Last good comedy??

bemak

Maybe it's me but it seems like years since there was a decent comedy out? Superbad was probably the last that comes to mind for me. When you think of the likes of the Naked Guns, Police Academies, etc etc, there doesn't seem to be anything coming out lately that comes anyway close?

Gamb!t

bemak wrote: »

Maybe it's me but it seems like years since there was a decent comedy out? Superbad was probably the last that comes to mind for me. When you think of the likes of the Naked Guns, Police Academies, etc etc, there doesn't seem to be anything coming out lately that comes anyway close?

Wedding Crashers is pretty funny.

Heisenberg1

I liked Hall Pass and Horrible bosses are both good comedy's.

jacksie66

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johnny_ultimate

Get Out is just out, not necessarily laugh a minute material but a sharp and pleasingly cheeky satire with a couple o' very witty and ridiculous comic moments.

Toni Erdmann may still be knocking around cinemas, and it is ****ing hilarious (although also happens to be a reasonably slow-paced 2.5 hour long German film, so erm not for everyone). One sequence towards the end in particular is the hardest I've laughed in a cinema for a year or two. Since Hail Ceaser's 'would that it were so simple' scene anyway...

Love & Friendship is on Netflix now, impeccably witty film with one of the great comic performances of recent years from Tom Bennett.

The Love Witch is also coming out shortly, deeply eccentric film but very, very funny at times.

Liam McPoyle

I thoroughly enjoyed "Vacation" (recent National Lampoons reboot)

It was on one night and myself and my wife watched it. Some genuinely hilarious moments in it that made us both laugh out loud on a number of occasions.

Completely took me by surprise as I was expecting nothing from it.

Neames

Get Hard with Will Ferrell is very funny. Just happened upon it, hadn't read any reviews, so pleasantly surprised.

stampydmonkey

Few years ago but thought the other guys and 21 jump street were brilliant...

Gamb!t

Forgot about Step brothers also.

Outlaw Pete

Recent enough films that made me laugh, hhmmm.

Due Date, Ted!, We're The Millers, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Optimalprimerib

The nice guys had me in stitches. As did young offenders.

bemak

Nice guys is great alright and grand Budapest.

Frank O. Pinion

Hail, Caesar!
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Swiss Army Man
The Greasy Strangler
The Love Witch

All from 2016. All hilarious.

Lurching

What about Deadpool?

Comedy is subjective. Few people have mentioned movies I thought were awful, some I thought was excellent.

bemak

Deleted User wrote: »

Comedy is subjective. Few people have mentioned movies I thought were awful, some I thought was excellent.

ya true. I completely forgot about some of the movies that people have mentioned so maybe I was a bit hasty in putting up the thread. Still no harm to get comedy recommendations!

kunst nugget

Popstar: Never Stop Stopping (Equal Rights! Not Gay!)
What We Do in the Shadows
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Deadpool
Housebound

All great comedies worth checking out.

Echoes675

jacksie66 wrote: »

Pineapple Express
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the dead
Superbad
Loads of hilarious comedies..

Pineapple Express - 2008
Hot Fuzz - 2007
Shaun of the dead - 2004
Superbad - 2007

Not really a recent selection there.

TerrorFirmer

I was only talking about this the other day - I miss the days of going to see a film in the cinema that would leave you in stitches. There are still some decent comedies coming out - I think the last great one for me was 'The Nice Guys' - but I miss those genuine side splitters.

Neighbors and Neighbors 2 were two very decent recent comedies. Got a fair few laughs from both.

Mickeroo

I think it gets written off a lot because of the Melissa McCarthy factor (understandable really) but Spy is very funny imo, worth watching for Jason Statham alone.

fluke

They Came Together is brilliant

TerrorFirmer

Mickeroo wrote: »

I think it gets written off a lot because of the Melissa McCarthy factor (understandable really) but Spy is very funny imo, worth watching for Jason Statham alone.

Actually, that was a very good film - slow to start but once it gets going it is very funny. The end scene with Jason Statham actually did have me in stitches.

'The Heat' is another good one.

