COMEDIES
Flicks that A: Make me laugh or B: Try to make me laugh.
40
Days and 40 Nights Once you ignore the silly premise (only in Josh
"Squinty-eyed" Hartnett's dreams would he have trouble preventing women
from sleeping with him) this movie is pretty funny. I thought girl from
Night's tale was a bit of a drama queen ("You didn't reveal all your inner most
secrets in the first two dates? I can never forgive you!"). She irritated my
more than the silly premise. **
Anger Management Adam Sandler actually plays the strait man sorta which is totally cool. The ending kind of made no sense (in a "yeah right" way not a "huh?" way) but yeah it was a stupid good movie. ***
Austin Powers Goldmember As hillarious as
the first two! Lots of funny surprises. Mike Myers rules! I love this movie.
*****
Bowling for Columbine
Before seeing this I was all like "A documentary? Sounds boring. ZZZzzzZzZZz."
But it's actually pretty funny (er, I mean thought provoking). Lots of stupid
Americans (yes, I know there are smart Americans out there but they weren't well
represented in this film) so I laughed. ***
Bringing Down
the House I like Steve Martin and Queen Latifah. They're funny.
Hence this movie was funny. Eugene Levy was also in it and he's funny too.
***
Bruce Almighty
This movie is hillarious. Of course Jim Carrey has to learn some schmarmy marmy
life lessons while he's doing God's job but it's only a minor pause in the
hillarity.****
The Crew
This was a fun movie that I watched on tv in the middle of the afternoon. It's
about a bunch of retired mob wise guys who live in Miami. It loses lots of
points for giant plot holes and gains them back again for making me laugh. **
DADDY DAY CARE Yeah this was funny, but not a must see or anything. I liked the guy who made all the star trek references. He made the movie for this Trekker. **
DUMB AND DUMBERER: WHEN HARRY MET LLOYD The guy who plays Jim Carey's character is just sooo Jim Carey it's like they time warped into the past and got Jim Carey as a teen and brought him to the present to do this flick. The other guy was good in it too. A lot of the jokes from the first one (or second one or whatever) are reused here. Still, funny stuff. ***
Eight-legged Freaks Wasn't completely
stupid. This movie kind of reminded me of Independence Day, not because it
was anything like it, but because both movies have a similar humour and
impossible-to-be-real events. Also both flicks are a nod to circa 50s-60s sci fi movies. Which is a good thing to nod to. Unfortunately this was the
third movie of three at the drive-in so I fell asleep. What I saw was pretty
funny but I'm not itching to see it again so I can catch the ending or anything.
**
Haiku
Tunnel This is a funny weird movie
about temp at a law firm who goes perm. Very amusing. ***
The Hot Chick This girl turns into Rob
Schneider with hilarious results. Just like Shallow Hal the movie was trying to
teach a "valuable lesson" but was way too silly to do that. If you're in the mood
for a so stupid it's good movie I recommend this one. ***
How to Lose a Guy in 10
Days My sister said this was so funny she almost peeed herself.
So I saw it. Either Matthew McConaughey has been type cast as a stupid
dork or he actually is one, I haven't decided. Some parts gave me a half
smile but at no point in the movie did I feel like urinating with laughter. *
I Spy Not the funniest spy spoof in
the universe but still fairly amusing. Owen Wilson still has a crooked
nose and Eddie Murphy is annoying so what can one expect? The girl who
played a bond girl one time and the metamorph in the TNG episode with the
metamorph was in it. Not bad. ***
Johnny English If you like Mr Bean (like me) you'll probably like this too. Not all the parts were funny but not all the funny parts were in the preview. Good Job guys. ****
Kate & Leopold You kind of
have to like sappy romantic comedies, which I do, on occasion. There's some
in continuity that wouldn't bother most people who like sappy romantic comedies.
(Kate shouldn't be in those pictures, think about it!) I still enjoyed it. Hugh
Jackman is a cutie. Great chemistry between Hugh and Meg. ***
The Last Man This is a pretty funny movie
about guy who literally is the last man on Earth. The last woman on Earth (Seven
of Nine) tolerates the not-so-attractive last man until she finds out that he's
only the second last man on Earth, and the other guy's way cuter. ***
LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED, WHITE & BLONDE If you like the first one, this is the same sorta deal. **
Men in Black II Not as
good as the first one but what sequel is? (except Wrath of Khan, Terminator 2,
My Girl 2, The Empire Strikes Back and the Spy who Shagged Me). I lost my point.
Anyway Wil Smith tries to get post-office clerk Tommy Lee Jones' memories back
after an underwear model with tentacles takes over MIB headquarters. Lots of
funny new aliens and funny old aliens but the joke got old. **
Men
With Brooms The lady sitting
behind me thought this movie was the most hilarious movie in the history of
cinema. She laughed at every joke no matter how lame. I might have
enjoyed the movie better if I weren't sitting in front of a hyena. The movie was
quite funny. It's about curling and love. I don't recommend it if you're not
Canadian. Since I am Canadian, I give movies with herds of beavers extra
points. ***
Mr. Deeds This movie was
too cliché and predictable to be totally hilarious. Did you know that it's a
remake? Anyway I didn't really believe the romance between Winona and Adam but
the Spanish butler was quite amusing. *
My Big Fat
Greek Wedding This is a super funny movie about this woman who's Greek and
this man who's not falling in love. The Greek family is loud and crazy just like
mine. ****
The New Guy
I didn't really want to see this movie but it was playing at the
drive-in with Spiderman. This nerd who got his penis broken in front of the
whole school ends up in jail and gets an inmate tell him how to be cool. He gets
expelled on purpose so he can start fresh at a new school where he meets one of
the girls from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. A few laughs but really just a
really stupid movie. **
Royal Tennenbaums This
movie is a black comedy I guess. Star-studded. The family is ten times weirder
than they seem in the previews which makes it kind of good. Owen Wilson
still looks like his nose is broken. Why don't these stars fix their faces? They
have the money. Anyway everyone was pretty good in this movie,
particularly Gene Hackman who's good at playing a sleazeball. Also I quite
enjoyed this bit character named Dudley, a dyslexic, colorblind kid with amnesia
and an acute sense of hearing. ***
The Santa Clause 2 Santa has to get
married by X-mas Eve or he turns back into Tim Allen! If you liked the
original you'll probably like SC2. It's funny and X-masy and everything. The kid
from The Kid (mini Bruce Willis) is in it as an elf. Worf is in it for
like a minute (only he's been surgically altered to appear human), he plays the
sandman. Love the Molanator! ***
Scooby
Doo A fabulous live-action version of a fabulous cartoon. ***
Showtime This is a funny movie. Robert
DeNiro should always do comedies. Eddie Murphy's cool too. I thought some of the
funniest bits were with William Shatner. Bill was showing Ed and Robbie how to
be like T.J. Hooker. Shatner wasn't in it nearly enough though. ***
The Tuxedo Jackie Chan at his finest.
You're hilarious JC. But here's a tip: maybe you shouldn't make attack mode the
default setting on your tux. Then you wouldn't accidentally beat so many
people up. Jennifer Love Hewitt didn't do to bad in this movie either. ***
Van
Wilder This movie could have been funnier. It had the funniness and
cheesiness of your average teen movie but not the over the top ridiculousness I
expect from National Lampoon. Plus it had that stupid girl from American
Pie in it. She is so boring. I like Van's assistant Taj he is the
funniest. *