Comedy Reviews

Comedy

American Wedding (2003)

American Wedding (2003)

I don’t know what it is about Seann William Scott, but I find him endlessly entertaining. Movies, talk shows, doesn’t matter. He just makes me laugh. A lot. And...

Vickie
Freaky Friday (2003)

Freaky Friday (2003)

That’s what I kept thinking all through this smart, spirited, updated remake of the 1976 Disney classic based on the book by Mary Rodgers. The body-switcheroo story finds stressed-out...

Linda
Bad Boys II (2003)

Bad Boys II (2003)

Hot women in skimpy clothes? Profanity? More explosions? More gun fights? Lots and lots and lots of initially cool but quickly tiresome and unnecessary slo-mo shots? Then, my friend,...

Vickie
Watching You: Intriguing Lesbian Short Films (2003)

Watching You: Intriguing Lesbian Short Films (2003)

Maybe the filmmakers have to build up to making a laugh out loud feature, but I have to say that several of the shorts on this DVD collection of...

Linda
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)

Raising Victor Vargas (2002)

Please ignore the fact this film has an instantly forgettable, cookie-cutter title. Disregard the pleasant but vague poster. Get over the fact that you will not recognize a single...

Linda
Britney, Baby, One More Time!

Britney, Baby, One More Time! (2002)

A filmmaker named “Dude” Schmitz (Mark Borchardt, of American Movie) and his crew (yep, including Mark’s buddy Mike Schank) get thrown out of a Britney Spears concert for asking...

Eric
Down with Love (2003)

Down With Love (2003)

Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor) is, as we’re reminded more than once during this delightfully winning comedy, a ladies’ man, man’s man, man about town. He’s a hotshot writer for...

Linda
A Mighty Wind (2003)

A Mighty Wind (2003)

The team that brought us the dog-show farce Best in Show and the small-town-puts-on-a-musical spoof Waiting for Guffman now turn their mockumentary eye on folk music. Not just folk...

Linda
Anger Management (2003)

Anger Management (2003)

Normally, I fall into the former group but, sadly, my normally affectionate allegiance to the guy who introduced the world to Billy Madison wasn’t enough to make me enjoy...

Vickie
Adaptation (2002)

Adaptation (2002)

I’m not really sure how to approach a review of Adaptation, only because even now—some five and a half days after seeing it—I’m still not sure what I thought....

Vickie
Shanghai Knights (2003)

Shanghai Knights (2003)

Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan reprise their roles from the hit Shanghai Noon, as ladies’ man cowboy Roy O’Bannon and former Chinese Imperial guard, now Old West sheriff, Chon...

Linda
Catch Me if You Can (2002)

Catch Me if You Can (2002)

Catch Me tells the so-unbelievable-it-can-only-be-true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. (the eternally youthful Leonardo DiCaprio) a con man of the highest caliber, who happened to pull his greatest scams...

Linda