Comedy
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the comedy genre, which concerns things that are funny or things that seemingly attempt to be funny.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Yeah, I don’t have to think twice about it: Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the best animated family movies ever made. First of all, the stop motion is fantastic and total eye candy, much better than garbage CG. Second, the script is surprisingly down-to-earth and finds that awkwardness in real-life that probably isn’t what… (read more)
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
An overtly sultry, affectionate tribute to several significant scenes of pop culture: horror and science fiction B-movies and—my favorite—glam rock. Tim Curry steals the show as Dr. Frank N. Furter. It’s impossible to keep your eyes off him—for many reasons. Songs are inconsistent in quality and sound too alike, often making them forgettable, and the… (read more)
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Wild at Heart
While this David Lynch film is a complete mess, if you’re able to embrace its blatant stupidity you’ll find Wild at Heart to be a fun, innocent, and unique comedy. Some of the absurdity and use of violence as comedy makes me think of this as some kind of proto-Tarantino. Even still, many attempts at… (read more)
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Brazil
Terry Gilliam’s dystopian fantasy world of 1985’s ‘Brazil’ imaginatively (and humorously) satirizes the nightmares of bureaucratic capitalism. (read more)
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Airplane!
Airplane!‘s renown lies in its unwavering assault of joke-a-second puns and absurdities, bringing slapstick and screwball comedies of the era it parodies to their (il)logical conclusions. However, it’s still the extremity of a frequently trite form of comedy. Airplane! never builds on itself like character-driven comedies and their potential intricacies. It’s an assault of stones… (read more)
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Amélie
The romance of France blooms alive when paired with the bright pastel colors and the light, string-heavy score of Yann Tiersen, but Amélie herself is quite unlikable. Audrey Tautou’s awkward movements are all with self-satisfied intent, each flick of the wrist coming across as planned instead of natural. It’s no surprise, then, that Amélie managed… (read more)
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Most of Stanley Kubrick‘s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is still funny, but there are several long segments that are just incredibly boring, silly shit and the same run-on gags, like the aircraft scenes. It’s also natural to be disappointed at the lack of the iconic titular… (read more)
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Pulp Fiction
There’s no great mystery to the appeal of Pulp Fiction, at least to me. It’s just thoroughly sidesplitting, endlessly grinning entertainment. That is, I giggle like a little schoolgirl the entire way through it no matter how many times I see it. Every second demands attention, it’s just got some unseen, unaware power to it.… (read more)
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The Blues Brothers
Seriously way too fucking long, and for a comedy, The Blues Brothers isn’t very funny. Disappointing as a musical, as the choreography and shots are average with dancers randomly out of frame, not to mention the songs are just the same old renditions of classic blues songs we’ve all heard hundreds of times without any… (read more)
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American Psycho
American Psycho is clever and hilarious, one of the most shocking and original comedies out there. The social commentary is shallow and it’s a little awkward in the rare moments where the movie tries to be more than a comedy (like the ending). But for the most part American Psycho is so simultaneously funny and… (read more)