Top 10 Movies: Comedy
The highest-graded comedy movies we have reviewed, best first.
The HangoverA comedy built as a detective story, in which the missing person and the suspects are the same four men.Read the review
SuperbadThe last night of a friendship, disguised as a film about buying alcohol for a party.
Tropic ThunderActors making a Vietnam film get dropped into a real war, and the satire lands hardest on the actors.
21 Jump StreetA reboot of a forgotten television show that opens by admitting it is a reboot of a forgotten television show.
Step BrothersTwo grown men share a bunk bed and a drum kit, and the whole thing runs on absolute commitment.
Wedding CrashersTwo hours of the best comic chemistry of the decade, attached to a third act that forgets what it was.
The Other GuysThe funniest buddy-cop parody of its decade, and the only one that ends on a lecture about accounting fraud.
Horrible BossesA mechanical plot rescued by three villains who are visibly having more fun than anyone else on screen.
Pineapple ExpressA stoner comedy shot like a real film, with a great Franco performance and a last act that forgets what movie it is.
Harold & Kumar Go to White CastleA stoner comedy with a surprisingly rigorous structure and two leads nobody else was casting in 2004.
