Up Front (1951), Tropic Thunder (2008), A Perfect Day (2015), The Goose Steps Out (1942), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), On the Double (1961), Watch Your Stern (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best War Comedy movies.
Storyline: Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus with a barrage of wry comments. On a 3-day pass in Naples, Joe's penchant for wine and women involves the pair with luscious Emi Rosso and her moonshiner father, whose tangled affairs land them in ever deeper trouble.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, world war ii, usa, black and white, military, soldiers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Action movie star Tugg Speedman is on the downslide of his professional career. He wants to be considered a serious actor, but his latest serious role as the title character in "Simple Jack" resulted in negative reviews and ridicule. Comedian Jeff Portnoy is best known for his leading roles in sophomoric comedies, and may be less well known for his rampant drug use. Five time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus is a serious method actor, who immerses himself in whatever the role. On location in southeast Vietnam, they are the stars of "Tropic Thunder", based on Vietnam war veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoirs of his rescue during the war, that rescue which was considered a near suicide mission for the assigned army force and resulted in him losing both hands. For his role, Caucasian Australian Lazarus even went through a controversial surgical skin dying procedure so that he could convincingly play a black man. Production is not going well since rookie director Damien Cockburn is unable to ...
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, war, adventure, satire, hollywood, actors ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of aid workers work to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.
Plot Keywords: war, humanitarian, black comedy, satire, united nations, conflict, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college.—D.Giddings <darren.giddings@newcastle.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, world war ii, spy, british film, black comedy, military, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Topper Harley is found working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA wants him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm. The President is Tug Benson, who also likes to be in on the action. Basically, it's a send-up of all the big shoot-em-up Rambo/Robocop/T2/Commando-type movies.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, parody, military, adventure, humor, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 2003. After careful consideration, Kim Baker, a news copywriter, decides to leave the relative comfort of a New York desk job and serious boyfriend Chris to accept the assignment to work for three months as on-camera reporter in war torn Afghanistan, as her news agency is looking for anyone within their ranks to fill immediately the empty voids overseas. Her only experience of being in such an environment is going through hostile zone training a few years earlier. Immediately upon her arrival in Afghanistan, she realizes that she is ill-prepared emotionally for this assignment, not only enduring the dangers of the war itself, but also the conditions of everyday life, including largely been seen by men as only a "piece of ass" and a distraction despite her being considered average looking back home and not being overtly sexual, and being an individual with a small bladder who is nonetheless told to stay hydrated at all times. She is largely assisted in navigating this new life by Tanya...
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, drama, journalist, culture clash, female lead, based on true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: American GI Ernie Williams (Danny Kaye), admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie (Danny Kaye). Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.—Jerry Milani <jmilani@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, war, spy, military, farce, twins, mistaken identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, black and white film, nautical, farce, 1960s, classic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie features Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men under the inept command of Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody (Michael Crawford). The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make him a poor officer who commands one of the worst units of the Army.—Jenny Evans <J.Evans@uts.edu.au>
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, satire, black comedy, world war ii, british film, anti-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II.
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, military, romance, song and dance, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Richie Lanz (Bill Murray), a has-been rock manager takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan. When Richie finds himself in Kabul, abandoned, penniless and without his U.S. passport, he discovers a young Afghan girl named Salima with an extraordinary voice and manages her through Afghanistan's version of American Idol..
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, adventure, drama, war, musician, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Randall is an Army cadet at West Point. His younger brother Paul is a midshipman at the Naval Academy. John contrives to help Paul's timid romantic interest in Nancy Wayne by pretending to be interested in her himself. Paul, however, takes offense, and determines to beat his brother in the Army-Navy football game on purely personal grounds. Meanwhile, Paul and fellow midshipman Albert Price are hazed and tormented by upperclassmen.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, romance, military, war, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in 1944, Valiant (Ewan McGregor) is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly, but friendly pigeon named Bugsy (Ricky Gervais), who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, family, adventure, war, uk, disney ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The women of a remote Latin American town are forced to pick up the pieces and remake their world when all the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, female-led, small-town life, latin america, gender roles, female empowerment ...
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