Whatsisname

"The Night Before", Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Anthony Mackie. Stumbled upon it recently and it's up there with one of my favourite comedies.

Disposable1

Remember when we were guaranteed one tent pole comedy a year? Good times

murpho999

Am I alone in not finding Will Ferrell (apart from Elf) and Seth Rogen (with a few exceptions) as not being very funny and very formulaic?

Frank O. Pinion

murpho999 wrote: »

Am I alone in not finding Will Ferrell (apart from Elf)

Have you watched A Deadly Adoption (2015)? A masterpiece of comedy.

murpho999

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

Have you watched A Deadly Adoption (2015)? A masterpiece of comedy.

OK, but it's supposed to be a drama? Not good if it became a comedy in your eyes.

20% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Frank O. Pinion

murpho999 wrote: »

OK, but it's supposed to be a drama? Not good if it became a comedy in your eyes.

20% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

It's a parody/satire of Lifetime movies, played like a dramatic-thriller, but it's all comedy. The mainstream audience in America, generally, didn't "get" it.

The Golden Miller

Ye I'd have to agree with the OP, Superbad was the last really top quality comedy

conorhal

comedy seems to have gotten a lot more hit and miss (mostly miss) lately. It seems to me that there just isn't a generation of filmmakers there who are 'comedy focused'. I have a hard time thinking of many directors working today about whom you'd think, oh X has a new comedy out, I must go see that.

I really enjoyed Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Taika Waititi's last film What We do in the Shadows had a touch of Christopher Guest mockumentary which Wilderpeople (though not a mocumentary) shares. Shadows was entertaining, but slight and a touch underdeveloped in the plot department. Wilderpeople brings a more Wes Anderson sensibility to that quirky New Zealand sense of humor and delivers in spades.

bemak

conorhal wrote: »

I really enjoyed Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Taika Waititi's last film What We do in the Shadows had a touch of Christopher Guest mockumentary which Wilderpeople (though not a mocumentary) shares. Shadows was entertaining, but slight and a touch underdeveloped in the plot department. Wilderpeople brings a more Wes Anderson sensibility to that quirky New Zealand sense of humor and delivers in spades.

Forgot about this film. I loved it! I had forgotten about In Bruges and Grand Budapest Hotel as well which I thought were really good. These would be more along the lines of my type of comedies!

siblers

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

Have you watched A Deadly Adoption (2015)? A masterpiece of comedy.

I think that might be the worst movie poster of all time

mdwexford

Daddy's Home with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg is hilarious.

Get Hard was also funny even though I don't really like Kevn Hart.

Haven't seen anything more recent than those that I enjoyed a lot though.

Frank O. Pinion

siblers wrote: »

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

Have you watched A Deadly Adoption (2015)? A masterpiece of comedy.

I think that might be the worst movie poster of all time

That's the point.

Boom_Bap

What We Do In The Shadows is the best comedy in recent years.

This Is The End is also great.

There have been loads that have excellent bits and pieces, but not end to end.
The Ted movies get an honourable mention.

realdanbreen

mdwexford wrote: »

Daddy's Home with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg is hilarious.

Get Hard was also funny even though I don't really like Kevn Hart.

Haven't seen anything more recent than those that I enjoyed a lot though.

I thought you would be more of a Mrs Browns boys or Al Porter fan MD, you know, nothing too complicated or deep.:D

brevity

Boom_Bap wrote: »

What We Do In The Shadows is the best comedy in recent years.

This Is The End is also great.

Both very good movies.

This is the End was hilarious in places but i think it caught me at the right mood. I could see people hating it if it caught them at the wrong time.

I mentioned it in the Netflix thread but Nice Guys is a must see movie if you are looking for a good comedy.

Too Tough To Die

Keanu is the most recent comedy that i recall enjoying. It's a 2016 release.

kunst nugget

brevity wrote: »

I mentioned it in the Netflix thread but Nice Guys is a must see movie if you are looking for a good comedy.

