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

Okay I just noticed that somehow Burn After Reading (which has a few funny bits) is on here and A Serious Man (which has more huge laughs than almost anything on here) is not. Sad!

^otm

Burn After Reading was entertaining alright but not really all that funny, IMO of course

Serious Man is def funnier

Probably a bunch of goys at the Onion.

i seem to like Soderbergh's experiments more than the avg ilxor, but The Informant! was almost disaster-level.

49. Songs From The Second Floor (2000)

51. Children of Men
56. The Road
74. Time of the Wolf

― Wes Brodicus, Thursday, July 14, 2016 7:16 AM (9 hours ago)

Eh, Songs From the Second Floor definitely has comedy as one of its genres, though personally I love it for its bleakness. Basically I have the same argument about Andersson as I do about Beckett, which is that yes, I do know their work is funny, but overplaying the funnies just ruins the whole point about the desperate and horrific absurdity of existence.

Obviously I voted for it.

in before somebody's point about [some proper comedy] also being about the desperate &c

Obviously I voted for it.

So did I.

Only half-kidding about Children of Men, that movie is funny as hell; it's just that the lulz make things worse for the viewer.

Hot Rod is funnier than like 90% of these. Criminally underrated.

OK, finally watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and its a lot of fun. I probably like it better as an action movie than a straight-up comedy, but that is mostly because I like even fewer action new movies these days than I do new comedies (honestly, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is the only other action pic from the last decade that I can think of that I even liked). Extra credit for its genuine and non-condescending empathy for its female characters. Kilmer's character needs his own series.

*new action movies

have seen most, but far from all, of these. reading the list these are the only ones ive seen that i would watch this evening:

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
In The Loop (2009)
Adaptation. (2002)
Mean Girls (2004)
Ghost World (2001)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Bad Santa (2003)

I guess I'll vote for Wet Hot American Summer. I would not be comfortable calling it the funniest movie of the century though.

I went with Superbad because the question is asking "best," not "funniest."

I need to watch Kung Fu Hustle and Smiley Face

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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.