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Title: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 09, 2026, 04:30:02 PM
We have this wonderful thread here of thrillers and horror movies and i love that stuff so much..i do love movies so much and another big passion of mine, as a collector, is also comedy, satire, grotesque funny stupid movies and storys that make me laugh. But with everything thing in life, different beings different tastes..So feel free to post some stuff that makes you laugh or smile or grin, there are lots of different tastes out there...

I start this with the most recent experience...yesterday i watched the first episode of

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I know the books and i have seen another series about Dirk Gently, with Elijah Wood, i think it's fromm BBC America, whatever that means, saw that some years ago and it's also worth a look, found it very good.


Douglas Adams with the Hitchikers Guide (42..and 7 Times Video;-) has made one of the funniest novels i've ever read and of course we have to feature the old BBC series here and the movie, very funny stuff, so my expectations were high on how the series is dealing with that king of special humor.

After 20mins, sitting alone on my couch watching with interest, i had to laugh out loud..very good first episode, looking forward to see more the next days.

The next one is a classic, one of the most insane movies or comedys i know (well, there are maany more..), i watched it recently again with a person who didn't know it and i noticed again, how insane, overacted, overproduced and through all that, how overwhelming this one can be, but i love and can laugh at it every time i see it.

If you haven't seen it yet and want to have your brain overworked by so much going on on the screen, go and watch

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Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Guillaume on January 09, 2026, 05:02:51 PM
"Top secret" (ZAZ)
"The naked gun" (ZAZ)
"The man with two brains' (Carl Reiner)
"Dirty rotten scoundrels" (Frank Oz)
'A fish called Wanda" (Charles Crichton) 
"Les compères" (Francis Veber)
"Les fugitifs" (Francis Veber)
"La chèvre" (Francis Veber)
"Game night" (Daley/Goldstein)

are funny films for me! I like some of Steve Martin's comedies, the ZAZ movies, the french comic actors Pierre Richard and Eric (Judor) & Ramzy (Bédia).
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 09, 2026, 05:31:11 PM
Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker..fanfaboloustastic! Top Secret!..the scene shot in reverse acting, in the book store is a masterpiece!

The Naked Gun series is a must watch if you like the movies. There are so much more mindbloggling funny scenes there. Which brings me to Leslie Nielsen. His acting alone is just funny and i also love most of Mel Brooks movies and there is this one Dracula film by Mel starring Leslie which i also like very much.

When you mention Carl Reiner, he also did a very cool, funny one with Steve Martin: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid..and i think you will know it.
It's in b/w and it's combining old movie scenes with new ones. A must see for film noir fans..and stupid comedy..

I must google your french ones..Is Game Night that one with Will Farrell?

I also love Pierre Richard and Louis Defunes and i think i will remember some more funny good french productions. And of course the britisch have a good taste in humor and history of satire movies.
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Guillaume on January 09, 2026, 06:13:03 PM
Top Secret!..the scene shot in reverse acting, in the book store is a masterpiece!

Yes! So many crazy scenes in this film, unbelievable! It's the ZAZ masterpiece!

The Naked Gun series is a must watch if you like the movies. There are so much more mindbloggling funny scenes there. Which brings me to Leslie Nielsen. His acting alone is just funny and i also love most of Mel Brooks movies and there is this one Dracula film by Mel starring Leslie which i also like very much.

I've heard good things about the TV series "Naked Gun," I really should watch it; I think it's available in a french DVD box set. As for the films, the first one stands out for me, even though there were some funny moments in the two sequels and also the recent remake/reboot with Liam Neeson replacing Leslie Nielsen. I'd like to see Mel Brooks' "Dracula"; he's directed some good comedies, like "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles." I almost forgot "Amazon Women on the Moon" and "Kentucky Fried Movie" by John Landis/ZAZ...very funny!


When you mention Carl Reiner, he also did a very cool, funny one with Steve Martin: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid..and i think you will know it.
It's in b/w and it's combining old movie scenes with new ones. A must see for film noir fans..and stupid comedy..

