Noah Baumbach, the writer-director behind scarring snapshots of domestic malaise like The Squid and the Whale, works in a more forgiving register here, expressing enormous compassion for his malcontents, their misery deeply amusing rather than acidic. Stripping away the manic extremes that usually define his onscreen persona, Adam Sandler plays Danny, a sad-sack father reeling from his marriage’s dissolution by moving in with his accomplished, self-absorbed, deeply critical father (Dustin Hoffman), eventually also reconnecting with his far more successful (but by no means happy) half-brother (Ben Stiller). And don’t forget to stay classy, San Diego. (All apologies, Dewey Cox.) Given the high possibility of sidesplitting, you may wanna have a medical professional on hand. Culling this down was a tough call humor is a seriously subjective topic, and every one of our 19 writers weighing in had their own idea of what constitutes “hilarious.” But this list represents the best cross section of screen comedy of our millennium, a collection that runs the gamut from droll to bladder-loosening.Īnd, since we’d originally published this list in early 2018, we’ve updated it and added 20 new entries - including several first-rate comedies that were regrettably left off the list. Or a dozen.Īfter a number of heated arguments and lots of name-calling and the occasional chaotic pie fight, we’ve narrowed down our choices for the greatest comedies of the 21st century. But they’ve all consistently cracked us up, in a two-decade-plus span in which - let’s be honest - we’ve need a laugh or two. Some of these movies have been gently witty, while others have displayed all of the subtlety of a dose of Sex Panther cologne. Since the turn of the century, we’ve giggled at the poignant and the perverse, rom-coms and raunch-coms, new-and-improved takes on singular comic types and loose, highly improvised ensemble pieces that spread the spotlight around. German father-daughter duos and goofy stoners? Bring ’em on! Headbanging teachers and backstabbing bureaucrats? Yes, we’ll take them too. Talking foxes, Huey Lewis-loving serial killers, world-saving marionettes, foulmouthed political fixers and boisterous bridesmaids - all great as well. My kids are so great, normal people – and nobody is like the Hollywood jerk kid.What’s so funny? If you’re talking about screen comedy in the 21st century, the answer is easy: bumbling manchildren, the more boorish and clueless and stuck in their stunted adolescence, the better. I don’t have any like ‘Oh you are the one.’ I don’t have any of that. The ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ star went on to gush over his brood – who range in age from two to 32 – whom he feels “blessed” to be a father to. “The whole idea of being out there and doing three movies a year, that s*** is over … I found over and over again and along the way I realised that if you put your children first you never make a bad decision.” He said: “I am going to be 60 in April and I have all these babies. My relationship with them, and my world revolves around them – even the old, gray bald ones.”Īnd ahead of turning 60 earlier this year, the ‘Nutty Professor’ actor admitted his family were his main focus these days. “The brightest part of my life is my kids. Joking about how many of his kids are now adults but not “old”, he said: “None of my children are gray and balding…
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