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1y ago

What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?

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Hot Fuzz. One of the best movies of all time.
- I don't feel like Hot Fuzz is uncommon.
- No luck catching them swans then?
  
  It's just the one swan, actually
- Uncommon?
  
  Relatively, i would say. Otherwise, see my other comment below.
- Such a good one!
- There's a hedgehog in the garden. BUT IT'S NOT THEIR ONE!

Tucker and Dale vs Evil
- Alan Tudyk is one of my favorite actors who I feel gets too little credit. He's hilarious and it seems he's always in some funny/weird role in live action but has a surprising list of credits when it comes to animated and especially Disney animated movies. Pretty sure he's been in almost every Disney animated movie of the last 15 years.
  I love Tucker and Dale vs Evil
- I wonder how many people passed this up just because of the title and/or the cover picture
  Definitely one of the most original comedy films ever
- "He just jumped into that wood chipper! Who does something like that?!"

Idiocracy is the funniest comedy I've ever seen, but its becoming like a documentary of our time now.. And that wasn't intended I think.
- I fell asleep the first time I watched it. Worked at my corporation for a year and my friend made me rewatch it. Fucking love it now. I also put it's got electrolytes in a lot of power points.
  
  Welcome to Costco, I love you
- No, it is not "a documentary", and anyone who says that got the wrong message from the film. It is hilarious, though.
  
  Can you expand your point?

Is Kung Fury uncommon enough? Most people I talk to irl never heard of it
- Hackerman, he's the greatest hacker of all time
- Kung Fury!!!

Inspired by another answer in this thread, Kung Fu Hustle. It's also a pretty good Kung Fu movie, similar to how Shawn of the Dead manages to be both a comedy and a pretty good zombie movie.
- You've got red on you.

Clue. One of Tim Curry's finest performances. Madeline Kahn's, too.
- One of Tim Curry's finest performances
  That's like saying one of the Beatles best songs. He is outstanding in everything, so all of his performances are one of his best.
  
  Oscar is also excellent. Dr. Poole is one of his best characters.

Big Trouble in Little China
Nothing but Trouble

What We Do in the Shadows (the movie, not the series). For something more obscure, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn. Yes, both feature Jemaine Clement
- The film is considerably better than the show.
  That really did go down hill after they replaced all the Kiwi writers with Americans. It basically lost its heart after the first season, you can tell when things start winning American TV awards.

Mystery Men!
- The TERRIBLY mysterious Sphinx. The Shoveller, who shovels VERY well. You can't go wrong with Mystery Men, absolutely rewatching this asap!
  
  Also Tom Waits!
  
  You threw a spoon at the guy Jeff!
- "I'm the Blue Rajah! Not knifey boy!"
  "I shovel better than anyone!"
  "When you're invisible, you can feel it!"
  Edit'?: "I was saving these for you wedding but... That seems... Well..."

Death to Smoochy is criminally underrated. Robin Williams and Ed Norton are so good in it.
- Yes, I had to scroll way too long for this! One of my absolute favourites.
- "Sir! Are you ok?" "I'm kinda fucked up in general, so it's hard to judge"
  One of my favorite movie lines ever

Top Secret! (1984), a WW2 parody featuring Val Kilmer. From the same guys who made Airplane!.

If everyone hasn't watched Hot Tub Time Machine, everyone should watch Hot Tub Time Machine.
- One of my all time faves!!
  “Great White Buffalo!“
  
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- Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is way better and super underrated.
  
  I still sing that song from the second one. "You're a fucking nerd and no one likes you."

Is it fair to say that Mel Brooks movies are uncommon now? Have they gotten old enough that people today are generally ignorant of them? If so, "Blazing Saddles", "History of the World: Part 1", "Young Frankenstein", and "Spaceballs" are incredibly worthy of a watch.
- No mention for Robin Hood: Men In Tights?
  
  My bad! Another classic. Mel Brooks just does not miss.

Very uncommon. Arguably one of the most disturbing comedy's ever made.
Meet the Feebles is a 1989 musical comedy produced and directed by The Lord of the Rings mastermind Peter Jackson. The film is set behind the scenes at a Muppet Show-like theatrical company, and it nods to The Muppet Movie with its story about raggedy puppet entertainers dreaming of making it big. Except in Meet the Feebles, most of the puppets are diseased, drug-addicted, and / or sexually perverse. Jackson, his partner Fran Walsh, and fellow New Zealand weirdos Danny Mulheron and Stephen Sinclair collaborated on a screenplay that weaves together about half a dozen subplots; the most prominent involves the talented hippopotamus Heidi, whose lover (and the troupe’s impresario) Bletch is cruelly dismissive and adulterous. As the Feebles prepare for the show that could be their big break, their personal problems start to spill over onstage.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/24/17778026/happytime-murders-peter-jackson-meet-the-feebles-perverted-puppets-streaming-recommendation
- Yes! Truly a unique movie. The paparazzo fly eating literal shit will stick with me for the rest of my life!
- Absolutely love this fever dream of a movie

