A.V. Club's "The 50 best comedies since 2000"

I think people are higher on the idea of Smiley Face (arthouse director does dumb stoner comedy with Anna Faris in the leading role) than the reality. It's only ok

Watched Offside the other night because of this list, seriously great movie, deserves to be about 40 places higher.

Offside is screening at the state art gallery in a few months and I've been pumped bcz of this thread

Smiley Face is deeply unfunny, a wierdly anti-stoner stoner comedy.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Best in Show. Please, anything but Wet Hot American Summer.

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the ILXiest of results

So nobody voted for Offside... And only I voted for 12:08.

Bad Santa is v funny the first time and gets tiresome on subsequent viewings ime

44. The Color Wheel (2011) 0
6. Frances Ha (2012) 0
43. State And Main (2000) 0
41. Ocean’s Eleven (2001) 0
47. Force Majeure (2014) 0
39. Offside (2006) 0
24. Obvious Child (2014) 0
14. Bridesmaids (2011) 0
30. Young Adult (2011) 0
31. The World’s End (2013) 0
20. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) 0
33. Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 0
19. The Lobster (2015) 0
37. School Of Rock (2003) 0
38. I Heart Huckabees (2004) 0
50. Four Lions (2010) 0

otm

although I heard The Lobster was good.

48. Josie And The Pussycats (2001) 6

clutch

I've watched it J&tP twice now, the second time because it did so well on our comedy poll a few years back, and I still have no idea what people see in it. The boy band episode of The Simpsons did the same thing better like a year or two earlier.

Those results: sea level rise couldn't happen fast enough

Josie was a frustrating letdown after Kaplan & Elfont's first film, and for all its critical acclaim seemed to put them into movie jail.

I watched it recently with my girlfriend and was fearing bad eyes, but it's still got it - a funny film about the music industry with a great soundtrack - and everyone is pretty.

Josie was a frustrating letdown after Kaplan & Elfont's first film, and for all its critical acclaim seemed to put them into movie jail.

― Shakey δσς (sic), Saturday, July 30, 2016 5:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

makes sense, it was a huge commercial flop, it barely made back a third of its budget and iirc it was pretty well-marketed. It only got mixed reviews at the time, I feel like it's only been in the past 5 years or so that I've seen it critically rehabilitated, and even that's been on a fairly small scale.
Though it's possible it had a stronger immediate cult than I realized.

I was surprised to see it take this poll, it has its moments but it's just ok

ahem.

Josie and the Pussycats: Classic or Dud

borat was surprisingly ephemeral; people really did laugh Very Hard at it in the theater but nobody's dared to go back to announce their "funniest movie of all time?" thinkpieces have been vindicated.

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, July 12, 2016 11:48 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i laughed a ton at this movie but have never wanted to revisit it -- doesn't feel like the kind of thing that rewards repeat viewings. like a lot of the films on this list but don't rly love a lot of them. ones i'd watch again: ghost world, in the loop, walk hard, josie, school of rock.

Those results: sea level rise couldn't happen fast enough

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

^^^^^

the josie soundtrack is pretty all time and as a whole it ages v. well

Think I found one joke in Josie and the Pussycats funny: "Du Jour, 2008-09." Tara Reid, sometimes--a little went a long way. The music was an okay (but clichéd) simulation of power pop.

josie and the pussycats is perfect. adam schlesinger wrote most of the songs so they're actual power pop instead of a simulation imo

Eh, he wrote one song, ""Pretend to Be Nice," which may be the best. He did produce a bunch, though.

I guess it's real enough all right--I read that the singing was done by someone from Letters to Cleo--but I'll stick by clichéd. It just struck me as the most generic kind of power pop.

matthew sweet on the soundtrack too, and jason falkner from the jellyfish.

and two pitch-perfect boy band pastiche tracks, with the whole thing executive produced by babyface

r/n i feel like "come on" is the best track on the album -- have we ever polled it?

Josie & The Pussycats fandom seems like a time capsule for treating fun pop (music and TV-wise at least) much more seriously than ILX currently does.

I agree that the boy-band song was spot-on.

Biggest lol on the list is lol @ no super troopers

I thought of something that isn't on the list

What We Do In The Shadows is excellent.

Not much love here for some reason.

ILX didn't much like Flight of The Conchords either though did we?

Sigh... in retrospect it really does seem like the '00s were a golden age of mainstream film comedy. Nowadays a clever idea for a comedy is remaking Mean Girls. Sad.

Lots of comedies not even listed here better than what we get these days: The Hangover, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, 2 Days in Paris, Elf, Dodgeball, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Zach and Miri Make a Porno, Napoleon Dynamite, Mamma Mia!, Meet the Parents, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, etc..

what exactly do we get these days? it feels like they don't make these kinds of movies at all anymore. unless there's a bunch of direct-to-Netflix stuff with Adam Sandler or whatever

They're pretty much all direct to streaming now, with the two most recent exceptions being Barbie and No Hard Feelings (which ended up on Netflix like six weeks after it opened anyway).

You Hurt My Feelings isn't exactly a guffaw-style comedy, but it was worth watching

Holofcener is possibly the secret best Comedy director of the modern era.

Add me to the three posters who lobbied for Adventureland.

Honestly I don't miss "let's get 20 takes of Will Ferrell and stitch it together afterwards" (for all that I love, for example, Zoolander and him in it)

From a dumb list of "best comedies of 2023", along with the ones already mentioned, there's Are you there, God?, Bottoms, Joy Ride, Cocaine Bear, Flux Gourmet - Poor Things is out just now, there's Argylle and Wicked Little Letters and Drive-Away Dolls dues later this year - the distinction made by Morbius about character comedies vs jokebook comedies is solid, and there's a lack of "I went in and was in shocked laughter for 90 minutes" (though Bottoms is closest), but again I'm fine with that.

And yeah of course something as hard to audience-size as comedy is getting less time in cinemas in 2024.

I was probably one of the Josie voters, dlh otm both that it slows down towards the end (when it decides needs to be a romcom) and that it's a great corporate dystopia. I suspect that seeing it at #48 on the original list and WHAS at #1 would have affected that, and seeing it on top by one vote is sweet - absent such enjoyable pettiness, I'd probably pick Walk Hard.

Tbf, they didn't just remake Mean Girls, they made a movie based on the musical based on the movie. Not that you would know it from the trailer, tho.

Would add Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar as a good broad comedy of recent vintage. It wasn't a theatrical release but I think it was supposed to be if not for the pandemic.

Bottoms seemed to split the room pretty sharply. So yeah, perhaps the heir to WHAS

I remember Bad Santa being flat and not particularly funny, weird top pick.

I just couldn't believe how bad the Santa was

and then he got badder!