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High-minded satire or expertly timed farts: many of the best comedies blend highbrow and lowbrow (think Monty Python), but, at the end of the day, the best comedy is the one that makes you laugh the most.
Has the Ghostbusters franchise seen better days? Probably, but there's still some life left in the spirited series, and this latest installment blends the characters from the '80s era of the series (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts) with the new generation introduced in Afterlife (Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace). After that previous film's excursion into rural Oklahoma, a return to a more familiar New York City environs is welcome.
The movie that made Eddie Murphy an international superstar stands up today as one of the best examples of the 1980s action comedy subgenre. Murphy plays Detroit cop Axel Foley, out of his depth (at first) when he finds himself pursuing a case in sunny California and teaming up with Judge Reinhold. And what a soundtrack! Netflix also has the decent first sequel, as well as this year's surprisingly good legacy followup, Axel F.
This charming, bitchy blockbuster stars Constance Wu as Rachel Chu, an NYU professor from a poor family, who learns (a bit late in the game) that her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding) is the heir to a massive Singaporean real estate empire. She's suddenly thrown into a world of obscene wealth and treated like a gold digger, forced to face off against Nick's impenetrable mother (Michelle Yeoh).
Frank (Seth Rogen) the sausage, Brenda (Kristen Wiig) the hot dog bun, Teresa Taco (Salma Hayek), and Sammy Bagel Jr. (Edward Norton) can't wait to be chosen from the grocery store shelves by a loving family. Until they learn the horrible truth. It's nearly 90 minutes of raunchy jokes and goofy food puns, but it's also weirdly sweet? If you like this, it got a followup TV series this year, but you'll have to subscribe to Prime Video to watch it.
A tightly constructed and rather weird time travel comedy about a kid who goes back in time and gets hit on by his own mom becomes an epic bit of sci-fi silliness in the hands of director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd are a cinematic pairing for the ages. It's a movie that's as funny as it is rewatchable.
After crafting a superb mystery-comedy in Knives Out, writer-director Ryan Johnson returned with this sequel that almost tops the original, and certainly outdoes it in size and scope. Daniel Craig is back as slow-talking, quick-thinking detective Benoit Blanc, this time taken to the island of a billionaire and faced with, as expected, multiple murders to solve. Like the original, the movie balances zippy pacing and entertainingly over-the-top characters with some wildly on-point social satire. The supporting cast collects the entire A-list, and two cameos mark the final screen performances of Steven Sondheim and Angela Lansbury.
The action-comedy franchise lives on with the latest entry in the Bad Boys series, Ride or Die. In the meantime, Netflix has the 1995 original (and the first sequel). Martin Lawrence and Will Smith have chemistry for the ages (which is why we're getting new movies almost 30 years later), even if the Michael Bay of it all places explosions over everything else. The recent movies are actually a bit better than the originals, so if you like this one, you might as well keep going.
Glen Powell (who co-wrote this dark comedy alongside director Richard Linklater) stars as Gary Johnson, a withdrawn New Orleans professor who's roped into a side gig at which he's surprisingly good: impersonating hired assassins to help out the police. People looking to hire a killer come to Gary believing that he's a hit man, only to find that they've been entrapped. Things get complicated when he's approached by Madison (Adria Arjona), a woman with an abusive jerk of a husband she wants bumped off. Suddenly not so clear as to whose side he's on.
The Archie gang has proven itself to be remarkably adaptable: from a wholesome family-friendly comic, to zombie horror, to whatever the hell you'd classify Riverdale as. So this bubbly, '60s-set Indian version doesn't even feel like that much of a stretch. The movie's Riverdale is a harmonious Anglo-Indian enclave, home to Archie Andrews (Agastya Nanda), rich Veronica (Suhana Khan), and bookish Betty (Khushi Kapoor), all recreating a version of that time-tested love triangle. It's cute, funny, and sincere, with plenty of very charming musical numbers.
Want to see just the cream of the crop when it comes to Netflix Original romantic comedies? Resident critic Andrew Morgan, who has watched his fair share of rom-coms over the years, compiled a list of his favorite Original rom-coms earlier this year.
Hailey DeDominicis wrote the script, and Stephen Herek directed the film. The plot revolves around two resentful and warring exes forced to spend Christmas together under the same roof after learning their new partners are siblings.
Another of the rom-coms planned for release for Christmas 2024 is The Merry Gentlemen, which is about a former big-city dancer who decides to stage an all-male, Christmas-themed revue to save a small-town performing venue.