I find Ryan Gosling's comic turns in it pretty painful to watch in it.

jcsoulinger

I think It was alot easier make me laugh years ago and If I was to see an old favourite like say Dumb and Dumber now for the first time I'm not sure I would love it as much.

I'm not sure its that comedy is any worse it's probably better tbh given the wider variety of films to watch now, It's more that as we get older we become more dead inside.jk

Boom_Bap

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Keanu is the most recent comedy that i recall enjoying. It's a 2016 release.

Completely forgot about that, it caught me off-guard on how good it was. So add that to the list!

brevity wrote: »

I mentioned it in the Netflix thread but Nice Guys is a must see movie if you are looking for a good comedy.

I've had this on my 'to watch' list for ages now, must get around to it. There were 1 or 2 comedies added to it recently as well, I'll check what they are when I get home.

brevity

kunst nugget wrote: »

I find Ryan Gosling's comic turns in it pretty painful to watch in it.

He was good in it i thought. Some of it fell flat but there was some good slapstick and him and Crowe worked well together.

kunst nugget

brevity wrote: »

He was good in it i thought. Some of it fell flat but there was some good slapstick and him and Crowe worked well together.

Crowe and Gosling worked really well together for the most part but the slapstick was terrible imo. Really took the edge off the movie for me which was a pity.

jcsoulinger

kunst nugget wrote: »

Crowe and Gosling worked really well together for the most part but the slapstick was terrible imo. Really took the edge off the movie for me which was a pity.

That was entirely the point of the "slapstick" , It would be a totally different movie without it and no where near as enjoyable.

kunst nugget

jcsoulinger wrote: »

That was entirely the point of the "slapstick" , It would be a totally different movie without it and no where near as enjoyable.

So the slapstick was terrible on purpose?

jcsoulinger

kunst nugget wrote: »

So the slapstick was terrible on purpose?

So good slapstick if there is such a thing, would not have taken the edge off the movie?

kunst nugget

jcsoulinger wrote: »

So good slapstick if there is such a thing, would not have taken the edge off the movie?

Of course there's such a thing as good slapstick, Ryan Gosling was just awful at it. The part where

he found the body at the bottom of the ditch after falling out of the house

was so bad it kind of put me off the rest of the film. The rapport between Crowe and Gosling during most of the film was good though but as a comedy it didn't really make me laugh all that much.

Probably the only movie that really had me in tears of laughing recently was the Ceberal Palsy stage in Wolf of Wall Street.

AndyBoBandy

This is the End
We're the Millers
Central Intelligence (the rock should ONLY do comedies)

tinpib

MacGruber.

Although it's a out a few years now. Brought me back to the days of Dumb and Dumber, There is something about Mary, Airplane and all the classics mentioned.

Comedies have been rubbish in recent years, there is probably a PhD in it for someone to explain why. But MacGruber just nails it for me.

Also read that the makers of it are delighted with it. Apparently they got the money and were not micromanaged, they got to do exactly what they wanted and didn't have to"tone down" any of it to get a PG rating or to "appeal" to an imaginary audience.

jcsoulinger

kunst nugget wrote: »

Of course there's such a thing as good slapstick, Ryan Gosling was just awful at it. The part where

he found the body at the bottom of the ditch after falling out of the house

was so bad it kind of put me off the rest of the film. The rapport between Crowe and Gosling during most of the film was good though but as a comedy it didn't really make me laugh all that much.

Probably the only movie that really had me in tears of laughing recently was the Ceberal Palsy stage in Wolf of Wall Street.

Thats all fair enough, I thought your original post was suggesting that the film would be better off without the slapstick elements, but it's your perceived quality of the slapstick that's the issue, and that is so subjective we would probably be here for a few days.

Boom_Bap

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

This is the End
We're the Millers
Central Intelligence (the rock should ONLY do comedies)

Looking forward to Baywatch, it looks very comedyish. Plus that other hunk Zac Efron is in it and I think he has been brilliant in a few recent comedies...the Bad Neighbours one and the one where Bobby De Niro is his grandfather. Actually, that is a great comedy actually, after googling it's called Dirty Grandpa.

C.I. was fun