Top Comedy Movies


The Top Comedy Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Comedy List". Lists are calculated daily.

471. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Adam McKay
Actors: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb
Plot: A pair of NASCAR drivers are put to the test when a French Formula 1 racer begins to race to the top of the NASCAR world Bobby's life and plan all crumble, especially when he and his best friend and partner go their separate ways.

472. The School of Rock

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Sarah Silverman, Mike White, Adam Pascal
Plot: An out-of-work wannabe rock star poses as a substitute teacher and after finding out his students are aces in band, enters them into a "Battle of the Bands" competition.

473. The Birdcage

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria
Plot: A gay couple tries to "play it straight" when the son of one of the men
shows up for dinner with his fiancee and her very conservative parents.

474. Play It Again, Sam

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy, Susan Anspach, Jennifer Salt
Plot: A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of his two married friends, he actually tries dating again, with less than satisfactory results, until he relaxes.

475. Ruby Sparks

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Alia Shawkat, Paul Dano, Annette Bening, Steve Coogan, Elliott Gould
Plot: An author suffering from a bad case of writer's block finds a novel way to find romance: he creates the most perfectly compatible woman for him, and wills her into existence.

476. Shallow Grave

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Colin McCredie, Robert David MacDonald
Plot: A series of interviews lead to a new roommate for a group of British flatmates. But when the new tenant winds up dead, and surprisingly loaded with cash, they have to decide what to do with the body... and the money.

477. Cat Ballou

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Actors: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat 'King' Cole, Stubby Kaye
Plot: Having just returned home from college Cat Ballou finds her father at odds with the towns people. She hires an alcoholic gunfighter to help. But when events take a turn for the worst she turns to a life of crime.
Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye appear as a kind of narrators for the film.

478. The People vs. Larry Flynt

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Milos Forman
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Brett Harrelson, Crispin Glover
Plot: A comical biography of Larry Flynt's life, the birth of Husler Magazine and his battle for free speech in America.

479. Shrek 2

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrew Adamson
Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Julie Andrews, Antonio Banderas, Eddie Murphy, John Cleese
Plot: Happily married ogre couple Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon to find an invitation for dinner in the kingdom of Far Far Away with Fiona's parents. The only problem is, they don't know she's an ogre.

480. Stuck in Love ( Writers )

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Josh Boone
Actors: Logan Lerman, Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Kristen Bell, Nat Wolff
Plot: Follows the lives of a writer, he ex and their teenaged children for one roller coaster ride of a year as each one experiences love in different ways.

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