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Netflix has a dazzling selection of comedy movies that put that good-time feeling on demand. Whether you're craving action-spiked shenanigans, quirky coming-of-age adventures, awkward humor, stranger-than-fiction silliness, madcap musical numbers, or crime with a spree of laughs, there's a perfect pick for you. And we've made singling it out all the easier by highlighting the most hilarious below.

Eddie Murphy returns as wise-cracking Detroit police officer Axel Foley. 30 years after Beverly Hills Cop III, this sensational sequel sees Foley returning to Los Angeles to fight a new foe, reunite with old friends, and reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Are you ready for a shell with a googly eye to make you cry? The YouTube sensation Marcel the Shell has his own movie, and while it's filled with goofy visual gags and silly jokes, it's also got a poignant undercurrent about loss.

Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp reunite for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, an A24 outing that has the eponymous hero (voiced by Slate) befriending a human documentarian (Fleischer-Camp). Together, they search for Marcel's long-lost family. As with the YouTube shorts, the feature-length film showcases Marcel's adorable meanderings around household objects that tower over him, like a potted plant, a stand mixer, or a tennis ball, as well as his eccentric musings. But there's a sophisticated meta commentary on the highs and lows of internet fame.

Looking for a revenge flick that pays tribute to teen classics like Mean Girls, Heathers, Cruel Intentions, and more? Then check out Do Revenge, a dark comedy sure to join the canon of iconic high school movies. Students Drea (Camila Mendes) and Eleanor (Maya Hawke) couldn't be more different... apart from the fact that both have major bones to pick with people who ruined their reputations. They decide to team up and execute one another's revenge plans, which leads down a winding road of morally dubious choices, snappy one-liners, and excellent outfits.

This 2016 adventure about bad egg Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) and his curmudgeonly foster father Hec (Sam Neill) is the kind of eccentric delight that writer/director Taika Waititi specializes in (this time co-writing with Barry Crump, who wrote the original book).

Sometimes true crime can lead to some pitch-perfect dark comedy. This is the case for this outrageous offering, which stars Jack Black as infamous scammer/local celebrity Jan Lewan. Black brings all the rock star panache you need to understand how Lewan could be so beguiling to the Pennsylvanian retirees who surrendered their savings to the self-proclaimed Polka King.

Sony Pictures Animation has given audiences such daring and dynamic animated movies as Surf's Up, Hotel Transylvania, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. This zany 2021 release centers on a family who's battling back the robo-apocalypse with togetherness, internet savviness, and a wall-eyed pug named Monchi (voiced by social media icon Doug the Pug).

Writer/director Rian Johnson follows up his critically heralded whodunnit with a sequel that's even more explosive than Knives Out. Southern gentleman/detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back, drawling deductions and whipping out witticisms, much to the chagrin of a group of wealthy and conniving friends.

With its reputation for wacky musical numbers, the Eurovision Song Contest is ripe for parody. Luckily for Eurovision lovers, the contest gets the send-up it deserves in this gloriously goofy flick starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams. They play the Icelandic musical duo Fire Saga, who find themselves in the Eurovision spotlight. There, they discover that the famed competition is a world of cutthroat competitors, glitzy costumes, and many, many bops.

Kristy Puchko is the Film Editor at Mashable. Based in New York City, she's an established film critic and entertainment reporter, who has traveled the world on assignment, covered a variety of film festivals, co-hosted movie-focused podcasts, interviewed a wide array of performers and filmmakers, and had her work published on RogerEbert.com, Vanity Fair, and The Guardian. A member of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA as well as a Top Critic on Rotten Tomatoes, Kristy's primary focus is movies. However, she's also been known to gush over television, podcasts, and board games. You can follow her on Twitter.

It's a modern classic that's quoted endlessly, and features a scene where Will Ferrell rubs his balls on a drum set. In fact, Will Ferrell actually kept the prosthetic balls as a keepsake. Leaving aside the obvious choices of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, you've got two truly gifted and completely unlikely choices to play their respective parents - Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins. It oddly works.

"The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it. This cult classic is endlessly quotable with some iconic characters who, aside from Jeff Bridges' "Dude", include John Travolta's Walter Sobchak, Steve Buscemi's Donny, and John Turturro's Jesus Quintana, who got his own spin-off slash sequel in recent years.

