Superbad 2007

Trippy, Absurd, or Excessively Over The Top

Awesome weird shows

According to data collected from IMDB, these movies are all the most common runtime (98-119 minutes) and of the top 3 genres since 1930 (Comedy, Drama, and Musical). Also, Certified Fresh.

Movies with at least 75% rating on trakt (and enough votes). No documentaries, reality tv or anime.

(Find the post-2010 list here: https://trakt.tv/users/themlethem/lists/highly-rated-movies-post-2010)

(Find the tv show list here: https://trakt.tv/users/themlethem/lists/highly-rated-shows-pre-2010)

Films set in high school -OR- heavily featuring teen leads

Alphabetical

Rotten Tomatoes - Best of year

The 50 best comedies as voted by you, the users.

1 - The Big Lebowski - 65 Votes
2 - Office Space - 58 Votes
3 - Shaun of the Dead - 53 Votes
4 - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - 47 Votes
5 - Superbad - 46 Votes
6 - The Hangover - 45 Votes
7 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 42 Votes
8 - Airplane! - 40 Votes
9 - Groundhog Day - 33 Votes
10 - Hot Fuzz - 33 Votes
11 - Dr. Strangelove - 32 Votes
12 - Monty Python's Life of Brian - 26 Votes
13 - Clerks - 25 Votes
14 - Pineapple Express - 21 Votes
15 - Caddyshack - 20 Votes
16 - Super Troopers - 20 Votes
17 - Borat - 19 Votes
18 - Dumb and Dumber - 19 votes
19 - Spaceballs - 19 Votes
20 - Young Frankenstein - 17 Votes
21 - The Princess Bride - 16 Votes
22 - Zoolander - 16 Votes
23 - Animal House - 15 Votes
24 - Tropic Thunder - 15 Votes
25 - Zombieland - 15 Votes
26 - Annie Hall - 14 Votes
27 - Rushmore - 14 Votes
28 - Blazing Saddles - 13 Votes
29 - Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle - 13 Votes
30 - 40 Year-Old Virgin - 12 Votes
31 - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story - 12 Votes
32 - Stepbrothers - 12 Votes
33 - Wedding Crashers - 12 Votes
34 - In Bruges - 11 Votes
35 - The Blues Brothers - 11 Votes
36 - The Jerk - 11 Votes
37 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - 10 Votes
38 - Happy Gilmore - 10 Votes
39 - Some Like it Hot - 10 Vote
40 - This is Spinal Tap - 10 Votes
41 - Clerks 2 - 9 Votes
42 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 9 Votes
43 - Hot Rod - 9 votes
44 - Little Miss Sunshine - 9 Votes
45 - Mallrats - 9 Votes
46 - Team America: World Police - 9 Votes
47 - Wayne's World - 9 Votes
48 - Wet Hot American Summer 9 Votes
49 - A Fish Called Wanda - 8 Votes
50 - The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! - 8 Votes

(OP) TheJakalope at 2010-12-23T06:49
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UPDATE: VOTING IS NOW OVER

This is a poll like PTP's Top 250 Movies.

It's simple, you list your top 10 comedies, I'll add together all the votes and this will show the favorite comedies of this community. After that's done, I'll get a collection made of all of them.

Rules
Vote only once.
You don't need to order them from 1-10.
No more then 10 Movies in a list.
No stand up, must have an actual plot line.
Though this seems obvious, your entries must be comedies.

I'll start.

1.Anchorman
2.Hot Rod
3.Pineapple Express
4.Hot Fuzz
5.Zombieland
6.The Royal Tenenbaums
7.Shaun of the Dead
8.Knocked Up
9.Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10.Mean Girls

EDIT: thisguy has generously offered to send 1000 Points to everyone who votes!
Last edited by TheJakalope 2010-12-27T06:28
"""

Californian's vote at 2010-12-26T07:26
"""
Here's my list, and I can't really choose an order except to say that Zoolander is probably my favorite movie ever. And thanks for having us make this; I need to download some of these still and watch them again (and again)!
Zoolander
Anchorman
Office Space
Superbad
The Hangover
Knocked Up
In Bruges (kinda dark, but still a comedy in my book)
Thank You For Smoking
I Love You, Man
Pineapple Express
"""

I well remember being taken to Blazing Saddles at the age of 10, when I was far too young to understand most of the jokes. At the same time, I could see how important Blazing Saddles was to my parents and their friends. They quoted from it for months—years—afterward.

