The Naked Gun (1988, 1991, 1994, 2025)
The Naked Gun is the spoof comedy franchise that defined what the genre could be at its highest level. David Zucker directed the first three films.
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ComedyYoung Frankenstein (1974) Review
Young Frankenstein is one of the great American comedies and the highest achievement in Mel Brooks's filmography. Mel Brooks directed and cowrote the screenplay with Gene Wilder.
AnimatedThe Shrek Franchise (2001-2022) Review
The Shrek franchise consists of six feature productions across approximately twenty-one years of continuous DreamWorks production. The 2001 original is one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century and the production that established DreamWorks Animation as…
ComedyMonty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) Review
The Monty Python troupe consisted of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Brian's mother Mandy reveals that his father was actually a Roman soldier instead of the family's claimed Jewish parentage.
ComedyMonty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Review
The statement is defensible. The musicians needed tax shelters.
ComedyBedazzled (1967 / 2000), Contrast Review
The Bedazzled property exists in two substantial film adaptations across approximately thirty-three years. The 1967 British production directed by Stanley.
ComedyAirplane! (1980) Review
is one of the great American comedies of all time and one of the most substantial parody films in commercial cinema history. The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker collaborative team had been working substantially in comedy production before Airplane!.
ActionRoboCop (1987) Review
RoboCop is a better film than its premise suggests and a more subversive one than its marketing implied. Paul Verhoeven made a corporate satire inside a violent action film, and the two registers enhance each other instead of competing.
ActionThe Running Man (1987) Review
The Running Man is a better idea than film. The concept, a death sport television show operating as the primary mechanism of social control in a dystopia.