Ok Mr. High & Mighty... enlighten us. You call us out for liking the highly successful (and damn funny) films of the year, and you seem to have this impeccable taste in comedies, yet you give us no examples of which movies are worthy to be deemed the best of the year.

Agreed. I don't totally base my movie-going on the trailers, but every now and then there are trailers so bad that I can't imagine anyone wanting to see the film. The Love Guru was one of those. It was beyond awful. I can't fathom how anyone not related to Michael Meyers would desire to see it. You couldn't pay me to see it. No one I knew thought the trailer looked even remotely funny.

You twenty or so people who admitted seeing this film, why? Did you all lose bets?

Haven't seen Love Guru, and I probably will not.

Mad Money - Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes. AWFUL.

Witless Protection - Larry the Cable Guy. Lame, but a couple of mildly funny gags.

I think the hype around it ruined it. Before I saw it, I heard everyone saying it was the greatest comedy in years so I went in with high expectations. I thought it was just ok.

I'm pretty sure he was taking people to task for saying that Tropic Thunder, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Pineapple Express were the worst comedies of the year. That's what the thread is about after all.

Hamlet 2 is a film consisting of lots of great ideas just scattered all over the place with a director and writer not knowing what to do with them and not trying to make any of them work. Instead, they use shittier ideas to progress the story further. The film could've had the same, shitty impact clocking in at 70 minutes rather by deleting the whole Keener / Arquette subplot than being dragged out for 90. There was a brief glimmer of hope during the actual play portion of the film, but that was it.

Do I feel that Hamlet 2 should be listen in the same post as Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie, and Disaster Movie? Yes. Cause nobody tried to make any of those films work.

Um, no.

What I meant for people saying they were the worst comedies of the year. Sex Drive, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express, and Tropic Thunder are the four great comedies of the year.

I haven't seen the Love Guru or any of the Disaster Movie spoofs..thank God. I would say the worse that I have seen would have to be You Don't Mess With the Zohan

You Don't Mess With The Zohan

If Sandler can recover from that POS I will be suprised.

Won't see the Love Guru or any of the Spoof movies. I don't have enough time to watch movies I "want" to see.

not this again!!!!!

1-It has Jessica Alba!
2- Mike Myers used to make funny movies, we all were hoping this was his come back movie
3-It has Jessica Alba!

I made it through 5 minutes of The Love Guru, I was not impressed.

You Don't Mess With the Zohan was not even accidentally funny. Real shame.

EDIT: After looking over some previous posts, I've realized that I have not seen

Disaster Movie
Meet the Spartans
The Love Guru
Made of Honor

If there is a similiar thread of Best Comedy of 2008, I definitely have a few suggestions.

This couldn't be any more wrong if you tried.

Unless you're one of those people who think watching someone get smacked in the nuts is inherently "hysterical".

I couldn't disagree more. They needed to make Coogan's character hit rock bottom for the movie to work. He has to stop caring what other people think so he can make his own vision (and snag Elisabeth Shue, of course). Personally, I laughed as hard as Hamlet 2 as I did at Tropic Thunder, and decidedly more than I did in Pineapple Express.

My response to this is actually another quote from you:
I haven't seen Sex Drive, but I couldn't disagree more with Pineapple Express. What an aimless, disjointed movie. James Franco was great all the way through, but the rest of the movie was incredibly uneven, ranging from hilarious (Rogen on the phone with his girlfriend when she says she wants to marry him) to pointless (anything to do with the villains). I'm with you on Sarah Marshall and Tropic Thunder, though.

I still can't believe anyone can shit on Sarah Marshall. Too much drama? I don't remember going 5 minutes without laughing. Plus, the dramatic elements work. It's not like Old School or Dodgeball or countless other comedies where the "story" gets in the way of the comedy. It's not a movie where the story is just a skeleton to hang a bunch of bits together. It doesn't drag the movie to a halt. I was completely engrossed in those scenes because every performance in that movie works the way it is supposed to (except for Jonah Hill who was just OK).

Well I will never watch any of those spoof movies and I didnt see Zohan or Love Guru either... I did see Made of Honor which was just ridiculously bad but I knew that, it was a wife movie. My vote goes to Pineapple Express because I was so terribly disappointed in it. I was expecting much more, and with the exception of Danny McBride, it really didn't make me laugh much at all.

I thought that was a possibility at first too, and yea, it would make sense for the thread, but it was worded in an odd way. Nobody said anything negative about Tropic Thunder or Sarah Marshall prior to his post.... everyone said that they were up for the BEST of the year... so I took what he said as...

"for those saying Tropic Thunder and Sarah Marshall are the best of the year...need to see more comedies"

why would he say "you need to see more comedies if you think Tropic Thunder is bad so that you can see other comedies that are far worse?"

I dont know, whatever.

Get Smart was just painfully unfunny (and I love Steve Carrell)
Zach and Miri was a huge disappointment