Comedy Movie: Brides Maids

Bridesmaids

Special Features

Feature Commentary with Director Paul Feig, Co-Writer Annie Mumolo, and Cast Members Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Ellie Kemper
Gag Reel
Line-O-Rama
Deleted Scenes
Extended & Alternate Scenes
Cholodecki's Commercial

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Editorial Reviews

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The delightful Kristen Wiig, who's shone in dozens of supporting roles and on Saturday Night Live, hits a bull's-eye with her first lead role in Bridesmaids. Annie (Wiig) isn't doing so well; her bakery failed and she keeps sleeping with a good-looking louse (Jon Hamm, Mad Men), but she's always had her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph, Away We Go) to buoy her up… until Lillian gets engaged. Annie becomes maid of honor, but another friend of Lillian's--the rich and lovely Helen (Rose Byrne, Get Him to the Greek)--wants to take over that position. Misadventures with bad Brazilian food, dress fittings, an unfortunate flight to Vegas, and a sympathetic traffic cop (Chris O'Dowd from British TV comedy The IT Crowd) follow, with increasingly hilarious results. Bridesmaids successfully balances raunchy comedy and character portrait. The embarrassing and socially catastrophic stuff, which in too many movies balloons into absurdity, is here kept in check just enough to allow Annie and the other characters to be multidimensional people--without the movie losing its comic capacity for cringe. (Actress Melissa McCarthy, of Mike & Molly, works miracles with a character than in most hands would be pure cartoon.) Wiig's enormous appeal keeps Annie sympathetic, even as she becomes more and more of a train wreck. Bridesmaids is both smart and dumb, raunchy and earnest, and altogether enjoyable. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

"Gut-bustingly funny. Bridesmaids gets an A!!!" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) From the producer of Superbad, Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin comes the breakout comedy critics are calling "brazenly hysterical!" (Alynda Wheat, People) Thirty-something Annie (Kristen Wiig) has hit a rough patch but finds her life turned completely upside down when she takes on the Maid of Honor role in her best friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) wedding. In way over her head but determined to succeed, Annie leads a hilarious hodgepodge of bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to the big event. Starring: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Chris O'Dowd, Ellie Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Melissa McCarthy, Matt Lucas, Jill Clayburgh, Rebel Wilson, Michael Hitchcock, Terry Crews, Kali Hawk, Tim Heidecker, Jon Hamm Directed by: Paul Feig

Comedy Movie in the Spotlight - Blazing Saddles

I think this is one of Mel Brooks best movies. It is funny on a different level, and I could easily watch it every day.




Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)

Special Features

• All-new digital transfer and remastered Dolby 5.1 sound
• Scene-specific commentary by director/co-writer Mel Brooks
• Cast/Crew Reunion documentary "Back in the Saddle"
• Excerpt of "Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn Remembers"
• "Black Bart" 1975 TV Pilot that inspired the film
• Additional scenes

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Editorial Reviews

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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon

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The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!

Comedy Movie in the Spotlight - Some Like It Hot,

One of my all time favorite comedy movies is the Billy Wilder directed "Some like it Hot". It is one of those movies that makes me laugh no matter how many times I see it.

Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon give wonderful performances.

Awards and honors

According to Wikipedia;

The film was awarded an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Orry-Kelly) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Ted Haworth, Edward G. Boyle), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.[3]
It won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy. Marilyn Monroe won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy, and Jack Lemmon for Best Actor in Musical or Comedy.

The film has been acclaimed worldwide as one of the greatest film comedies ever made. During 1989, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," going in on the first year of voting.
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the eighth greatest comedy film of all time. In 2002, Channel 4 ranked Some Like It Hot as the fifth greatest film ever made in their 100 Greatest Films Poll.

Some Like It Hot (Collector's Edition)

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Product Details
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien
Cast

Marilyn Monroe as 'Sugar' Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis as Joe/"Josephine"/"Junior"
Jack Lemmon as Jerry/"Geraldine"/"Daphne"
George Raft as 'Spats' Colombo
Pat O'Brien as Detective Mulligan
Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III
Nehemiah Persoff as 'Little Bonaparte'
Joan Shawlee as Sweet Sue
Billy Gray as Sig Poliakoff
George E. Stone as 'Toothpick' Charlie
Dave Barry as Beinstock
Mike Mazurki as Spats's henchman
Harry Wilson as Spats's henchman
Beverly Wills as Dolores
Barbara Drew as Nellie
Edward G. Robinson, Jr. as Johnny Paradise

Directors: Billy Wilder
Writers: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, Michael Logan, Robert Thoeren
Producers: Billy Wilder, Doane Harrison, I.A.L. Diamond
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: French (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French

Soundtrack

"I'm Through With Love", by Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Jay Livingston. Performed by Marilyn Monroe.
"I Wanna Be Loved By You", by Bert Kalmar, Herbert Stothart, Harry Ruby. Sung by Monroe.
"Some Like It Hot", by Matty Malneck and I.A.L. Diamond. Performed by Monroe
"Runnin' Wild", by A.H. Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood. Sung by Monroe.
"Down Among the Sheltering Palms", by Olmar-Brockman.
"Sugar Blues", by Williams-Fletcher.
"By the Beautiful Sea", by Harry Carroll, Harold Atteridge.
"Sweet Georgia Brown", by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey.
"La Cumparsita", written by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez.
"Stairway to the Stars", music by Matt Malneck and Frank Signorelli.

We are surrounded... Spaceballs

Spaceballs [Blu-ray]

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Conehead Movie Trailer

Remember when SNL skits could be turned into a reasonably funny movie... I liked the Coneheads skit and thought the movies was funny as well.



Coneheads DVD

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DVD Details

* Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Robert Knott, Jonathan Penner, Whip Hubley
* Directors: Steve Barron
* Writers: Dan Aykroyd, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Tom Davis
* Producers: Barnaby Thompson, Kevin Marcy, Lorne Michaels
* Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
* Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
* Subtitles: English

Airplane! - "Oh stewardess, I speak jive"

When ever I want a good belly laugh, I watch the movie Ariplane. It is just so funny on so many levels. The jokes are none stop, it is like drinking from a water hose.

The two scenes below are just a couple of my favorites from this scene. Wikipedia has a very good write up on the movie Airplane.

Airplane! is a 1980 American comedy film produced, directed, and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. Airplane! starred Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson. For release in Australia, Japan and the Philippines, Airplane! was known as Flying High.

Airplane! is a spoof of the disaster film genre. It was inspired by and includes various lines of dialogue and references to the 1957 film Zero Hour!.

Airplane! - "Oh stewardess, I speak jive"


Airplane! -- the wrong week to quit



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Tropic Thunder gets good reviews.

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Tropic Thunder - Full RedBand Trailer



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The trailer to this movie makes me laugh, so I am sure I will like it when I go and see it. See Stiller triumphs with "Tropic Thunder" for a full review.