Category: Comedy
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You’re Being Summoned, Azazel-san (2011): Demons Turned into Adult Comedy
You’re Being Summoned, Azazel-san is the kind of anime that earns its appeal by being consistently ridiculous. Its crude humor and adult content will not suit everyone, but both are central to…
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Zookeeper (2011): Choosing the Work That Truly Suits You
Zookeeper is a light romantic comedy built around two choices: whom to love and what kind of life to pursue. Griffin spends much of the film trying to win back Stephanie, the…
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Meet Dave (2008): A Comedy Built on a Wonderfully Strange Idea
This is a genuinely entertaining comedy. Some comedy films, especially more recent ones, can become surprisingly serious or feel more like dramas. But a comedy should, above all, be fun—and this movie…
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007): A Straightforward Comedy That Delivers Plenty of Laughs
This is another straightforward comedy that is clearly designed to make the audience laugh. By a straightforward comedy, I mean the kind of movie that does not need to be complicated or…
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Vacation (2015): The Kind of Comedy That Actually Makes You Laugh
Vacation is the kind of comedy that commits fully to making its audience laugh. The story follows Rusty Griswold as he takes his wife and two sons on a cross-country journey to…
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Bedtime Stories (2008): Disney Fantasy Meets Adam Sandler Comedy
Bedtime Stories brings Walt Disney Pictures and Adam Sandler together. Disney’s family-friendly fantasy meets Sandler’s familiar style of comedy, and that pairing alone makes it interesting to see how the two styles…