Comedies

Between the two Hangover movies, star Ed Helms took a solo stab at comedy with the early 2011 release Cedar Rapids, a movie about a naively innocent insurance salesman who travels out of state for the first time to an insurance seminar, where he gets himself into a variety of absurd situations. Cedar Rapids is a mildly amusing comedy that never quite finds its footing.

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Of all the movies I watched at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) this year, none was more rewarding than Salvation Boulevard, the agnostic comedy starring Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brsonan, Marisa Tomei, Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris. A lighthearted, offbeat laugh fest, the movie wasn’t as awarding as the experience, that of being crammed into a theater full of atheists who relate all too well to the jokes on display.

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The second animated film of 2010 to feature a goofy super villain as the protagonist, Megamind‘s fall release appeared to be too little, too late, despite starring the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Brad Pitt. Thankfully, the DreamWorks Animation comedy is significantly different than Despicable Me, much closer to The Incredibles in tone and delivery.

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My experience at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) has been pretty hit-or-miss, though it’s trending in the right direction. Of the five movies I’ve seen thus far, the first three were wastes of time, so much so that they’ve marred my entire experience.

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Just Go With It debuts on DVD and Blu-Ray June 7, 2011! We’re giving away the Just Go With It DVD, as well as other goodies.

Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) meets the girl of his dreams (Brooklyn Decker) but has to enlist his loyal assistant Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his soon-to-be ex-wife in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine’s kids become involved, and everyone heads off to Hawaii for a ridiculous, out-of-control weekend that tests the limits of how far we’ll go for love.

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Natalie Portman. Friend with benefits. Yes, please. Ashton Kutcher, same arrangement. I’ll pass. The same goes for No Strings Attached, a harmless but utterly forgettable romantic comedy starring the Oscar winner and winning replacement for Charlie Sheen.

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In Super, the unbelievable happens: Dwight Schrute becomes a badass. After his wife is taken by a group of drug dealing gangsters, a God-fearing man named Frank (Rainn Wilson) dons the alter ego of the Crimson Bolt to take down crime once and for all. He joins forces with sidekick Bolty, played by a spandex-clad Ellen Page.

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To start off this movie review in the same way that countless others have, the wolfpack is back in The Hangover Part II! This go-around, Phil, Stu and Alan wake up in Bangkok, shaved, tattooed and missing Stu’s soon-to-be brother-in-law. The expected hijinks ensue – and by “expected” I mean exactly the same – but The Hangover Part II is still an entertaining, albeit not nearly as funny follow-up to the hit comedy.

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It took me a long time to finally come around to seeing the first Kung Fu Panda.  Not sure what my hesitation was, but when I finally saw the film I was pleasantly surprised.  The first film sported beautiful animation, great voice performances and an animated script that actually made me laugh.

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If a tree falls in a forest and no one’s around, does it make a sound? If Captain Jack Sparrow returns in a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, does anyone care? And most importantly, with most of the original cast gone and a new director, is it any good? The answer to the latter is ‘not very’, as Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides looks nice but lacks the energy of the previous entries.

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Johnny Depp is often praised as one of the best actors working today. And he is. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t make a few stinkers here and there. In fact, as his popularity has risen the quality of his movies have decreased dramatically, primarily thanks to his unholy union with Tim Burton.

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Why should men have all the fun? Featuring an almost entirely female cast, Bridesmaids does what few comedies have done before: it delivers a story both about and for women, but with all the R-rated, raunchy and hilarious jokes typically seen in guy’s films. Bridesmaids is the funniest movie of the year.

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