Yes, "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is very good, both a great Steve Martin film and a beautiful homage to film noir. Other Steve Martin films I can recommend are "Roxanne," "Bowfinger," "L.A. Story," "The Jerk," "Looney Tunes: Back in Action," and, though not a comedy this one: "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk." I'd also like to see "Pennies from Heaven" (starring Steve Martin but also Jessica Harper and Christopher Walken) and "All of Me." (in fact i've seen it in the 80's but i have too vague memories )


I must google your french ones..Is Game Night that one with Will Farrell?

I'm not sure "Game night" is the original title but it's the french (!!) title. It's a comedy starring the excellent Rachel McAdams.

Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 11, 2026, 02:44:02 PM
Bowfinger is really funny and for me it's the best role Eddy Murphy has ever done.This movie is hilarious. So this shady producer is trying to make a sci-fi movie and is using the paranoia of a Hollywood star and using a lookalike (both roles played by Eddy) to tell the story. So they confront the Star in public while filming him secretly, using costumes and strange encounters..

Pennys from Heaven is on my wannahave list, i just love musicals and i remember it as a very good movie. But i watched it decades ago...I only find a dvd release, but i want this in better quality. There is a dance scene, well there are many dance secenes, it's a musical;-) done by Christopher Walken and it stuck in my head, so that's the main reason for me to get this movie and see it again.
Remember him dancing in this video..was it moby? He can dance very well..

Young Frankenstein, Blazzing Saddles, High Anxiety, The Producers, Silent Movie are classics and i love them all.

Another great director with classic comedic movies is John Landis. Think his most famous one would be An American Werewolf in London..masterpiece. Dark and ugly humor, a must see.

He also did a very fine movie called: Into the Night with Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer..don't know how to call it, a romantic comedy? But it's more than that..
And let's not forget: Schlock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ADsQs1hjU

When i wrote that 1941 is the most insane picture, that was a lie!
It's: Hellzapoppin'
This is from 1941 and it's a movie within a movie doing a theater show..or something like that. It has so many visual jokes, fantastic set pieces, musical scenes, almost every second is filled with madness. A must see if you like ZAZ movies...

Talking about madness and weirdnes..i recommend:
P.Tintos Miracle

Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Winterwulf on January 12, 2026, 08:23:29 PM
With Rob Reiner's tragic demise at the end of last year, I'll throw two of his into the pool - firstly, "This is Spinal Tap", magnificently skewering the stupidity and pretension of so much rock music, and a good one to play "guess which band this actually happened to" when watching.
Secondly, "The Princess Bride", not a laugh-out loud film but full of great witty lines. Oh, and for a tenuous NMA link, the scene where Buttercup pushes the Dread Pirate Roberts down the steep slope and discovers he's actually Wesley was filmed round the back of Peak Cavern in Cavedale.
That then brings to mind another film Cary Elwes starred in, namely "Men in Tights" - a bit patchy but with some good moments, and my favourite line from him "Unlike some Robin Hoods I could mention, I have an English accent!"
Linking on from that of course, there's Alan Rickman's magnificently OTT pantomime villan performance as the Sherrif of Nottingham - I've heard rumours of the existence of a director's cut of "Robin Hood" where he stole the show even more, but after Costner threw a tantrum we ended up with the release version...
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 13, 2026, 02:47:51 PM
Very good additions here Winterwolf! This is Spinal Tab..essential! I'll just quote "11"  ;)

And a very cool information about The Princess Bride. Love that movie, it's fantastic. I'm glad that i have read the novel when i was really young. It blew my mind, because it's a novel within a novel and some parts were displayed in red letters, it was almost a cinematic reading. And i must say it is, just due to the nature of the different medium, much more suspensful and there are so many plot-twists in there and things you just don't expect to happen.

Wanna throw in here some kung-fu comedy masterpieces:

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This movie is ridiculously funny. I saw that for the first time at a festival and literally fell from my seat, while gasping for air while laughing. Steve Oedekerk bought the rights to an old movie and overdubbed it and also filled it with scenes. You have to see to believe...

(https://i.postimg.cc/QMnjbNfr/kung-pow.jpg)


Then we have two more from a gifted director and actor Stephen Chow:

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This one has a also great story and the fighting scenes and action sequences are superb. And it's really funny.

An older one by him, also highly recommended:

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(Maybe i should work on the picture sizes..)

Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Guillaume on January 13, 2026, 07:55:55 PM
Remember him dancing in this video..was it moby? He can dance very well.


