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17.12.10 # Movie Releases # 87 CommentsZookeeper
Starring: Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Sly Stallone (voice), Adam Sandler (voice)
Director: Frank Coraci
Release Date: 1st July 2011
Zoo animals break their code of silence to help their zookeeper (Kevin James) win back the woman of his dreams. Teaching him their methods of dating and mating will be Sylvester Stallone as a lion, Adam Sandler as a monkey, Jon Favreau as a bear, Cher as a giraffe, and Judd Apatow (?!) as an elephant. From the director behind The Wedding Singer, Click and The Waterboy. Sounds fun, sort of, wish it wasn’t Kevin James in the lead.
[Critics - 14%] [Public - 4.4/10] = {Ranked: 4th Worst}
Horrible Bosses
Starring: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston
Director: Seth Gordon
Release Date: 29th July 2011
Three friends (Bateman, Sudeikis, Day) conspire to murder their awful bosses (Aniston, Spacey, Colin Farrell) when they realise they are standing in the way of their happiness. To do this they enlist the help of a ‘murder consultant’ in a bar called Motherfu*ker Jones (Jamie Foxx). Hollywood doesn’t tend to do well at ‘let’s bump someone off’ comedy because it’s inherently a dark concept, but the cast is good and the script is reportedly strong. The director made the much-loved documentary King Of Kong.
[Critics - 69%] [Public - 7.1/10] = {Ranked: 8th Best}
Attack The Block
Starring: John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost
Director: Joe Cornish
Release Date: 29th July 2011
[Critics - 90%] [Public - 6.7/10] = {Ranked: 3rd Best}
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Starring: Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Analeigh Tipton
Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Release Date: 29nd July 2011
A happily married family man (Carell) is shocked when his wife (Moore) asks for a divorce. Now he’s trying to manage the relationship with his kids and finds himself thrust back onto the dating scene, where he finds himself so deeply uncool he has to enlist the help of a stylish life coach (Gosling). The directors of I Love You Phillip Morris (who wrote Bad Santa before that) should bring something subversive and entertaining to the marital crisis material.
[Critics - 78%] [Public - 7.5/10] = {Ranked: 4th Best}
The Change-Up
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde, Leslie Mann, Alan Arkin
Director: David Dobkin
Release Date: 5th August 2011
A married guy (Bateman) switches bodies with his best friend (Reynolds) in order to woo his co-worker. It’s not clear yet how he does this. There’s also some connection to baseball as they’ve been filming at a stadium and a ‘changeup’ is a type of pitch in baseball. Director David Dobkin made Wedding Crashers, then came a bit unstuck with Fred Claus. Body swap comedies always seem so… done. You either like Ryan Reynolds, or you don’t.
[Critics - 24%] [Public - 6.5/10] = {Ranked: 9th Worst}
Your Highness, 30 Minutes or Less and The Muppets are my top three most anticipated I guess. Hopefully one of the ones not on my radar will surprise me though.
Most of em look funny. Hangover 2 would probably be my top pick.
yeah man,hangover 2 it ROCKS!!!!:)
I didn’t think hangover 2 is really that good hangover 1 is the best one out of the two
hangover 2 is really funny.. you might also want to watch hall pass..
You forgot to list Just Go With It.
Didn’t forget, it’s in the 2011 Romantic / Romantic Comedies list. Seemed to fit better there.
Muppets, Hobo With A Shotgun and Paul are my top 3. The Johnny English sequel is my potential guilty pleasure.
The only ones that look funny to me are those that I enjoyed other movies in the line. Namely Paul, adore Simon Pegg, The Muppets, and Harold and Kumar. Of course they could disappoint and be nothing like past movies. Overall it seems like sad sequels and formula movies that will make 2011 ‘s comedy movies the same as every other year. Universal themes are a good thing, but beating a knackered horse just gets old.
Johnny English sequel, can’t wait. The first was great.
OMG!!! i can’t wait for the hangover 2..i wanna c it soo bad(((:
The first hangover was definitely a laugh! Hangover partII is a must see, can’t wait to watch it #BP
I’ve seen hangover 2…its too joke’zz ,ove itt !!!
2011 comedy movies I want to see more than anything: Muppets + Harold & Kumar 3.
comedy movies aren’t all that good anymore, just full of cheesy lines fueled by profanity and nothing more than sexual promiscuity that ranges from stupid and unrealistic ideas about relationships to gross, and…well more gross. My point is if you look at past films such as Dumb and Dumber- there’s probably many others- you’ll realize that creativity isn’t what it always used to be.
I’m not saying some comedy films aren’t funny, I’m just saying that they lack ‘originality’, that something SPECIAL that makes you laugh and wonder at how funny silliness and humor can be without resolving to FOUL MOUTH AND PLAY with…well GROSS, since every other film is like that anyway. Just my opinion, Later!
Every era has had its terrible comedy movies, what happens is time filters out the best and the rest ‘vanish’. So it may seem like there was a decade of high quality, with, say, Airplane and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but it’s just that all of the other terrible movies from then are no longer available.
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 3D will rock all movies of comedy in 2011
My top looks like this:
* Hangover 2
* Hall Pass
* Your Highness
* The Muppets
* Cedar Rapids
* Larry Crowne
Hall Pass, Take Me Home Tonight, and Your Highness, but Paul is up there too. For me anyway.
Haha all comedies up until hangover 2 have bombed. So much for 2011 being the year of comedy.
just go wit it is cool and hall pass
horrible bosses was my favorite comedy movie of 2011 so far. your highness and bridesmaids were also great. looking forward to 30 minutes or less and the muppets
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