"This might be my masterpiece," is the last line of Tarantino's new movie, which could be the director's contentment with his farcical WWII actioner, a movie he's been planning for ten years. It may not be a masterpiece, or even his masterpiece, but it's a hell of a lot of fun. This movie saw Tarantino back making movies for the audience and not just his mates. It's also the movie that brought Christoph Waltz to prominence with mainstream cinema. The film would never have been made were it not for Waltz as Hans Landa.

Released in 1989, 'See No Evil Hear No Evil' is one of our older entries for movies to watch on Netflix with Dad. It has aged like a fine wine thanks to the timeless, hilarious performances of leads Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, and their magnificent chemistry. Pryor plays a blind man while Wilder's character is deaf. The two make friends and eventually get accidentally caught up in a crime caper when they (sort of) witness a murder. A high concept movie expertly executed.

Referring to this gem as 'Ghostbusters set in the west of Ireland' does the trick, but it's so much more than that. For this writer's money, it's not only the best Irish comedy to come out of 2019. It's also the funniest movie of that year. A driving instructor is reluctantly sucked back into her alternative career of communicating with ghosts; at the same time, a one-hit wonder singer makes a deal with the devil.

This biographical flick depicts the rise and fall of the rap group N.W.A and its members Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre. It came three years before 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Thus you can argue that it was this movie (not the controversial Queen biopic) that revived interest in the musical biopic. Cast members O'Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, Aldis Hodge and Neil Brown Jr. all impress.

Basketball got some major hype on Netflix in 2020 between docuseries 'The Last Dance' and '90s classic 'Space Jam' being recently added - and 'Space Jam: A New Legacy' is on the way. If you can't get enough of that content, 'Coach Carter' is a great one to check out. Samuel L Jackson plays the real life figure, who benches his team of high school players when they break their academic contracts with him.

The place is Moscow, the year is 1953 and after being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies after an inconveniently brief illness. Amid the shock, the members of the Council of Ministers engage in a chaotic bid for power. Armando Iannucci's political satire stars Andrea Riseborough, Jason Isaacs, Rupert Friend, Simon Russell Beale, Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor and Michael Palin. It will have you laughing until you cry.

If you're looking for something a bit longer, but still throughly compelling, to sink your teeth into Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' is now on Netflix. According to our review, "Spike Lee's follow-up to 'Blackkklansman' is another sharply-realised, evocative drama." It is a "striking historical drama that earnestly attempts to confront the demons of war and the legacies they leave behind." This was the major shut-out movie of this year's Oscars.

Among the best movies on Netflix to watch with Dad, we had to pick 'The Blues Brothers'. It's got everything - great music, impressive cameos, neat suits, and a whole lotta laughs. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd play the titular Jakes siblings. They are "on a mission from God" to get their band back together and raise money to save an orphanage.

Music has always been a major component in the Coens' output, none more evident than 'O, Brother Where Art Thou'? and its use of bluegrass music. Only the Coens would attempt to retell Homer's 'Odyssey' in the Depression-era South, yet that instinctive choice of both subject and setting feels like it was preordained. The era was known for having huge names like Ulysses Everett McGill and Menelaus 'Pappy' O'Daniel and the idea of John Goodman playing a club-wielding, Bible-selling cyclops is too good to pass up.

In 'Cape Fear', Robert DeNiro plays Max Cady, a tattooed rapist, recently released from prison. His public defender, Nick Nolte, is now living an idyllic life with his wife and teenage daughter. After Nolte botched DeNiro's defence and made sure he went to prison, DeNiro's character returns to seek vengeance on him. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film harks back to the original, as well as drawing influence from Alfred Hitcock and other 1960's thrillers. It goes on a little bit and DeNiro can be accused of, well, over-acting. Nevertheless, it's a gritty, nerve-wracking thriller and one of the best films Scorsese and DeNiro worked on together.

'My Octopus Teacher' deservedly came away from the Oscars with the Best Documentary award. Sure that's a genre that some are uninterested in. But this film feels more akin to 'Charlotte's Web' crossed with Disney Pixar, than a high-brow doc. The gorgeous, highly emotive feature depicts the unusual friendship that develops between a filmmaker and an octopus in a South African kelp forest. Get ready for 85 minutes of pure movie magic.

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