Today we talk about the best comedies on Netflix: the streaming giant can in fact count on a catalog of films that is practically endless and between classics of the past, more committed comedies, demented evergreens and quant’other, we are sure that you will find the film for you, to spend a quiet evening at home. Because ok, the lockdown is over, but we have not given up lying on the couch.
Among the best comedy movies made available on Netflix in its catalog we point out The Big Lebowski, a 1998 comedy film shot by Joel Coen, with Jeff Bridges and John Goodman, very funny and really adrenaline, much appreciated by our signatures; then the film with Jim Carrey The Truman Show (USA, 1998) directed by Peter Weir, which received a prestigious rating from our experts; finally, Back to the Future, a 1985 film (science fiction) directed by by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Read down below and see which are the best comedy movies on Netflix.
Best comedies on Netflix
Tall Girl
In Tall Girl the protagonist is convinced that she can only find true love with a peer as tall as her and her dream seems to come true when Stig, a Swedish student who will spend a year in America, appears in her school. The newcomer is the object of the attention of all the girls of the institute, with Kimmy (the most popular of the school and eternal rival of Jodi) who manages to conquer him and become engaged to him. Nevertheless Jodi does not lose heart and, thanks also to the advice of her older sister (beauty queen), she will try in every way to impress Stig, who apparently seems to reciprocate her infatuation. But with the passing of the days, between betrayals and surprising revelations, the situation is destined to take an unexpected turn.
Emma.
Although Jane Austen wrote a novel explicitly focused on persuasion, after all, the whole literature of the English writer revolves around this concept, and Emma is no exception. Orphaned of the mother and daughter of the apprehensive Mr. Woodhouse, the beautiful Emma lives in a comfortable and hyper-protected condition, between picnics, walks and afternoons to take tea. Emma opens with the wedding between Msr. Taylor, housekeeper in the Woodhouse household, and Mr. Weston. The girl boasts that she is the architect of the marriage, and immediately she does her utmost to fix the young Harriet Smith, forgetting herself and not realizing that her brother-in-law George Knightley loves her deeply. Employment free and forced in a timeimmobile, Jane Austen’s heroines always yield to persuasion, understood as the inability to act and think independently. The protagonists of the English writer fall into the traps of a social rigidity that instead wants them to be dependent; a system structured in precise uses and customs from which they always manage to free themselves, awakening from this sort of imposed torpor (here it is the genuine feminism of Austen, always rejecting the comfort of victimization).
Murder Mystery
There are not the usual suspects of the protagonist’s filmography, except for Jennifer Aniston with whom he already starred nine years ago. The two are husband and wife, resident in New York: she is a hairdresser, he is a policeman. After years of broken dreams, he gives her the European holiday she always wanted for her wedding anniversary. However, things do not go according to plan: on the flight they meet the English nobleman Charles Cavendish ( Luke Evans ), who invites them on the yacht of his uncle Malcolm Quince ( Terence Stamp ). The plot of Murder Mystery thickens when he dies in mysterious circumstances, following a dispute related to his will, the two American spouses are forced to flee, blamed for a murder they did not commit, and must discover the identity of the real culprit. But that’s not the only secret that can cause problems: Nick (Sandler) hasn’t gotten the promotion he has been pursuing for some time, and hasn’t yet had the courage to confess it to his wife.
Going in Style
At one point during Going In Style, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin watch Dog Day Afternoon, another film about a dysfunctional bank heist. While it’s never a good idea to quote a film that is much better than the one the audience is watching, the contrast is instructive. While Dog Day is genuine and off-beat, Going In Style couldn’t be more on-beat, a slick, no-surprises studio comedy that doesn’t make the most of its solid premise and star trio.
Uncut Gems
Uncut Diamonds tells the story of Howard Ratner (played by an Adam Sandler never so fit), a Jewish jeweler from Manhattan perpetually in debt due to his gambling addiction. Howard comes into possession of a very rare gem, a very expensive opal that he would like to sell at a high price in an auction to pay off his debts with his brother-in-law Arno, a loan shark. The film, produced by A24 and distributed outside the USA by the Los Gatos web service, is written and directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, New York brothers in their thirties who already wrote the beautiful Good Time, and is a thriller whose rhythm is marked. from the words, from the phone calls of Howard’s acquaintances and from the deadlines that the protagonist is constantly having to respect.
