Snatch (2000), Love on the Run (1936), Crooks in Clover (1963), The Blues Brothers (1980), Bringing Up Baby (1938), And Now for Something Completely Different (1971), Animal Crackers (1930), Ask a Policeman (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Zany movies.
Storyline: The Marx Brothers try and put on a play before their landlord finds out that they have run out of money. To confuse the landlord they pretend that the play's author has contracted some terrible disease and can't be moved. Originally a stage play, the setting shows its origins, but this is vintage Marx Brothers.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, farce, classic, 1930s, black and white, hotel, misunderstanding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Heidi, the star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch, The Walrus, is cheating on her, and with all the world waiting for the show the assorted co-stars must contend with their own problems. These include drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, Drug dealing, and even murder. While this is happening the love between two of the stars is threatened by the devious Trevor the Rat, who wishes to exploit the young starlet for use in his porno movie business.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, absurdist, satire, puppetry, violence, gore, sexual innuendo ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small Midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain's evil plot to kill everyone in town.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, music, friendship, travel, humor, vacation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.
Plot Keywords: existential, comedy, philosophical, drama, quirky, ensemble cast, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The sequel to The Mouse That Roared (1959), the tiny country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in new plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid, as well, to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the Grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try to beat them to the moon.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, political satire, british film, sequel, cold war, space race, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The policeman Dave Speed is assigned to a mission in an ex-Indian reservation near a military shooting range. Casually, Dave is doing an investigation on the spot. A nuclear missile explodes. The radiation gives him superpowers. Dave is able to move object with the mind force, to discover mysterious crimes and to jump with no problem from a skyscraper. His friends cannot understand those transformations.—Tognacci Sebastiano <seblog@maya.dei.unipd.it>
Plot Keywords: comedy, science fiction, action, police, superpowers, 1980s, buddy cop ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon, now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, while the loser will endure a beating at the hands of the champ.
Plot Keywords: comedy, restaurant, competition, pressure, humor, team, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Forty-nine year old Bobby Bowfinger is the owner/president of a Hollywood-based production company, Bowfinger International Pictures. The company has yet to produce a film, Bobby's personal net worth is virtually zero, and the company only has $2,184 to its name, $1 invested into it personally by Bobby every week since he first decided he wanted to make a movie when he was a child. Bobby believes his fortunes will change when his accountant Afrim changes hats and writes a science-fiction alien invasion screenplay that Bobby thinks all studios will clamor for and has Oscar written all over it. He has a small stable of followers who support his vision in being part of this movie, which eventually includes Daisy as the lead actress, she a stereotypical small town girl looking to make it big in Hollywood. Having just arrived in town, she does not know her way around the Hollywood system,... except on her proverbial back. Bobby is not averse to telling bald-faced lies in his singular focus...
Plot Keywords: comedy, hollywood, film production, parody, independent film, scheme, celebrity culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!—Graeme Huggan <hia95gh@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, police, slapstick, franchise, black and white, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.—David S. Smith
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, farce, journalism, circus, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the death of his father the young cooper 'Dennis Cooper' goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster? A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, comedy, adventure, medieval, satire, absurd, dark humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, 2 would-be rockers from San Dimas, California find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, comedy, adventure, time travel, music, nostalgia, sequel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A freak weather system brings in ravenous sharks to munch on hapless New Yorkers and iconic landmarks.
Plot Keywords: disaster, science fiction, horror, comedy, action, b-movie, shark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Henry Wrigley (Richard Hearne) is happy writing stories for a children's' comic. Then he meets Miss Honey (Dame Margaret Rutherford), who encourages him to go into minor crime.
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, crime, family, musical, romance, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this film of unconnected humor sketches, bad movies and late-night television are parodied extensively. A doctor (Griffin Dunne) has to help Brenda (Michelle Pfeiffer) give birth, with unexpected results. In "Son of the Invisible Man," Griffin (Ed Begley Jr.) is actually more naked than invisible. Among the many other segments, there is a spoof of alarmist 1950s hygiene instructional films featuring a woman (Carrie Fisher) being harshly advised about her new sexually transmitted disease.
Plot Keywords: comedy, science fiction, parody, anthology film, humor, absurd, satire ...
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