Christopher Walken is a great actor (fabulous in "The Dead Zone" and "At Close Range," among others). I remember him doing some dance moves in the excellent "King of New York." And Walken also dances very well to the lovely song "Jesse" by Larkin Poe!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEpGkxNKKM&list=RDdmEpGkxNKKM&start_radio=1


Bowfinger is really funny and for me it's the best role Eddy Murphy has ever done.This movie is hilarious.

It makes me want to watch it again! I haven't seen it in years, but I remember quite a few very funny scenes between Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy (who is indeed hilarious in this film), and Heather Graham. The scene where they ask Eddie Murphy to cross the highway because it's safe—stuntmen are driving!—the scene in the parking lot (I think), or the prestigious premiere of the sci-fi film "Chubby Rain"!...lots of funny moments, an underrated film. John Landis's films with Eddie Murphy are good too, "Trading Places" and "Coming to America."

Another great director with classic comedic movies is John Landis. Think his most famous one would be An American Werewolf in London..masterpiece. Dark and ugly humor, a must see.

He also did a very fine movie called: Into the Night with Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer..don't know how to call it, a romantic comedy? But it's more than that.

I generally like what Landis does, but I was a bit put off by "Into the Night" back then. I should rewatch it, especially since I like this director, as well as Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer... For something with a similar sleepwalking atmosphere, I preferred Scorsese's "After Hours" at the time. Of Landis's work, I like his most recent film to date, "Burke and Hare," and also "Amazon Women on the Moon," "Schlock," and "The Kentucky Fried Movie"... all funny films. I also recommend the little-known "Innocent Blood," a successful blend of gangster film and horror, starring our very own Anne "Nikita" Parillaud as a charming vampire! But for me, Landis' masterpiece will forever remain "An American Werewolf in London," simply one of my favorite films, a perfect balance between horror, terror, (bitter) laughter, and drama (the ending is very beautiful and very sad)...a masterpiece!


With Rob Reiner's tragic demise at the end of last year, I'll throw two of his into the pool - firstly, "This is Spinal Tap", magnificently skewering the stupidity and pretension of so much rock music, and a good one to play "guess which band this actually happened to" when watching.

I haven't seen it in years, but I remember it as a very funny film. As an aside, when I showed it to a friend in the early 2000s who was a heavy metal and rock fan, he initially thought it was a real documentary about a real band! Haha. That just goes to show how accurately Reiner captured the stupidity of quite a few bands (but not NMA, thank goodness!). Have you seen the sequel to SPINAL TAP that came out last year? It's Rob Reiner's latest film... I also have fond memories of THE SURE THING by him, and MISERY is a very effective thriller, with masterful performances from Kathy Bates and James Caan.







Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 14, 2026, 12:21:16 PM
Remember him dancing in this video..was it moby? He can dance very well.


Christopher Walken is a great actor (fabulous in "The Dead Zone" and "At Close Range," among others). I remember him doing some dance moves in the excellent "King of New York." And Walken also dances very well to the lovely song "Jesse" by Larkin Poe!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEpGkxNKKM&list=RDdmEpGkxNKKM&start_radio=1



Ha, ha, what the heck is this?? I know that you love Larkin Poe, but this video you posted is a ..don't know what to say. They used the footage from the video i was referring to, it is was not Moby but Fatboy Slim:

Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8&list=RDwCDIYvFmgW8&start_radio=1


I don't like the video you posted (only the video, not your post). It makes the dancing out of sync, no rhythm and by that it looses its power and meaning and also by that, the song also looses its power, imho.
But a nice try, i would say..don't get the idea though.

Thinking about funny movies is great i notice...little therapy in there right now...so i want to post some more maybe darker stuff..

Kevin Smith - DOGMA
This has many known actors in it: Salma Hayek, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Florentino, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock...but it tested the taste of the mainstream in those days and it managed to produce some scandal..blasphemous! Saw it again some montha ago, after looking for a release for years and had to get an old dvd. But it is still great and works well and i hope that the time passed will give green light for a new release, it's totally worth it. Funny as hell;-)

Anders Thomas Jensen - Adams æbler
(Adams Apples)

This is a very funny and very dark danish movie and he made at least two more dark, very very funny depressing good movies, also starring Mads Mikkelsen
Dänische Delikatessen (i think its "The Green Butchers" in english) and  Men & Chicken
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Winterwulf on January 14, 2026, 04:04:37 PM
Just thought of another two for the list, from Peter Jackson in his pre-"Lord of the Rings" days. Firstly, there's "Bad Taste" his low budget horror comedy about aliens landing on Earth and killing people for meat for the interstellar fast food franchise, classic line is "I'm a Derek - Dereks don't run away", classic shot  is where a bazooka gets fired at the house the aliens are holed up but they open the front and back doors so the rocket instead hits an unfortunate sheep grazing out the back.

