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Tag: Comedy

Monkey Business (1931)

Comedy Rated NR

…allows for a welcome bit of personal space between the audience and the comedians’ antics.

Animal Crackers (1930)

Comedy Rated NR

What’s most evident, however, is the raging egomania at the center of the brothers’ comedy – Groucho in particular.

Cooley High (1975)

Comedy Rated PG

“balances youthful optimism and adult reality.”

This is 40 (2012)

Comedy Rated R

"…an irate rant masquerading as a cute family project."

Campaign, The (2012)

Comedy Rated R

“You may think things go over the top, but keep in mind The Campaign is competing with a real world in which a married politician tweets a picture of his crotch.

Ted (2012)

Comedy Rated R

"Wahlberg once again shows a knack for comic timing, especially in his scenes with the CGI bear."

21 Jump Street (2012)

Comedy Rated R

Well, how about that? It isn’t terrible! That was the general reaction to this big-screen adaptation of the 1980s television series about narcs going undercover in high school, and I’d concur. Other reviewers went further and cited it as one of the year’s top comedies, but for me that would require the ratio of d*@k

Casa de mi Padre (2012)

Comedy Rated R

“If it sounds Spanish, man, that’s what it is. A Spanish movie.” Or is it? That’s the opening voiceover narration to Casa de mi Padre, a Spanish-language comic-melodrama influenced by Mexican telenovelas, Spaghetti Westerns, grindhouse gore and Will Ferrell farces. The one thing it isn’t, actually, is Spanish. So let’s just say this: Casa de

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

Comedy Rated R

"…aspires mostly to nonchalance."

Dictator, The (2012)

Comedy Rated R

“A missed opportunity of global proportions.

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