Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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Space Chimps (2008)
4.5/10
Director: Kirk De Micco
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Cheryl Hines,...
Fun computer-animated sci-fi tale focuses on Ham III (voiced by Andy Samberg) - the grandson of the first chimpanzee ever sent into space - who gets c... Read more
Space Dogs: Adventure To The Moon (2014)
3.8/10
Starring: Alicia Silverstone
Get ready to blast off to an out-of-this-world adventure with canine teenage astronaut, Pushok, who is determined to find his missing astronaut father... Read more
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
4.4/10
Director: Malcolm D Lee
Starring: LeBron James, Sonequa Martin-Green, Xosha Roquemore, Wood Harris
A rogue artificial intelligence kidnaps the son of famed basketball player LeBron James, who then has to work with Bugs Bunny to win a basketball game... Read more
Space Station 76 (2014)
4.9/10
Director: Jack Plotnick
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Matt Bomer, Marisa Coughlan, Jerry O'Connell, Keir Du...
Welcome to a 1970s version of the future, where the pants are wide, the music is groovy, and the new frontier is interplanetary. When a new assistant... Read more
Spaceballs (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patt...
The Farce will be with you in this outrageously hilarious send-up of epic sci-fi movies, created by comic genius Mel Brooks. Boasting a cast of cosmic... Read more
Spaced (1999)
8.6/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, Nick Frost, Mark Heap, Bill Bailey
Friends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford. Read more
Spanish Fly (1976)
4.9/10
Director: Bob Kellett
Starring: Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Frank Thornton, Graham Armitage, Nadiuska
Leslie Phillips is the debonair Mike Scott who visits Menorca to arrange a series of glamourous photo shoots. After arriving he meets up with an old... Read more
Sparkle (2007)
6.1/10
Director: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
Starring: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head, Bob Hoskins, Lesley Manville, John...
An appealing British comedy with a fun concept, a witty script and an uplifting ending, from the writers of 'Lawless Heart'. Sam is a Northerner who d... Read more
Special (2006)
6.9/10
Director: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore
Starring: Michael Rapaport, Paul Blackthorne, Josh Peck, Robert Baker, Jack Kehler, Alexan...
Les leads an uninspiring life, doing little more than eating, sleeping, working, and reading comic books. That is until he decides to volunteer as a t... Read more
Speed Dating (2006)
4.9/10
Director: Tony Herbert
Starring: Hugh O'Conor, Flora Montgomery, Don Wycherley
Tony Herbert's comedic thriller concerns a man who has inherited millions and decides to end his lonesomeness through speed dating, a process whereby... Read more