Fake Alien Comedysimon-19801980A directorial debut from Woody Allen co-writer Marshall Brickman, an offbeat comedy where scientists hypnotise Alan Arkin into believing he is an alien
May 9, 2001Psychotherapy Romantic Comedy/Freud's Ghost
Psychotherapy Romantic Comedy/Freud's Ghostlovesick-19831983Comedy in which Freud's ghost pops up to offer advice to psychologist Dudley Moore after he falls in love with a patient
Arms Trading Black Comedydeal-of-the-century-19831983William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, had a flop with this unfunny Chevy Chase and Sigourney Weaver starring comedy about arms dealing
Pyrokinesis Comedynice-girls-dont-explode-19871987Charmingly nonsensical comedy variant on Firestarter where a girl’s dating life is a nightmare due to her causing things to spontaneously combust when she becomes emotionally aroused
Fairytale Romance/Swashbucklerprincess-bride-19871987Swashbuckling fairytale that treads a fine line between deconstruction and parody, while reveling in a script where the dialogue positively dances. Perfectly cast - a film that few do not come out enjoying its ebullient fantasy
Sexual Rondeau Comedy/Ghostscenes-from-the-class-struggle-in-beverly-hills-19891989Director Paul Bartel and a reasonable name cast make a comedy about the sex lives of the Beverly Hills elites
Aug 24, 2010Adventures on a Planet of Stupid People Comedy
Adventures on a Planet of Stupid People Comedymom-and-dad-save-the-world-19921992Films about stupid people are rarely funny - this concerns a whole planet of stupid people. Despite reasonable production values, there is little that raises even a mild smile in this comedic take on Flash Gordon
Dec 16, 2001Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toys
Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toystoy-story-1-19951995The first film from Pixar and a breakthrough in being the first computer-animated film. Even aside from its technical innovations, this is enormously good fun with extremely well-constructed character arcs
Dec 2, 1999Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toys
Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toystoy-story-2-19991999Pixar's sequel to their first film and arguably an even better work where they get the plaintive emotion, character arcs and witty humour down perfect
Alien Visitor Comedy/TV Series Remakemy-favorite-martian-19991999Big screen remake of the 1960s sitcom about a wacky alien visitor that promptly gets buried under frenetic slapstick and cheap CGI gags
Haunted House Comedyhaunted-mansion-20032003Lightweight film based around the Disney theme park attraction that becomes a Eddie Murphy comedy where he and his family enter into a big old mansion that proves to be haunted
Pixar Animation/Superhero Spoofincredibles-1-20042004Big hit for Pixar and director Brad Bird, a witty spoof of the superhero film that shows a superhero family trying to deal with everyday life. Enormously good-natured fun all around
Animation/Fairytale Deconstructionhappily-never-after-20062006Another in the spate of animated fairytale parodies that came out in the wake of Shrek, this subjects Cinderella to an excruciating barrage of pop-culture jokes and one-liners
Near-Future L.A.southland-tales-20062006Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko fame makes a work set in a near-future L.A., a sprawling film bursting at the edges with too many characters and subplots but not uninteresting
Talking Animal Spy Caperscats-and-dogs-2-revenge-of-kitty-galore-20102010Cats & Dogs was amiable but this sequel struggles against the irritatingly cutsie elements that have come to dominate this mini-genre of live-action talking animals films
Animals Amok Comedyfurry-vengeance-20102010Excruciating CGI cute animals film where animals gang up to stop Brendan Fraser redeveloping their forest. Essentially a 1970s Nature's Revenge film by way of the slapstick family-friendly violence of Home Alone
Jun 19, 2010Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toys
Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toystoy-story-3-20102010After such high standards with the previous two films, there is considerable onus on Pixar when it comes to this third entry nevertheless they manage to wring some strong and effective new twists on the familiar
Doppelgangerdouble-20132013Socially inept Jesse Eisenberg encounters a charming doppelganger that takes over his life. Richard Ayoade adapts a Dostoevsky novella but for some reason transplants it into a blackly comic dystopia akin to Terry Gilliam's Brazil
Oct 12, 2019Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toys
Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toystoy-story-4-20192019Pixar's diversion off into sequel-making has weakened the unbroken string of hits the studio had throughout the 2000s. Here they sequelise their very first film for a third time but the surprise is a film that creates a range of eccentric characters and finds the wit and warmth that has been missing through the last few entries
Jan 16, 2022Kid Detective and His Imaginary Polar Bear Companion
Kid Detective and His Imaginary Polar Bear Companiontimmy-failure-mistakes-were-made-20202020This must have been a marketing nightmare for Disney – a film about a kid who operates as a private detective along with his polar bear imaginary companion. The result has an oddball charm
Kinky Perverse Family/Animationaddams-family-2-20212021The animated revival of the Addams Family was a mixed affair. All of the same creative personnel and voice talents return here for a sequel, which takes the Addams Family on a road trip
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