Blazing Saddles. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Some Like It Hot. The Room. These are all movies that are commonly regarded as comedic masterpieces, so you probably know about them already, and that’s okay. Well, maybe not The Room. It’s as funny as some of those genuine masterpieces, but whether all that comedy is intentional is up for debate. Or it potentially doesn’t matter. Funny is funny.
Speaking of funny, and speaking of great movies, that’s what the following ones all are, but they’re not quite as well known as some of the most legendary comedies out there. If you’ve actually heard of most of these before, then congratulations, you are very smart. Also, if there are forgotten movies you think should be here that didn’t appear, maybe they were forgotten by the person who put all this together. Ironic.
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‘Real Life’ (1979)
It’s pretty easy to call Real Life ahead of its time, since it does an excellent job of poking fun at reality TV quite a while before reality TV, as it’s currently understood/defined, was a thing. Well, okay, its premise was a way to parody a documentary series from the 1970s called An American Family, but things get pushed further and into more ridiculous territory in Real Life, which makes it feel weirdly in line with what reality TV would become by the time the 21st century had begun.
Because of that, you don’t even have to be familiar with An American Family to find humor in Real Life. It’s farcical and does a great job at pitting a ceaselessly ambitious filmmaker against a seemingly normal family, the members of whom are slowly driven mad by what he wants from a project that involves documenting their lives. It’s still genuinely very funny and up there among the most underrated comedies of all time, so it’s certainly deserving of more attention/acclaim nowadays.
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‘Crab Goalkeeper’ (2006)
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There is a movie called Crab Goalkeeper, and what else do you need? Just watch it. It’s about a crab who aspires to play soccer, or football if you want to call it that, specifically in the goalkeeper position, as the title makes very clear. Again, that title is all you need. This is a sports movie that plays most of the conventions of the sports genre straight, but the main character is a giant crab.
The film writes itself. Crab Goalkeeper has one joke that it milks for 92 minutes, but thankfully, that joke is sufficiently strong and genuinely never gets old. There’s an absurdism and a sincerity to Crab Goalkeeper that is hard to resist. It’s transcendental cinema or it’s about as transcendental as cinema gets when you’ve got a budget of about $7.20. And you had the crab costume on hand in this hypothetical situation. That crab costume looks like it cost at least $6.70. We can’t exactly go nearly doubling the budget in one fell swoop now, can we?
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‘Windy City Heat’ (2003)
Like Crab Goalkeeper, there’s one main joke to be found throughout Windy City Heat, but it’s a great one. Basically, the entire film is an extended prank – or a series of pranks – on a man named Perry Caravello who longs to be a famous actor but doesn’t really have the people skills nor the acting skills to pull it off. His so-called friends convince him he’s the star of a movie and it’s just an excuse to humiliate him all for the purposes of “making” a “movie.”
Caravello isn’t exactly very sympathetic throughout Windy City Heat which does make the act of laughing at some of his misery a little easier to handle.
Which sounds like it’s in bad taste and maybe it is, but Caravello isn’t exactly sympathetic throughout which does make the act of laughing at some of his misery a little easier to handle. Well, your mileage may vary. Windy City Heat is incredibly funny if you’re willing to find it funny but no hard feelings if it’s a bridge too far taste-wise.
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‘Two Hands’ (1999)
The best-known Heath Ledger movie of 1999 is 10 Things I Hate About You, which is kind of the one that helped make him a star, but just as worthy of attention is the slightly smaller – and overall grittier – Two Hands. This one does count as a comedy of sorts albeit not as breezy a one as 10 Things I Hate About You was since that film was a rom-com and Two Hands is more of a darkly comedic crime movie.
Also, Two Hands feels a tiny bit like an early Guy Ritchie movie with its tone style and characters, and the plot here involves a young man on the run from some gangsters and a couple of younger kids who find the money that’s gone missing (the money that’s put the protagonist in trouble with those aforementioned gangsters). Two Hands moves well feels pretty cleverly made and is honestly very overlooked overall being one of the best movies Ledger starred in during his tragically short acting career.
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‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ (2022)
Even though some of his movies are very well known (see those that make up theBefore trilogy as well as the famously ambitiousBoyhood),Richard Linklater continues to feel largely underappreciated.
Like,Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood,Hit ManandNouvelle Vaguewere all very good and easy to like but never quite made the impact you might’ve expected any of them to make.
Anyway,Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhoodis probably the funniest of the bunch so that’s why that particular coming-of-age animated movie is being highlighted here,but this spot could’ve gone toHit ManorNouvelle Vagueas well
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‘The Funeral’ (1984)
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