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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. 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. As the two of them try to solve the case to clear their name, they get into predictably wacky, terrible situations. Short, sharp and delightful. Proof that transferring a great sitcom to the big screen need not be difficult, difficult, lemon difficult. Did someone say fish in a barrel?

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.

Lists for every cinephile and "movie guy" on your trivia team. Such is the life of Virgil Starkwell, the remarkably committed and useless criminal who, as a kid. Déjà vu!

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’.

Joe Pesci‘s rabid chihuahua Tommy may grab most of the comic lines, including the infamous ‘funny how?’ speech.

There are so many one-liners in this Coen Brothers comedy that you could easily credit the film’s success to its pithy dialogue alone, but with a supporting cast including Walter John and Julianne Moore, it brings so much more to the table, including life lessons about friendship and heroism. Their cooler, sexier, harder-partying classmates are likewise heading to elite universities. 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. Déjà vu!
Isn’t there a bit too much death and holocaust talk for that? 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’. Try another? Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon!© 2020 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. Jim’s Mask is a grotesque green-faced schmooze-ball with a passion for farting, cheesy chat-up lines and Cameron Diaz.

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. 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.

Allen is Alvy Singer, who’s just split from scatty singer Annie (Diane Keaton, his real-life ex). ‘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. TH Neil Innes’s music and Gilliam’s animations are touchstones for British absurdist humour, while the late Graham Chapman, playing it straight as King Arthur, was never finer. A neat little twist on the holiday rom-com, this feels like the movie we need this winter season.

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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. 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. 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. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

Viewed today, the natural reaction to Buster Keaton’s civil-war masterpiece isn’t so much laughter as sheer, jaw-on-the-floor astonishment. Therein, of course, lies its genius: it’s not anything, except real.

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. But although everyone is ultimately in the shadow of the glistening chestnut bombast of Ron’s towering hair, ‘Anchorman’ is very much an ensemble effort, and everyone brings their A-game to the bullpen.

It takes a lot of front to keep a straight face while winding up gullible members of the public, but Sacha Baron Cohen is a master – as proven by this wince-inducing odyssey across America.

This content is imported from YouTube. None more funny. Shame about the sequels. 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.
With its Bergman-ribbing credit sequence, its one-liners and its extravagantly gruesome violence, ‘Holy Grail’ was Python’s launchpad to international stardom. It’s been more than 20 years since Bill Murray starred as the cynical weatherman trapped in a time loop in the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania – reliving the same day over and over again. Laurel and Hardy’s frontier tale is their most varied featurette, and ranks with their very best.