Romantic comedies on Netflix
Baywatch
In Malibu, Mitch Buchannon leads the elite unit of lifeguards dubbed “Baywatch”. The old veteran takes a dim view of the arrival of young and pretentious Matt Brody, a former Olympic swimmer, who has come to strengthen the team. A rivalry arises from the outset between the two men forced by the hierarchy to collaborate. One day, the team receives a distress call from a burning yacht and discovers the lifeless body of the Leeds councilman. While the official autopsy concludes with the accident, Mitch learns that the document was falsified. When a second corpse is found on the beach, Mitch and his team decide to conduct their own investigation…
The Man from Toronto
The Man From Toronto tells the story of the world’s deadliest killer (Woody Harrelson) and New York’s biggest bluff seller, Teddy (Kevin Hart), who are mistaken for each other when the latter takes a cottage via Airbnb with wrong address. Cornered, they find themselves forced to work together to evade a group of assassins charged with killing them. The Man From Toronto is the most watched movie right now on Netflix. It is a fairly flat film from the point of view of the script but which is saved by the enthusiasm of Kevin Hart, who gives his best in comic roles. Hart and Harrelson are men with reputations; Hart’s online gymnastics trainer and accessories salesman, Teddy, is known for his unsuccessful business ventures, such as contactless boxing. So unsuccessful that his name has become a verb for unsuccessful ventures. Harrelson is feared by all in the criminal underground because of the means he uses to kill his enemies.
The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys was an incredibly successful film, entertaining yet hybrid in nature, in which the atmosphere changed continuously and unpredictably, now embracing the genre parody, now the drama, now connecting to the darker crime now to the pulp. In fact, however, the reality is that The Nice Guys was certainly very differentfrom what the general public expected, perhaps also because of the trailer, too light-hearted, when instead Shane Black’s film was certainly much more melancholy and even tragic than the norm.
The Other Guys
Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. A combination that, again, certainly says very little to the Italian public, usually poorly receptive to talented American comedians who, in the face of successes in the motherland, continue to navigate quietly in the waters of the national box office. Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell play a mismatched cop couple. The first all action the second more interested in appearing in the newspapers and his way of dressing than in the shootings.
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
The arrival of Mitchells against the machines on Netflix feels like the detonation of an animated bomb: it’s a delightful, colorful, creative and complete film. In fact, if I were to write a super short review I’d tell you it’s the first major animated film released in 2021. Directed by Mike Rianda and co-directed by Jeff Rowe, the film stars Abbi Jacobson as Katie, a girl who is about to go to college, and Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph and Rianda as her father, mother and younger brother Aaron respectively. All together they organize a trip to accompany her to school. Let’s say the trip was dad’s idea. That tour, however, has an unexpected twist, however, when a robotic uprising threatens the entire human race.
New comedies on Netflix
Do Revenge
Drea ( Camila Mendes ), the protagonist of Do Revenge, the comedy directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, victim of revenge porn, knows very well. The American director, known to the general public for being the screenwriter of Thor: Love and Thunder, chooses to focus on a teenage story made of revenge and recrimination, in an exclusive school attended by young offspring of high society.
The Babysitter
Cole Johnson is what can be called the archetype of the nerd nerd of the 80s, even if The Babysitter is set in recent times. He is neither a baby nor a decerebrate, but in full puberty, in the throes of disproportionate hormonal storms and targeted by neighborhood bullies, Cole does not live his school life in a healthy way, finding only one friend (perhaps more than a friend) in Melanie.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Lara Jean is a shy and reserved teenager, motherless, who died when she was a child. When her older sister decides to move to Scotland, Lara Jean is faced with school reality completely alone for the first time. Her shyness has always kept her from making new friends, with the exception of Josh, her sister’s boyfriend. As if a distant sister wasn’t enough, Lara Jean’s life is suddenly catapulted into the spotlight when some love letters she wrote in her teens come out, and delivered to unsuspecting recipients. Five letters for five crushes at different times in her life. One of the recipients is Josh, the first love (now ex) of Lara Jean’s sister. How to get out of humiliation and prevent her from finding out? The solution comes with the name of Peter Kavinsky, one of the most popular guys in history, with whom Lara Jean will start a fake relationship.
The Kissing Booth
“The kissing Booth 1”, made in 2018, is about two boys (Elle and Lee) born on the same day and in the same hospital. Since their parents are best friends, they decide to continue the “tradition” by forming a strong friendship. To protect their exclusive relationship, they have established rules to respect, among which is the one that prohibits Elle from dating Lee’s brother, Noah, under penalty: the end of their friendship.