Then there's "Meet the Feebles" - imagine the Muppet  Show redone with buckets full of sex, drugs and violence, need I say any more?
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 15, 2026, 02:37:20 PM
Oh dear, both of those are infamous and i've been looking for a proper release since VHS times. I love those movies, but they are really not for the fainted and Bad Taste is program for both. I've got both Soundtracks and got a Meet the Feebles T-Shirt with Heidi and a huuuge Machine Gun on it...

I was really impressed by Bad Taste and i think it's an outstanding work. Kind of like The Evil Dead, one of my alltime favourite movies. Peter Jackson and his friends worked on Bad Taste for more than 4 years, while having normal jobs and doing it for fun.

Meet the Feebles is even better, the Muppets are amazing and the humor is just sick;-) I saw a movie, maybe a year ago, a new one, also with muppets and bad taste hunor, but it just didn't feel right. It felt like they wanted to offend so hard whereas Meet the Feebles is just Meet the Feebles...know what i mean? But i think in that newer one there was also Frank Oz involved but anyway..
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 25, 2026, 03:38:58 PM
The Magic Christian

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I wouldn't say this is a good or very funny movie, but it is definately an oddity. Ringo Starr is a very bad actor and the whole movie feels a bit pretentious.


Freaked

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This one i haven't seen in ages, but i remember it as a blast for me. A massive intro with soundtrack by Henry Rollins..oh no, just read that it was done by Blind Idiot God with Henry Rollins!!
Listen here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P2swKzaS8Y

And i just found finally a bluray release and i hope it will arrive the next days..

Idiocracy

(https://i.postimg.cc/Y0QQZhL7/pixelboxx-mss-66848278.webp)

If you haven't watched it yet, go watch it. It's hilarious..but it sadly has become a documentary...



Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Winterwulf on January 26, 2026, 08:25:20 PM
Mention of dodgy Peter Sellers films has reminded me of another one that is rather frowned on these days, "The Party". He browned up to play a hapless Indian actor who causes chaos at the post-filming party, hence why it's a bit problematic  but it does have a classic visual gag  - at one point, in the toilet he tries to pull some toilet paper off one of those big rolls, and the whole thing slowly unravels onto the floor while he stands and watches.
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 27, 2026, 11:10:01 AM
I love The Party. The first scene on the Set of that big Movie Production with him playing the trumpet ;) ;D ;D and the need to tie his shoe lace...great! The slowly escalation at the party and the total chaos that erupts, the running gags..i can watch this endlessly laughing.

That brings me to another masterpiece and also an escalating story, a wonderful masterpiece of movie making, a timless classic, one of my all time favourites:

Playtime - by Jaques Tati from 1967

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(https://i.postimg.cc/j5dqRR5q/playtime-tatis-herrliche-zeiten.jpg)

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Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Ghosttrain on January 27, 2026, 01:20:40 PM
I love Jacques TATI the man was a genius (imho)my favourite TATI films in order are..

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

Mon Oncle

Playtime

Traffic
Have been watching these films for years ......love them...
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 28, 2026, 02:45:10 PM
He was a genius and all his movies are wonderful. Kind of a sad story though that he went bankrupt producing Playtime, because he made all the costly descisions to get his vision on film, like choosing 70mm Film and a very sophisticated 6 channel sound design, not to mention the huge sets being build and he backed it up with his private money and also house i think.
Love all his movies very much the same but my order would be:

Playtime
Trafic
Mon Oncle
Jour de Fete
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Parade