As much as savoring a particular joke, I realize now, they were trying to reclaim that initial, joyful shock to the system. There’s not a film on the WGA’s 101 Funniest Screenplays that doesn’t produce such an unexpected jolt, if not a sustained quake, and for the same reasons Blazing Saddles did—by transgressing accepted norms.

One question that this list asks, however: Should a great comedy simply be gauged by the laughter it elicits? “Satire is what closes on Saturday night,” George S. Kaufman famously quipped. A number of the comedies on this list went under-appreciated at the box office and by critics; years, if not decades, had to pass before the work began to receive its due. This was as true for Buster Keaton’s The General as it was nearly half a century later for Harold and Maude, and 30 years after that for Office Space.

The oldest movie on the list is Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925), while the most recent is Bridesmaids, released in 2011. The latter also has the distinction of being written by two women—Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, working in slapstick, a genre historically dominated by men. Bridesmaids comes in at no. 16, immediately after When Harry Met Sally, written by the legendary Nora Ephron. Comedy screenwriting has long been a playground that women and writers of color have not had enough time in. The work of Richard Pryor on Blazing Saddles, Tina Fey on Mean Girls, Amy Heckerling on Clueless, and Hagar Wilde, co-writer of Bringing Up Baby, makes you wonder what a list would be if the playground had been more inclusive all along.

In the end, the variety of films on the list—as different as Being There is to Airplane! or Duck Soup is to Fargo—indicates how difficult it is to gauge a great comedy by any set of particular criteria. Better to say the best comedy writers and comedians are like astronauts, launching themselves beyond the ozone layer of the tasteful and the expected in order to find the forbidden or the outrageous or the merely uncomfortable. Whether that produces an outrageous comedy like Mrs. Doubtfire or a satire like Dr. Strangelove, the goal is still provocation. And truth.

Written by Paul Brownfield
2015-11-15

I started off by gathering ratings from IMDB (User/Critic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average, Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). I was then able to determine a rating (out of 10) for each individual rating and therefore come up with an average rating for each site. Each site’s average rating was then weighted fairly so that no site’s ratings were favored above the rest.

The next step was to make sure that each film was treated fairly. Other top movie list’s like IMDb’s Top 1000 removes films that have under a certain viewing number (25,000 I think), but rather than ruling out films that may have been overlooked by the general audience (especially older films), I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it. I also thought it was needed to make sure that recent films (released within the past 36 months) were also not favored, as it usually takes 3 years for the average rating to settle down. So I also added a deduction to these films that fell under this rule.

Taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3hbiio/update_1001_greatest_movies_of_all_time_plus/

Equivalent to comfort food. In my opinion a good comfort movie is a film that you can watch over and over. Also you can put on a good comfort movie and if you are sick you can go to sleep and have it on in the background.

My personal Classic comedy list

New millennium, new technology. Film cameras were the standard way to shoot a movie for over a century, and now they to had to make space for upstart digital. Without digital cameras, zombies would’ve stayed dead; 28 Days Later was only possible with how quick and easy it is to set up with them. Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) and Neill Blomkamp (District 9) certainly benefited from the new technology.

Movies were also used to absorb our collective trauma. We escaped into magic and wonder in the months after 9/11 with Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, while we celebrated the end of the Great Recession by getting the hell off this planet with Avatar. And speaking of those series, we didn’t want their installments taking up all the spots on this list, so one movie representing the whole franchise was chosen for those worthy.

And your vast comic-book trivia knowledge became a social asset, not a bullseye for beatings. Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and Spider-Man 2 opened up new ways of connected storytelling (and money making). And it wasn’t just superheroes making the leap to the mainstream. Fanboy culture, the internet, and sites like the one you’re reading now helped bring “genre” movies to the cultural forefront: zombies (28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead), sci-fi (Avatar, Serenity), horror (The Descent, Saw), and fantasy (Pan’s Labyrinth).

Meanwhile, under-served voices started to make some noise in the mainstream with films led by females (Mean Girls, Whale Rider, Bend It Like Beckham, Twilight), made African-American filmmakers (Love & Basketball, Barbershop), and featuring Asian-American stars (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Better Luck Tomorrow). And that’s not including the increasingly easy access to international material like City of God and Let the Right One In.

