It’s fitting that Ozzy Osbourne and his family have a cameo in this third installment in Mike Myers’ spy-spoof franchise. Like the comedian’s randy hero, they went from being a highly entertaining curiosity to haunting my every waking moment. The frequently flat Goldmember showcases little of the original film’s scattershot brilliance, existing only as further

To say that Steve Martin does justice to the Pink Panther film series here is not to say that you should drop everything and watch Martin’s update. Director Blake Edwards’ original films, with Peter Sellers defining the role of inept French police officer Inspector Clouseau, aimed for inspired silliness but were more often than not

I don’t think Vince Vaughn stops talking at any point throughout Wedding Crashers – and that includes the scenes he isn’t even in. Thank goodness, otherwise this would be just another romantic comedy piffle. Vaughn and Owen Wilson play friends who crash nuptial events to take advantage of women who are “aroused by the very

Another inconsequential comedy from “Friends” star Matthew Perry, this time with Bruce Willis as a hit man who moves next door to Perry’s uptight dentist. Only the boundless enthusiasm of then-newcomer Amanda Peet, as the dentist’s assistant and an aspiring assassin, makes the movie bearable.

Consider this to be 2004’s Heathers, the 1989 touchstone for all movies about high school cliques. It’s not a rip-off but a timely variation – so attuned to the nuances of the teenage world of its time, for girls in particular, that its emotional accuracy qualifies as brilliance. Lindsay Lohan stars as a homeschooled girl

More id insanity from director David O. Russell (Spanking the Monkey), who wrote and directed this wild farce about a neurotic new father (Ben Stiller, in one of his defining early roles) who drags his wife (Patricia Arquette) on a cross-country search for his birth parents. Along for the ride is the severely unstable adoption

All of writer-director Wes Anderson’s droll comedies revolve around a club of some sort – from the inept robbers of Bottle Rocket to the family of former geniuses in The Royal Tenenbaums – and this effort is no different, as Bill Murray plays a reckless oceanographer leading his crew on a disastrous expedition. For all

Nobody expresses flabbergasted fluster with as much deranged gusto as Ben Stiller, and he gets plenty of chances to do just that here as a boyfriend (and male nurse) looking to impress his girlfriend’s father (Robert De Niro). If the Academy Awards weren’t too snooty to recognize comedic talent, this breezy, riotous comedy would have