Set It Up
The film is set in New York, in one of those beautiful glass buildings in the center, full of nervous business men / women who have sacrificed their private life in favor of success. Success guaranteed to them by young people whose dreams are daily shattered by the hysteria of the bosses and the teasing of colleagues. Harper and Charlie are the personal assistants of two powerful characters who work in the same building. They meet one night, in the lobby, as they struggle to win the dinner that has just been delivered. They will share it and from that moment nothing will be the same. In fact, they will devise an infallible plan to get some coveted free time: to make their leaders fall in love.
Good comedies on Netflix
Dumb and Dumber
The comedy is all on the shoulders of the two protagonists: Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) limo driver and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) dog sitter with an unlikely van, compete to outdo each other in stupidity. The first has love at first sight for the beautiful Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly) who takes him on the roadtowards the Aspen Mountains; the second will act as a traveling companion but will try to awkwardly blow the woman from him. To hold everything together, the thin noir plot of a kidnapping with ransom that ends in farce.
Paddington
Appeared in 1958 in Michael Bond’s cute little books for children, the talking bear who eats delicious orange marmalade spread on sandwiches or stored in glass jars and who travels from “mysterious Peru” to the London station of the same name gains status as an affable protagonist of a very English film, steeped in understatement and affection for customs and habits across the Channel. Clumsy because not accustomed to city life but tender and nice, here Paddington is a puppy in “hair and bones” with the voice of Ben Whishaw to whom one cannot but love.
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
In the beginning it was ABBA, or rather Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid, members of the Swedish quartet who churned out brilliant and catchy songs continuously, without imagining that they would become a cult object and that almost half a century after their formation they would inspire films and musicals. And it is right that the film by David Dobkin, wanted, co-written and starring by Will Ferrell, which tells us The story of the Fire Saga, starts from their victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974., an unlikely (but not too much) duo of Icelandic singers, both orphans of a parent, and both bizarre in their own way, who dream of winning the international competition that for over 60 years has been delighting kitsch lovers (as well as music).
Sorry to Bother You
Because, that Riley is good, as a director and as a screenwriter – think, the story comes directly from the 2012 album of the same name composed by him together with his band, The Coup -, we realize it right away. We have the impression that the story of the protagonist, Cassiuns “Cash” Green, played by Lakeith Stanfield, broke and looking for a job, wants to go somewhere else. A bit like what happens in the incipit of the Simpsons episodes. We start from the effect, we arrive at the cause.
Hustle
For Adam Sandler, the work on Hustle is by no means the same thing, although there are many associations. And not only because the film among the Netflix releases of June 2022 focuses its narration on the world of basketball, but for the opportunity given to viewers to look more on the path taken by the comedian on Netflix. Sandler, in fact, comes after one of the worst films of his career, Hubbie Halloween, also the result of a millionaire contract with the streaming platform that for years has reserved a place in its library for the comedian’s productions, but arrived after a public declaration that he wanted to be engaged in an indecent project, if the performer had not made it to the Academy nomination.
Top comedies on Netflix
Men in black
Since 1962, aliens have transited the Earth under the rigorous supervision of some special 007s – the men in black, in fact – who, if necessary, erase the memory of some witness who has seen their authentic appearance, in order to avoid panic spreading. in the country. However, one of these aliens (Vincent D’Onofrio) would like to blow up the planet and the amount of work for K (Tommy Lee Jones) and the novice J (Will Smith) multiplies dramatically. Based on Lowell Cunningham’s Malibu comic, scripted by Ed Salomon and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Sonnenfeld’s film retains all the smashing humor of the original product, to which are added bursting jokes, mind-boggling special effects and frenetic pace.
Someone Great
The protagonist of Someone Great is Jenny ( Gina Rodriguez ), a nearly 30-year-old New Yorker who aspires to write about music and who one day receives a succulent job offer in San Francisco. Too bad the guy she has had an affair with for nine years doesn’t feel ready to leave New York and, faced with the alternative, prefers to leave her. So Jenny forces her two best friends Blair and Erin to have a good night in New York, and between joints, pills and tequila she will also find time to mature a little and re-read her breakup with her ex in a new light. Blair and Erin will also have to grow up, and in an exact mirror image of each other. Blair ( Brittany Snow) is a blonde without too much personality who is unlikely to be nice as a character, not very funny both in the sober and in the transgressive version; but she at least she will have learned that happiness is worth much more than the myth of perfection.