And we still haven’t touched upon Pixar’s golden age (WALL-E, Finding Nemo), Hollywood finding the formula for comedies perfectly balanced between smart and dumb (The Hangover, The 40-Year Old Virgin), or that the Fast & Furious series got its humble beginnings here. A lot happened in this decade: Discover it all with the 140 Essential Movies of the 2000s!

Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-2000s-movies/

02/08/21-02/14/21: Django Unchained, Hamilton, Avatar
02/15/21-02/21/21: Cool Hand Luke, The Princess Bride, Train to Busan
02/22/21-02/28/21: Booksmart, V/H/S, Cars 3
03/01/21-03/07/21: American Pie 2, The Departed, Warrior
03/08/21-03/14/21: October Sky, The Truman Show, Cool Runnings
03/15/21-03/21/21: Jack, A Perfect Getaway, Knock Knock
03/22/21-03/28/21: This Is the End, Looper, Cloverfield
03/29/21-04/04/21: The Dig, Good Will Hunting, The Legend of Bagger Vance
04/05/21-04/11/21: The Nice Guys, Jojo Rabbit, Treasure Planet
04/12/21-04/18/21: What We Do in the Shadows, Mystery Men, Garden State
04/19/21-04/25/21: A Knight's Tale, Free Solo, Palm Springs
05/03/21-05/09/21: Osmosis Jones, The Big Sick, Arrival
05/10/21-05/16/21: The Place Beyond the Pines, The Kings of Summer, Seven Psychopaths
05/17/21-05/23/21: Role Models, Sorry to Bother You, Up
05/24/21-05/30/21: Wonder, The Good Liar, Rudderless
05/31/21-06/06/21: Reign of Fire, Shooter, Remember the Titans
06/07/21-06/13/21: Superbad, Sound of Metal, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
06/14/21-06/20/21: The Girl Next Door, Army of the Dead, (500) Days of Summer
06/21/21-06/27/21: The Green Mile, Moneyball, Beverly Hills Ninja
06/28/21-07/04/21: Fargo, Reign Over Me, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
07/05/21-07/11/21: American: The Motion Picture, Independence Day, The Sandlot
07/12/21-07/18/21: 22 Jump Street, Thor: Ragnarok, Back to the Future Part III
07/19/21-07/25/21: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Imitation Game, The Judge
07/26/21-08/01/21: Whiplash, WALL-E, The Patriot
08/02/21-08/08/21: A Silent Voice, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Onward
08/09/21-08/15/21: One Night in Miami..., My Uncle Frank, The Sweetest Thing
08/16/21-08/22/21: The Shape of Water, Safety, Boogie Nights
08/23/21-08/29/21: Buster's Mal Heart, Interstellar, Casino Royale
08/30/21-09/05/21: It Follows, Room, Vacation Friends
09/06/21-09/12/21: The Upside, Horrible Bosses, Spider-Man 2
09/13/21-09/19/21: The Intern, The Way Way Back, Sing Street
09/20/21-09/26/21: Edge of Tomorrow, There Will Be Blood, National Treasure
09/27/21-10/03/21: Pete's Dragon, Isle of Dogs, Minari
10/04/21-10/10/21: American Factory, The Final Girls, Our Idiot Brother
10/11/21-10/17/21: Zodiac, Schumacher, Holes
10/18/21-10/24/21: Birdman, The Founder, Jack Frost
10/25/21-10/31/21: Scary Movie, Trick 'r Treat, Halloweentown
11/01/21-11/07/21: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Chronicle, The Love Guru
11/08/21-11/14/21: Saving Mr. Banks, McFarland USA, Begin Again
11/15/21-11/21/21: Home Alone, I Robot, Johnny Tsunami
11/22/21-11/28/21: The Edge of Seventeen, About Time, Klaus
11/29/21-12/05/21: School of Rock, Office Space, Love and Monsters
12/06/21-12/12/21: Red Notice, We Were Soldiers, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
12/13/21-12/19/21: Pig, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Kicking & Screaming
12/20/21-12/26/21: The Matrix, The Night Before, Better Watch Out
12/27/21-01/02/22: tick, tick... BOOM!, Doctor Strange, Tommy Boy