'My cousin Vinny' seems relatively uncommon, and is a beautiful courtroom comedy drama.
- Great film but not uncommon. She won the Oscar for her performance.
- Uncommon to the young folks. Pretty much everyone over the age of 35 has seen my cousin Vinny. It was also super popular and well known and is still definitely a great movie.
- Amazing all around
  Cast, writing, and a lot of memorable scenes

Swiss Army Man!
- Farting happy potter raft will never not be incredible.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Just watched this for the first time the other day! Great one!
- Just re-watched this on a plane recently and I forgot how hilarious it is! I had to try so hard to not wake everyone else in the plane

I feel like "The Man Who Knew Too Little" is pretty uncommon even though it's a Bill Murray movie. One of my favourite comedies of all time!
- Thats a great one, saw it again a few years ago and it holds up pretty well
- Yeah. That is such a great film, and you almost never hear people talk about it.

Hercules returns
Grandma's boy
Fat pizza
Hudson hawk
True lies
The Kentucky fried movie
- People would have liked watching Grandma's Boy more if they had robot eyes.
- Yes to Hercules Returns. I let people know that if they're going to watch it to stick through the first 20 minutes. It's pretty terrible at the start.
  
  Absolutely. I tell people the first 20 mins is the time to drink
- Kentucky Fried Movie is highly influential, routinely sampled, and yet I think mostly unseen. Like, everyone's seen Airplane. They've probably seen Naked Gun and heard of Police Squad. But this and Amazon Women On The Moon are those writers... doing Rick & Morty's interdimensional cable, basically. Freeform skits lasting however long they need to. The dumbest ideas you've ever heard, going in bizarre directions, and working far better than you expect. One of them stops the movie to have a panel discussion of the stereotypes present in the previous skit, and it is masterful.
  I wouldn't say either is better than the straight spoofs. But they're what skit shows have been chasing for fifty years, and they're not gonna waste your time.
- Hercules returns is a hidden gem
  "He looks like a condom full of walnuts!" "He wouldn't notice if someone was up him with an arm full of deck chairs
  
  Yes!
  There are far too few people who have seen it.
  I remember the first time I watched it, I had no idea what I was getting into. Then I worked out what was about to happen.
  And it was magic.
- Hudson Hawk is an amazing slapstick comedy that was marketed as an action movie because of Bruce Willis.
  Although the "shall I r**e them?" line is completely out of left field, unfunny, and unneeded.

Walk Hard
- Still holds up after all these years, maybe even better.
  
  Wrong kid died.
  
  Definitely better, its a better Elvis movie than Elvis

Kung Pow Enter the Fist
- It's currently free on YouTube (or at least it is for premium users).

My personal favorite tucker and dale vs evil.
Edit: also Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
- tucker and dale vs evil
  I came looking for this in the comments. So unexpectedly good!
- Girls like it when you laugh.

The Death of Stalin
Four Lions
- Death of Stalin is great, especially any scene with Zhukov.
- Four lions is an absolute classic. Roz Ahmed's career really took off a few years after the film and it always throws me straight back to it when I see him. It actually broke Venom for me, seeing him as the villain, as for me he is only Omar.
  I don't know about outside the UK, but I think it's quite a well known and loved movie amongst people in their late twenties onward.

My Cousin Vinny.

Black Dynamite
- I have never laughed harder in my life than to this scene: https://youtu.be/VdLq68m2G_o?si=_DS1WZp8GPjrn7dL
  
  “I threw that shit before I even walked in the room!” One of my other favourites is the pool hall fight, where the pump actually smacks the actor he’s fighting, and the guy loses his cool. Then there’s a swift, unplanned cut, and suddenly he’s fighting someone else entirely. It’s all those little pastiches of shoddy movie-making that you can miss, such a good movie!
  
  I know exactly the scene before I clicked the link lol. So good.

Uncle Buck
- I will never forget the hatchet speech, or the unbreakable China plates.

Freddie Got Fingered is a masterpiece that, when released, was one of the worst rated movies ever.
It’s so incredibly ahead of its time, coming out before all the Adult Swim absurdist stuff that we all know and love.
Bless Tom Green.

Also Adam's Apples (Adams æbler) and if you like that also The Green Butchers.