You’ve Got Mail
20 years ago there were no social networks or apps, Google was just a conglomeration of a few cells and the first mobile phones peeped into our pockets, accompanying our love stories with text messages and rings. Those were the days of chats, noisy 56k modems and emails. It is thanks to the innovative, for the time, way of exchanging letters that Joe (Tom Hans ) and Kathleen (Meg Ryan) begin to get closer and get to know each other and it is precisely that notice “There is mail for you”, so full anxiously awaiting, to give the title to Nora Ephron’s sentimental comedy.
Hail, Caesar!
While the United States is busy with H-bomb experiments on Bikini Atoll, in Hollywood Eddie Mannix has to deal with finding a solution to another kind of problem. Eddie is a fixer, that is, the one who has to keep away from the scandals in which the stars who are working on the films of a large studio go to get stuck. He must then get rid of risqué photos and try to disguise pregnancies out of wedlock. When it happens that the protagonist of a film about Jesus disappears, in the role of a Roman centurion, the situation becomes complicated. Also because he was kidnapped by a group of fervent Communists. There are very few active directors with a solid knowledge of all film genres and their evolution over the history of cinema. The Coen brothers are rightfully part of this small circle. Their further advantage is that of knowing how to decline them according to readings ranging from intellectual drama to the most brilliant comedy.
Yes God Yes
When you make a movie like Yes, God, Yes the message you want to send is quite clear: in 2020 it is time to say goodbye to certain prejudices about sex and masturbation, with a particular eye to the female world too often mistreated from this point. of sight. The Church inevitably plays a fundamental role in issues of this type and, in particular, in the film itself: in Yes, God, Yes the protagonist played by Natalia Dyer in fact experiences the discovery of her sexuality with no little apprehension as opposed to the rules imposed by the his way of living being a believer.
Comedies on Netflix 2021
He’s All That
Time to remake for the world of streaming, not only with the title arriving on Cinderella’s Prime Video, but also on Netflix there is no left behind on this front, proposing from August 27 He’s all that, a contemporary and decidedly glossy reinterpretation of the film of over twenty years ago, Kiss me ( She’s All That in original). If the film of the time had a cast composed of faces mostly unknown to the general public, with the exception of the late Paul Walker, this re-release does not rise to greater levels of notoriety and brings to our screens a decidedly sparkling teen drama, but at times superficial.
Yes Day
In the wake of the children’s novel of the same name by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld, Miguel Arteta directs Yes Day, a family comedy that makes laughter its catalyst of energy. Yes Day is an opportunity to realize how important it is to cultivate human relationships, how necessary it is to get away from technology and rediscover the value of an afternoon spent to find oneself. ” It feels great when you give in to just saying yes “, a yes that does not mean fulfilling unrealizable desires, rather giving exclusive “time”, regardless of the age of a child.
Last Looks
The protagonists of the film are Charlie Hunnam in the role of Charlie Waldo and Mel Gibson in those of Alastair Pinch. With them are Morena Baccarin as Lorena Nascimento, Lucy Fry as Jayne White, Rupert Friend as Wilson Sikorsky, Dominic Monaghan as Warren Gomes, Jacob Scipio as Don Q, Clancy Brown as Big Jim Cuppy, Paul Ben-Victor as Pete Conady and Method Man as Swag Dogggg. Waldo’s release was announced for February 4, 2022. The film is about Charlie Waldo, a brilliant former Los Angeles cop who now lives a life of simplicity and solitude in the woods. Alastair Pinchinstead he is an eccentric actor who spends his days drunk on the set of his TV show. When Pinch’s wife is found dead, he becomes the prime suspect and Waldo is convinced to investigate what happened. He will find himself grappling with gangsters, Hollywood producers and kindergarten teachers, all ready to redeem Pinch’s name.
Wish Dragon
Taking a cue from the fairy tale The Thousand and One Nights that raised us with the myth of the genie of the lamp and the unwary Aladin, in The Dragon of Desires we explore the traditions and symbolism of the oriental world through the figure of a mysterious dragon. The dragon, in oriental culture, represents the wisdom and acuteness guarded by the ancient spirits, guardian of magic and sacredness of the past that manifests itself on earth to counter superstitions and popular beliefs.
More the Merrier
A couple caught up in routine, a young man disappointed by his last love story, a desperate girlfriend, two cousins separated since their last summer in town, a group of friends wanting to experiment. For one night, everyone will experience crazy situations in which they would never have thought of finding themselves, to end up, the next morning, in the best possible way…