Would be a dream for me to see Playtime in a cinema on 70mm with the 6-channel sound.
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Ghosttrain on January 28, 2026, 03:50:25 PM
I have never seen Parade....will investigate . saw Jour De Fete many years ago ....shall revisit it again..
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Ghosttrain on January 28, 2026, 07:07:36 PM
Have done some research on Parade...............jury still out....however have ordered Jour De Fete on DVD...
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on January 30, 2026, 12:39:41 PM
Parade i've only seen once, it's nice and charming and has some great funny scenes in it, but for me it's not a "movie". It is a filmed circus show with Tati or Hulot as the Director in the manege or doing sketches and scenes. Worth watching but not comparable to the movies. Think you will have a great time rewatching jour de fete. It has some special energy in the acting and therefore the action, because Francois, the bicycle-postman, is a total different character than Hulot, who is more observing and subtle.
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Ghosttrain on January 30, 2026, 07:29:16 PM
Thank you for your reply i think you sum up Parade perfectly and agree with everything you say,i had read about the film and from the verry little avail. i have seen on YouTube it does appear  as you say a series of sketches more than an actual film........i may have to buy it to complete the set...........

Scrub that thought ...............just checked it out on Amazon DVD @ £44.99 ......thanks but no thanks........
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Ghosttrain on February 04, 2026, 03:47:06 PM
Have just watched Jour De Fete..........wonderful.......
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Master Ray on February 04, 2026, 08:20:00 PM

OK, I've been trying to think of some comedy movies that are a bit 'under the radar' whether that be from being a huge box office flop, badly distributed or just terribly unfashionable and worth of reappraisal...

Firstly 'Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story'.  This one utterly bombed but it might be the funniest film I've seen this decade, a brilliant parody of rock biopics, taking aim at all the clichés of those films and a gag-per-minute ratio as high as anything like airplane or The Naked Gun.  Too many hilarious scenes to name but I did love the bit where 'Dewey' meets The Beatles...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g_xaVNY9P4

As opposed to that, 'Four Lions' is one of the darkest comedies imaginable yet still manages to have so many big laughs.  A British comedy about suicide bombers, big recipe for laughs, right?  And yet it isn't really political... it's just a movie about some deeply incompetent men who are handed a job and just **** it up throughout.  It's from Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye), one of my comedy heroes, and I've never seen a movie about a disturbing concept that effortlessly flips between 'chilling' and 'LOL'... and I include 'Doctor Strangelove' in that.  Here's the trailer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-SrlQ9tlI

My third and last choice is my very, very favourite film of all time,  'Local Hero', another UK film concerning a man from a big US oil company who is sent to buy up a whole village in Scotland to turn it into an oil refinery... and then falls in love with the place and its people and doesn't want to see it ended... I won't say any more than that before it's gets somewhat more complicated after that. It's a warm and lovely hug of a movie with some great characters, maybe not a relentless laugh-fest but with plenty of chuckles and one that'll make you feel better after watching it.  And such a brilliant soundtrack by Mark Knopfler.  Here's the trailer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nufb3JysCgY

I'm sure I'll think of a few more soon...
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Ghosttrain on February 05, 2026, 10:55:36 AM
Totally agree with Walk Hard........excellent film ,i have it on DVD and love it.......
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on February 05, 2026, 05:31:42 PM
I also totally agree with what MR said about Walk Hard, being the funniest Film i've seen in a decade. I've stumbled upon it because of Judd Apatow being a producer and John C. Reilly as the main actor and it's so much more than i thought it was. I hadn't seen Walk The Line, the biopic about Johnny Cash and i still haven't, but expected it to be a spoof of that Film and i found it is so much more. Apatow has produced, written and directed many movies that hit my humour nerve and so i went for it. It is more a display of the music business in general and stardom problems, don't know how to describe it properly, but there are so many hints and hommages to the history of music, just wonderful. And all the songs and music performed in the story, the life of Dewy Cox, are just fantastic and funny and well performed. MR mentioned the Beatles showing up and then there is also this brilliant, funny scene about Brian Wilson loosing his mind while recording Pet Sounds. There is so much depht in it, if you know some of the storys...

And i also agree about Four Lions...hard to imagine a movie like this being made in these times we have now.

