughing and more laughing. It was a comedy film not a horror but just the name was scary. We laughed whole night and watched all its four parts.

 

[knowledge_of_self]

Hey suraj:

Welcome to the forum! It's customary for newbies to post a little intro about themselves in the Newbies section. You don't need to share anything too personal, just a brief introduction and how you found your way here. You can take a look at other intros to get a feel of it :)

 

[melatonin]

Scarey movie 1 was very funny imo!

My favourite comedies are Bowfinger (steve martin, eddie murphy), Analyse this (robert de niro) and best of all the 'king of queens' series.

 

[Noumena]

I`ve watched a great comedy movie in my opinion last night. It`s based on comic book. The name of the movie is Scott Pilgrim vs the World. It`s pretty well made. The scenes, editing, efects. On visual side is very original. Some parts reminds me of Tarantinos humor...from the fun side of course:P For more reviews or opinions try visit IMDB site:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446029/

The thing whats separate this comedy from others is that this movie is realy surrealistic:D Try find this movie and watch it:D It`s nice funny journey and have IMO inteligent dialogs if we compare this to other Comedy movies about weed, stupid jokes etc. So have good fun.


Martin

 

[Beau]

For my money, their is no better comedy than Young Frankenstein. The scene with Peter Boyle and Gene Hackman alone is pure gold and an all time classic IMO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2IIU0a9qw

 

[knowledge_of_self]

I was thinking of making a thread where everyone can name their top 5 favorite comedy movies of all time. Since this thread is about comedy movies, I figured I'd just stick it here instead.

Sometimes this world can get pretty bleak and it's good to refresh our minds with a good ol' laugh out loud comedy flick.

So here are my top 5

1) Coming to America
2)Throw mama from the train
3)Dumb & Dumber
4)Some Like it Hot
5)Beverly Hills Cop

I'm sure I have more, but that's all I can think of right now for my top 5 :P

 

[alphonse]

For my money, their is no better comedy than Young Frankenstein. The scene with Peter Boyle and Gene Hackman alone is pure gold and an all time classic IMO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2IIU0a9qw

Warewolf? There. There wolf! Timeless work of genius.

For me though Monty Python's "Life of Brian" wins by a country mile..

 

[SolarMother]

Let's not forget 'I Heart Huckabees' !!! I have just recently watched this movie for the 6th time (came out in '04--there is so much going on, ya have to see it at least twice, and its excellent laughing medicine-- IMO its brilliant.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kB_mOfvDPU



Plot/Spoiler?
Albert Markovski (Schwartzman) is a young man who heads the local chapter of an environmental group, the "Open Spaces Coalition." One of their current projects is an attempt to stop the building of a new Huckabees store, a chain of "big-box" department stores akin to Wal-Mart or Target (Mike Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, Wal-Mart's home state, at the time of the film's release). Albert is a rival of Brad Stand (Law), a shallow power executive at Huckabees. Brad infiltrates Open Spaces and charismatically displaces Albert as the leader. Dawn Campbell (Watts) is Brad's live-in girlfriend and the face and voice of Huckabees; she appears in all of the store's commercials.

After seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times, Albert contacts two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Hoffman and Tomlin). The detectives offer Albert their optimistic brand of existentialism—they name it universal interconnectivity (this has some tenets of romantic or even transcendentalist philosophies)—and spy on him, ostensibly to help him solve the coincidence. Bernard and Vivian introduce Albert to Tommy Corn (Wahlberg), an obsessively anti-petroleum firefighter. Tommy is assigned to Albert as his Other.

