Click (2006)

Comedy Rated PG-13

Adam Sandler will never be confused with Jimmy Stewart, but he wouldn’t mind at all if you confused Click with It’s a Wonderful Life. That’s the model for this high-concept comedy, in which an overworked father of two receives an all-powerful remote control that allows him to pause and rewind his life. When he hits

Nacho Libre (2006)

Comedy Rated PG

With this comedy about a friar at a Mexican orphanage who dreams of success in that country’s wild world of lucha Libre wrestling, writer-director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and star Jack Black (School of Rock) create another enviable loser – you know, the kind of social reject so comfortable in his eccentricities that he’s not

You, Me and Dupree (2006)

Comedy Rated PG-13

Far more nimble than its setup suggests, You, Me and Dupree skips around from subtle character comedy to silly slapstick to all-out farce. Owen Wilson continues to coast on his dippy charm as a perpetual screw-up who ‘temporarily’ moves in with his best friend (Matt Dillon) and his new wife (Kate Hudson). The sibling directing

American Wedding (2003)

Comedy Rated R

Like someone smacking the bottom of an empty ketchup bottle, American Wedding tries its best to force one last picture out of the American Pie series. For the marriage of Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), most of their friends and family – as well as the prevalent gross-out humor and occasional sweetness of

America’s Sweethearts (2001)

Comedy Rated PG-13

An uneasy mixture of self-love and self-loathing, this would-be Hollywood satire – about an estranged movie-star couple (John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones) who try to remain civil while promoting their last joint project – wants to make fun of the celebrity characters even as it fawns over them. Nearly everyone in the top-heavy cast, which

Analyze That (2002)

Comedy Rated R

Like its underachieving predecessor, Analyze That is just funny enough to make you realize how much funnier it should be. Billy Crystal’s shrink and Robert De Niro’s conflicted mob boss are reunited, but this time for contrived shenanigans rather than counseling sessions. If you like your laughs to feel prescribed rather than inspired, the doctor

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Comedy Rated PG-13

Co-writer and star Will Ferrell gets his own playground with this portrait of a 1970s news anchor, and he delivers what may be his definitive pompous dimwit. It’s often hysterical, if still a one-note role compared to his tragic clown in Old School. Burgundy is more of a living one-liner. With hilarious support from Steve

Be Cool (2005)

Comedy Rated PG-13

The irony undermining this sequel to Get Shorty, both of which are based on Elmore Leonard novels, is that you can’t be cool on demand. You either are or you aren’t. Of the ensemble cast to this cartoonish crime flick, set amid the L.A. music business, only returning star John Travolta, The Rock and Cedric

Bubble Boy (2001)

Comedy Rated PG-13

An exercise in absurd silliness, Bubble Boy follows a young man with an immunodeficiency disorder traveling across the country to stop the wedding of his one true love. Some people – most of whom hadn’t seen the movie – protested that Bubble Boy makes fun of such a disease. But if you’re in the mood

Dukes of Hazzard, The (2005)

Comedy Rated PG-13

At what point does a piece of pop culture become worthless? After the initial television series, followed by TV movies, video games, a Jessica Simpson music video and now this timid feature, The Dukes of Hazzard has run its course. Trying to have fun watching this incarnation is like trying to resuscitate a corpse that