Local Hero has been on my wanttowatch list for a long time, haven't seen it yet and but it now also reminds me about another wanttowatch movie i haven't seen, The Long Good Friday:
Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is a businessman with great ambitions. Spotting the development potential of London s derelict Docklands area years before the Thatcher government, he tries to broker a deal with his American counterpart (Eddie Constantine) that will make them both millions. But who is killing Harold s other associates and blowing up his businesses and why?
Sound slike a kind of similar storyline, but as a thriller, so this one will be for the other thread ;-)

Another comedy movie i love is Superbad
This one also surprised me totally for being not that what i thought it was. I thought it is a stereotype screwball comedy, but the humour and wit in there is just out of range, the acting and performances and the story is just...funny! 

Have just watched Jour De Fete..........wonderful.......
It's a great, great one! I wonder if you would update your list? I know, and i love all of Tati's movies, that a list is almost impossible to do...but now that you've seen it again..? ;-)
 
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Ghosttrain on February 05, 2026, 07:05:43 PM
List update Jour de Fete in after Playtime and  before Traffic..........
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: Master Ray on February 05, 2026, 08:32:58 PM
cthulhu, The Long Good Friday might also be on my fave movies EVER list... possibly the best British gangster film ever.

And Superbad is, indeed, a very very funny film...
Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on February 06, 2026, 08:13:18 AM
cthulhu, The Long Good Friday might also be on my fave movies EVER list... possibly the best British gangster film ever.

And Superbad is, indeed, a very very funny film...
Just found a different edition of The Long Good Friday for a good price and ordered it...


Some more strange, funny, maybe unknown movies:

Le grand soir - by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern from 2012
The film tells the story of 2 brothers. One punk, one salesman. The salesman get laid off, and slowly becomes a punk like his brother.

(https://i.postimg.cc/P5mfN18y/916E3Fm-SNFL-SY445.jpg)

The Punk brother in this movie calls himself: Not  ;D


Crimen ferpecto - by Álex de la Iglesia from 2004

(https://i.postimg.cc/1tSvs11v/MV5BN2Iz-NWVm-ZGMt-MGE2ZC00NTcy-LWJm-N2Ut-Zj-I5Zjhi-Mzhh-ZTU1Xk-Ey-Xk-Fqc-Gc-V1-QL75-UY281-CR4-0-190.jpg)

Dark also stupid and very funny..



The Science of Sleep - by Michel Gondry from 2006

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A very very beautiful, surreal and funny love story and an exploration of subconsciousness..
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Post by: Winterwulf on February 06, 2026, 03:38:39 PM
"The Long Good Friday" is definitely worth watching, though it's not a film that belongs in this thread given how bleak it is - it does capture the grottiness and general run-down feeling of late 1970s Britain very well, and "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" does owe a big debt to it, though the humour and ending in that one does make for a very different type of film.

Going back to funny films, how's about  Weird Al Yankovic's cult classic "UHF" - that's one I thoroughly enjoyed.
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Post by: cthulhu on February 06, 2026, 06:27:13 PM
Yeah, U.H.F is a great parodie movie and so funny, love that very much. Totally over the edge and silly, great timing, cool music parodie videos..Dire Straits Money fo Nothing/Berverly Hillbillies...and all the movie parodies...made a picture from my mediabook

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And the Rambo parodie is so excellently done, the special effects/the mask is a masterpiece and this could never have been achieved with cgi.


If you liked Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas by Terry Gilliam from 1998, you must check out:

Where the Buffalo Roam
- by Art Linson 1980

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The film was scored by Neil Young, who sings the opening theme, "Home on the Range" (from which the film derives its title), accompanied by a harmonica. Variations on "Home on the Range" are played by Young on electric guitar as "Ode to Wild Bill" and by an orchestra with arrangements by David Blumberg on "Buffalo Stomp". Music in the film included rock and R&B songs by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Temptations, the Four Tops and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Additionally, characters played by Bill Murray and René Auberjonois sing lyrics from "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Because of the high cost of music licensing, most VHS and all DVD releases retained only the Neil Young score and the Creedence song "Keep on Chooglin'", with the rest of the music replaced by generic approximations of the original songs. The choice of songs for the DVD version was somewhat anachronistic, featuring 1980s-style songs in a 1960s and 1970s setting.