Tommy grows dissatisfied with the Jaffes, feeling that they are not helping him. Seeking out other possibilities, Tommy ends up abandoning and undermining the Jaffes by introducing Albert to Caterine Vauban (Huppert), a former student of the Jaffes who espouses a seemingly opposing nihilistic/absurdist philosophy. She teaches them to disconnect their inner beings from their daily lives and their problems, to synthesize a non-thinking state of "pure being." Being lifted from their troubles, they wish to keep that feeling forever, yet she tells them that it is inevitable to be drawn back to the human drama, and to understand that the core truth of that drama is misery and meaninglessness. Feeling somewhat upset after realizing this, Caterine and Albert leave Tommy to go and have sex in the woods. Tommy finds out about the two of them being together and feels hurt, Caterine tells him that they found each other through all the of the human suffering and drama, Tommy rejects this idea and leaves them furious and lost.

Meanwhile, in Brad's further attempts to undercut Albert, he and Dawn also meet and are influenced by Bernard and Vivian. However, his plan backfires when the detectives probe Dawn and him, causing Dawn to reject her superficial iconic status as a beautiful model and him to realize that his whole ascent in the corporate ladder is meaningless, as he has lived his whole life just trying to please others and not himself.

All the storylines collide when Brad's house is on fire. Tommy comes to put the fire out which has incidentally trapped Dawn inside, and in the process of saving her, the two fall in love. Meanwhile, Brad despairs at the destruction of his house, the symbol of his material success. Albert attains a sort of enlightenment when he synthesizes the two opposing outlooks of the Jaffes and Vauban to realize the cosmic truth of everything. By way of sympathy for Brad, who is now just as dejected and hopeless as Albert was at the beginning of the movie, Albert understands that he and Brad are no different, that everything really is inextricably connected, but that these connections necessarily arise from the often senselessly painful reality of human existence. Having realized this, he turns Brad toward Caterine, in hopes that she will help him as she did to Albert and Tommy. They speak later about everything that has happened to them and Tommy forgives Albert for abandoning him. As the two think, Caterine and the Jaffes watch them, concluding that they can close both of their cases.

 

[melatonin]

I forgot to mention 'Employee of the month' in my top 5 comedies.

 

[Mountain Crown]

When I tried to nail it down to five I kept remembering more, so I gave up and decided to post these favorites:

Dumb and Dumber
Airplane
Anchorman
Liar Liar
The Meaning of Life
Naked Gun
Pink Panther
Back to School
Elf
Bruce Almighty

Some favorite moments:

" Just when I think you couldn't be any dumber, you do something like this. You're a genius!" (paraphrased) - Dumb and Dumber

" I'm kicking my ass, do you mind?" - Liar Liar

"I thought you said your dog doesn't bite?"
"That, Monsieur, is not my dog." - Pink Panther

Rodney Dangerfield high diving the "triple Lindy" - Back to School

Will Ferrell getting the crap beaten out of him by a midget. - Elf

"Every sperm is Sacred" - Catholic song and dance routine from The Meaning of Life

Steve Carrell being manipulated on air by Jim Carrey - Bruce Almighty

Edit: Had to add another one!

 

[The rabbit]

For my money, their is no better comedy than Young Frankenstein. The scene with Peter Boyle and Gene Hackman alone is pure gold and an all time classic IMO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2IIU0a9qw

With you on this. One of my faves of all time. I saw this when it first came out at the cinema. A sedagive?

 

[StrangeCaptain]

I am glad to see this topic because if I need some laugh medecine then I can try to find one of the titles on this thread that I have never seen before.

For me, in no particular order:

- A Night at The Opera (Marx Brothers)

- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Jim Carrey)

- Dumb and Dumber (Jim Carrey)

- Hot Fuzz (Warning: there is some graphic gore in this one. It is a spoof of action/cop films with some violent murder scenes)

- Zoolander

It should be clear from my choices that I don't have a particularly sophisticated sense of humor, but I am okay with that :P

 

[chachazoom]

The Pink Panther always cracks me up (with Steve Martin)

 

[truth seeker]

Well this is sort of a comedy - Groundhog Day. My fav movie of all time.

 

[Nawd]

"The Man Who Knew Too Little."

Still makes me laugh! Also "What About Bob?" Was great. Bill Murray has been pretty funny in most of his movies.

Also as a comedy series, "The Simpsons."

As a stand up comedian, George Carlin!