If you’ve exhausted your go-to list of reliable comedies, there’s hope: Netflix has a steady flow of classics and contemporary hits, including a handful of originals. Check out 11 of the funniest movies currently streaming on the service.
The minds behind 2019’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse have another winningly irreverent animated film on tap. The slightly-dysfunctional Mitchell family has to contend with technology gone awry. To save the human race, they’ll have to interrupt their vacation.
Reese Witherspoon turns in a star-making performance as Elle Woods, a sorority girl who finds herself a fish out of water in law school in the hopes of winning her boyfriend back.
Before Robert De Niro entered the comedic phase of his career in the 1990s, he got a crash course with Charles Grodin in this action-comedy classic. As bounty hunter Jack Walsh, De Niro is tasked with escorting mob accountant Jonathan Mardukas (Grodin) to Los Angeles, with the mafia and FBI close behind them.
The movie that launched a thousand increasingly grating catchphrases is still the best spy spoof of them all. Mike Myers finds his ’60s swinger cryogenically frozen and emerging in the 1990s, anachronistic attitudes in tow.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson send up the ’70s cop drama with a perm, lots of oversized sweaters, and Snoop Dogg as informant Huggy Bear.
Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series of the same name offers a unique bit of wish fulfillment as the young, decidedly immature Mr. Pilgrim (Michael Cera) gets to wrestle, quite literally, with the romantic history of his would-be partner—rollerblading dream girl Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). From Chris Evans to Kieran Culkin to Brie Larson, the casting choices offer an embarrassment of riches, while each new showdown—peppered with an exhilarating blitz of pop culture references—shepherds young Scott ever closer to the woman he thinks he loves, and of course, a few important life lessons of his own.
Richard Curtis’s story of a young man named Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) who discovers he can travel through time offers an often extremely funny but beautifully bittersweet tribute to the special, meaningful, and always too-short time we get to spend with the ones we love. If anyone could make a lovesick boy turn down an invitation to Margot Robbie’s hotel room, it’s a delightfully daffy Rachel McAdams, with whom Tim builds a beautifully messy life. But it’s his relationship with his father James (Bill Nighy) that truly teaches him how to experience and appreciate each moment with friends and family for how precious they are, with or without magical abilities.
The ever-reliable Paul Rudd stars in this amiable indie film about a writer who takes on a side hustle as a caregiver for a teen (Craig Roberts) with muscular dystrophy. Lessons are naturally learned, but it’s also a prime example of the affability that’s made Rudd one of the more pleasant screen actors of the past two decades.
Armando Iannucci never pulls punches in his political satires, from The Thick of It to In the Loop to Veep. This slightly off-the-radar comedy is no exception, depicting the ferocious, petulant battle for power that ensues after, well, the death of Joseph Stalin. As the most politically overt film on this list of winners, it offers some insights to more than a few recent parallels in world events—a bonus to some, but too close to reality for others—but it also delivers a merciless takedown of world leaders and the sniveling, manipulative sycophants who all seem destined to destroy themselves as they claim the fleeting, fragile power they crave.
Eddie Murphy returned to form with this funny and moving biopic of Rudy Ray Moore, a struggling stand-up comic in the 1970s who finds his big break as Dolemite, a butt-kicking alter ego that became the subject of Moore’s low-budget film debut. After years spent in the kiddie pool of family comedies, it’s nice to see Murphy embrace the edge that made his name.
Ali Wong was already a treasure as a stand-up, but this romantic comedy cemented her unique, irresistible charms, playing a celebrity chef reconnecting as an adult with her childhood crush (played by Randall Park). The cultural specificities of a largely Asian-led cast and crew give the film a decidedly different flavor than others, even as those details underscore the universality of its ultimate truths. Meanwhile, Internet Boyfriend Keanu Reeves plays himself as a love interest for Wong’s character, offering some truly choice lines to replay for those eager to hear the actor whisper sweet nothings in their ear.
A version of this story ran in 2020; it has been updated for 2021.
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