In 2017, Shout! Factory released a Blu-ray edition restoring the original songs, making this the first home media version since the original VHS release to feature a completely unaltered soundtrack.
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Post by: Winterwulf on February 08, 2026, 08:31:30 PM
Thinking about cult comedy films with great soundtracks, there's one comes to mind - "Restless Natives".  Great Scottish film from the mid-1980s, quite a few well--known actors with cameos in it (Billy Connoly, Mel Smith, and Bernard Hill)  with a wonderful soundtrack from Big Country, but thanks to legal squabbles over the rights it was all but impossible to find for years. I think it has finally had a DVD release though!!
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Post by: Master Ray on February 08, 2026, 10:55:40 PM
Thinking about cult comedy films with great soundtracks, there's one comes to mind - "Restless Natives".  Great Scottish film from the mid-1980s, quite a few well--known actors with cameos in it (Billy Connoly, Mel Smith, and Bernard Hill)  with a wonderful soundtrack from Big Country, but thanks to legal squabbles over the rights it was all but impossible to find for years. I think it has finally had a DVD release though!!

Terrific film!
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Post by: Winterwulf on February 09, 2026, 08:36:13 PM
Some years ago I came across live footage on YouTube of Big Country playing the title track of the soundtrack live, someone had left a funny but plaintive comment on it - "God, if we give you Bono, can we have Stuart Adamson back?". If only...
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Post by: cthulhu on February 10, 2026, 05:34:31 AM
Thinking about cult comedy films with great soundtracks, there's one comes to mind - "Restless Natives".  Great Scottish film from the mid-1980s, quite a few well--known actors with cameos in it (Billy Connoly, Mel Smith, and Bernard Hill)  with a wonderful soundtrack from Big Country, but thanks to legal squabbles over the rights it was all but impossible to find for years. I think it has finally had a DVD release though!!

Terrific film!

Sounds very promising and appealing to me, so i had a lookout for a release and found a dvd for 10€ and also a bluray but more than double the price. Went for the dvd this time and looking forward to it big time!
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Post by: Winterwulf on February 13, 2026, 08:53:18 PM
I know Cheech & Chong's stoner comedy isn't to everyone's taste but "Up In Smoke" has its moments. I've always loved the bit at the start where Cheech wakes up, seriously hungover, with his nephews and nieces making a racket in the house and staggers into the bathroom. He leans against the wall, starts to empty his bladder, then opens one eye and sees the toilet next to him, looks down and realises he's pissing in the laundry basket...
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Post by: cthulhu on February 15, 2026, 11:04:05 AM
..i immediately have to think about the cockroach-pipe scene ;D..
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Post by: cthulhu on February 17, 2026, 01:58:05 PM
Steve Oedekerk has already been mentioned here with his mindblowing visionary approach of " i buy the rights to an unknown 70's cheap kung-fu flick and overdub it all alone with some extra scenes" that made the masterpiece of Kung Pow, but he is also very famous for his outstanding work-cycle of thumbating old classics. Before James Cameron revolutionized cinema with new digital techniques Steve Oedekerk invented the Thumbation process.
These are his Masterpieces:

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I find these so funny and great to watch. There's lots of lovingly detail in the production, it can be sometimes almost a too silly performance but the look of everything is just funny itself.

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And here we have Gabba The Butt
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The next one is very funny at times, but also can be scary, confusing, is totally suprising and also very tenseful...yes, it is ;-) I love the pace of that movie, the first three minutes give you a glimpse of what is to come, if you like the start then you will be up for some surprises.
It is a low budget movie and you can see it in the sfx, but i love that style, the story is insane and the actors are fantastic. It is directed by Don Coscarelli, maybe some of you know him because of his Phantasm series...
This one you should really just watch without knowing more about it...(but it also still works the 23rd time..)

John Dies at the End
- by Don Coscarelli, 2013

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Title: Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
Post by: cthulhu on February 24, 2026, 03:15:18 PM
The glory of ordering-too-much-stuff-simultaniously-unconsciously-and-forgetting-about-it: Two movies got in on the same day and i watched them both on one day and had a great time, thanks to your recommendations.

First i watched Restless Natives, never had heard of it before and found it to be a very charming, soulfull work of art with a punk attitude, meaning most of them learned to make a movie by doing it. And they did very well! Watching the making-of-documentary was also very interesting, the collaboration with Big Country...

Then i watched Local Hero and found it to be a lovely comedy, beautiful to watch and without big dramas unfolding but a constant developing of the characters and relationships and many funny moments.