Fresh off his Miranda Cosgrove and Brooke Shields movie Mother of the Bride, director Mark Waters has another rom-com lined up for Netflix. Unlike his previous work, this one is set not in Thailand but in the picturesque locations of Tuscany, Italy.
The duo behind Falling Inn Love (Elizabeth Hackett & Hilary Galanoy) are writing the film, which entered production in early 2024, with the cast set to include Scott Foley, Violante Placido, Maia Reficco, and Giuseppe Futia. The plot revolves around a businessman who travels to Italy to stop his daughter from spending all her money to restore an old villa, but Italy has other romantic plans.
Tyler Perry will reprise his iconic role as Madea. The plot revolves around her granddaughter, Tiffany, who introduces her new boyfriend to the family and drops the shocking news that they are planning a destination wedding in the Bahamas.
If you're looking for a belly laugh, you're in the right place as we've rounded up a list of the best Netflix comedies. There's a whole breadth of different types of comedies too, including everything from family favorites, heartwarming fare like Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga to satires like Don't Look Up. Then there are the titles that blend giggles and thrills like Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery...
To spare you valuable scrolling time on your next movie night, when you could be tucking into popcorn and laughing away, we've pulled together the most side-splitting films Netflix has to offer. Whatever you're in the mood for, whether it's something with a big-name star like Eddie Murphy in Dolemite is My Name or a more under-the-radar pick like Bo Burnham's Inside, there'll be something here to tickle your fancy.
Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, which is in turn inspired by Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name, the film was directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. It centers on Drea (Riverdale's Camila Mendes), an IT girl who falls from grace when a nude video of herself intended for her boyfriend is leaked, and Eleanor (Maya Hawke), who is shunned by her peers when a rumor about her forcibly kissing another girl starts spreading. Determined to turn their lives around, the pair team up to take down one another's bullies.
Sometimes, you feel like watching a comedy with a decent plot that's going to draw you in, make you care for the characters, and leave your cheeks hurting and your heart all warm and fuzzy. Other times, you just want to see a bunch of grown-ups willingly put themselves into uncomfortable, often painful situations and laugh at their misfortune. Enter Jackass 4.5, which pulls together deleted scenes from Jackass Forever. Johnny Knoxville, Danger Ehren, Steve-O, Dave England, Rachel Wolfson, Zach Holmes, Chris Pontius, Jasper Dolphin, Eric Manaka, Sean 'Poopies' McInerney, Wee Man, and Preston Lacy all feature.
The starry, Oscar-nominated dark comedy Don't Look Up sees two astronomers trying to spread the message that a giant comet is going to wipe out life on Earth. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be listening.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as astronomers Randall and Kate, while Meryl Streep is President Orlean, and Jonah Hill is her son and Chief of Staff. Mark Rylance, Timothe Chalamet, Tyler Perry, Cate Blanchett, and Ron Perlman co-star. Adam McKay directs.
We haven't included any of Netflix's many stand-up comedy specials in this list of the best Netflix comedies, instead focussing on proper movies. However, Bo Burnham's Inside falls into a very weird place of being both a comedy special, but also bordering on being a proper movie.
Made and released during the Coronavirus pandemic, Inside is unlike anything else made across the same period. It starts off laugh-out-loud funny, with some great songs about white women's Instagram profiles and Facetiming with your parents. However, it soon looks inward, with Burnham addressing depression and a growing discontent with the internet. We won't spoil anything more, but the overall experience is a thought-provoking film.
When Deidra and Laney's mother, a frustrated box store employee, unleashes holy hell at work and winds up behind bars it's up to Deidra to figure a way to feed them and their younger brother. The best caper comedies are born from dire situations such as these. That's the burning idea at the heart of this warm chuckle fest from director Sydney Freeland and screenwriter Shelby Farrell. Deidra's (Riverdale's Ashleigh Murray) life is upended, making her typical schemes like flipping papers for cash seem humdrum in comparison.
Her ambitious mind now free to explore more extraordinary circumstances, the plot surges forward as she opts to loop her sister into the plan to rob not just a train, but several. What makes this such a winning pic is the sharp, snappy dialogue and its commitment to placing the story in the hands of a racially-diverse cast. Part of Netflix's more recent foray into edgier teen content, Farrell's script drops a slew of one-liners that make this comedy both sweet and sharp.
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