Oscar.
https://youtu.be/QbfVZBsgC4s
Directed by John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Coming to America)
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone
Don Ameche
Tim Curry
Marisa Tomei
Linda Gray
Chazz Palminteri
Kurtwood Smith
Yvonne De Carlo
Martin Ferrero
Harry Shearer
Arleen Sorkin
Kirk Douglas
- Love this one!
- Oscar is so fun. It's funny that it seems like people either adore it or despise it.

The Intouchables (SIC). The original French film with Omar Sy. Not the pointless Hollywood remake. Its my favourite comedy of all time.
- What a film. Thanks for reminding me to re-watch this

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Early Steve Martin love letter to classic film noir. Everything is played super straight and it just works

Burn After Reading.

I always liked Dr. Strangelove
- You can't fight in here! This is the war room!
- Yes. Everyone should get to see Doctor Strange love.

Drop dead gorgeous Muppet treasure island Muppets from space
- muppets from space is both one of my favorites, and contains the travesty that is whatever happened to Fozzie's writing.
  
  Mommy said, no exceptions! 😂

Idle Hands.
2000-era disaffected teen horror-comedy. Not shy about the horror elements. Absolutely bombed. Basically a forgotten stoner comedy that you reeeally shouldn't watch high.
Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica Fox.
- "And we thought fuck that. Too hard."

Harold and Maude
- Great movie, if anyone hasn't seen it yet and your feeling a bit piratey: https://bflix.io/movie/harold-and-maude-7jy5j/1-1
- I’d you haven’t seen this one, you probably should. Don’t let the title throw you off.
  Also, great Cat Stevens soundtrack.

Dirty Work: Norm MacDonald in his element. An extended sequence of him and his friend staring blankly ahead holding dead fish while a chainsaw massacre unfolds offscreen is amazing.
The Trouble with Harry: Alfred Hitchcock does madcap comedy. The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and although no one really minds, everyone thinks it's their fault. Probably the biggest starring role for a corpse until Weekend at Bernie's.

I'm really surprised I don't see "Big Trouble in Little China" on here yet.
I might catch some flack by saying this was a very respectful movie to Chinese culture for its time. This is an early Kurt Russel film, when he was pushing towards being an action star. It drifts from the classic "white guy hero in strange culture" trope and melds into a fun story where the audience-stand-in hero accepts he's out of his league and goes with it. Also, this is Victor Wong and James Hong's equivalent of Heat, where they get well developed characters and face off with each other in a grand arc. My brother and I used to quote it to each other all the time... if you ever hear someone say "Now this really pisses me off to no end," you'll get it by the end of the movie.
- It's a great movie but I don't know about "uncommon."

Mindhorn

Ah hang on, how many communities did you post this in?

Submarine.
- I won tickets to an advanced screening of Submarine with a Q&A with Richard Ayoade afterwards.
  I got to ask the final question and made Ayoade and the audience laugh, which is a minor high point in my life.
  
  Nice. What was the question?

The Yes Man.

Spies like us - Dan Akroyd / Chevy Chase - little seen 80s comedy which has some hilarious bits , great cameos and whip fast dialogue.
- Doctor
  
  Doctor.
- If I recall, that was a huge hit when it came out. I wouldn’t call it an uncommon film.
  
  That's nice. I'd still consider it more of a cult film for anyone not of that generation compared to the other films by these two.
  
  Yeah, but half the people here weren't even born when it came out.
  
  Common if you grew up with HBO in the 80s and 90s, otherwise maybe not so much.
- I loved the theme song for this when it came out.
  https://youtu.be/ZruABxAV3So?si=xDHA0EaKnydxtmBX
  
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Human Traffic

Just Visiting. (US version) honestly love that movie, of course it's gonna be cheesy, but it's a fun, funny movie that has heart.
It's about a 12th century knight and his peasant servant that gets sent to the 21st century, and it's so good.

Real Men
A 1987 comedy that includes the single most pro-trans scene I've ever seen on my life.
- Bob even becomes convinced he can shoot people by aiming his finger-guns and yelling, “Bang!”
  Wow. I completely forgot about this movie. I loved that gag. Suppose I'll seek this one out today!

Big Nothing (2006) with Simon Pegg, Alice Eve, David Schwimmer...a train wreck of events that always makes me laugh when I watch it.
- Okey dokey

Sex Drive! But it has to be the unrated uncut version. I'm grinning so hard just thinking about some scenes, especially those with Seth Green. "That's great cock, John!"

Instructions not included, Safety not guaranteed. That's two separate movies in case the name pattern is confusing
- The cast for Safety Not Guaranteed looks amazing.

Is Airplane common?
What about Naked Gun series?
- I would say those are pretty famous. At least I hope they are to people here lol.
  
  Me tooooo

Tampopo
- I love this one. Japanese spaghetti western!
  
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