Darkly funny and perfectly cast
580365
Mike Judge has a great eye for characters and dark comedy, and while this isn't as memorable as Office Space, it has a similar quirkiness to the characterization that gives his movies the Judge Trademark. The casting couldn't be better - Jason Bateman and J K Simmons are hilarious while Mila Kunis is a very believable gold-digging vixen out to score off Bateman's company. Neither as unique as Office Space nor as caustic as Idiocracy, Extract is an amusing collection of bad decisions by flawed characters that's still more entertaining than the vast amount of Hollywood fluff in the last few years.
3416605
COULD NOT FIND A FUNNIER FILM AND ENTERTAING FILM MADE
4097688
Set in modern day Wellington (New Zealand) we meet a house share of vampires. They are all rather old but Nosferatu `look alike' Petyr is absolutely ancient. The marvellous Jemaine Clement plays Vladislav a love and care worn vamp. The narrator of the hose is a more spritely Viago who escorts our documentary film crew around the house and lives of his nocturnal chums.

This  film crew will be given access to hitherto unseen aspects of vampire life. This will include social life and the misery of night living, not being able to see your reflection and having to do the washing up.  We also get to meet a group or rather pack of Werewolves who have a sort of love - hate relationship with `the children of the night'.

Now this is played for laughs and it really gets them; the existential angst of being dead and the chore of getting your `fix' are all done with an eye for the funny. The acting is perfectly hammed up when it needs to be with location shooting that adds to the documentary pretence of the whole thing. Even the SFX are brilliant. This is just a great film that fun splattered all over it, keeps the laughs coming and never knows when to take itself seriously completely recommended.
2338902
The pace is perfect, and the series of absurd events is both fun and jarring -- you don't know what's coming next. Truly a creative film -- the cinematography, effects, music, acting, and writing are all top notch. And you'll find dark humor throughout. A must-see!
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"Just A Little Harmless Sex" combines a universally laffable situation, a terrific cast, and some of the snappiest dialogue to come out of the independent filmmaking of the nineties.  Lauren Hutton makes a  return to the big screen with a brilliant performance as the sagely, yet  alluring matron, overseeing her thirty-something children and their  matrimonial indescretions.  Jonathan Silverman fans won't be disappointed  either.  I've screened this film a few times now and never fail to discover  new things to laugh at.  I'm sure this will pop up on top 10 lists in the  future as one of the best comedies of recent times for those fortunate  enough to have seen it.
3525506
Keeping Mum is a 2005 comedy/crime/thriller/family drama/mystery but first and foremost, a British black comedy at its finest, subtle and the bizarre that stars Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rowan Atkinson, and Patrick Swayze. It is full of surprises, twists, and un-expected revelations. It's got sex, murders, and violence but they are handled in such hilariously proper way that I was amused and entertained all along. Among plenty of surprises, I'd love to mention two first. Rowan Atkinson has turned by the other side of his talent. His vicar Walter Goodfellow is a true good fellow, a nice quiet man who is so overwhelmed by demands of his job that and he fails to recognize some troubling realities in his own family. His wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas) is sexually frustrated, and starts an affair with her American golf instructor (Patrick Swayze) who is also drooling over Gloria and Walter's stunningly beautiful teenage daughter Holy ( In 2007, Tamsin Egerton was voted tenth of the one hundred most beautiful faces in the world, by IndependentCritics.com. - I can't agree more. She was another surprise in the movie). Holy is a bit too eager to explore her sexuality with a new boyfriend every week. The couple's pre-teen son Petye is a target of a group of bullies at school. Enters new housekeeper, amazing Grace Hawkins (Dame Maggie Smith), efficient, charming, and extraordinary loyal to Goodfellows and their wellbeing. She brings with her a huge trunk full of memories and some clothes, and the life in Goodfellow household will never be the same. Grace certainly knows how to take care of the persistent annoying problems and these who cause them.

Maggie Smith is delightful in every single role I've seen her. Her incomparable ability to bring very unique humor, depth, and mannerism into her performances make her deservingly one of the best British actresses in history. Just watch Smith delivering the lines that she makes devilishly funny and incredibly amusing. Smith has been supported by very able cast. The story combines several genres interestingly enough for me to recommend this movie highly. But you have to be a fan of British comedies and British dry black humor and not to be offended by murders and adulteries as the subjects of a comedy.

I did not know anything about the movie until my mom rented it from our local library (I love our library - the source of little known but often very enjoyable movies free of charge) and recommended it to me. It was a very nice surprise - just as it was for the viewers at 2006 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival where Keeping Mum received Film Discovery Jury Award.
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Arrested Development possesses a cast chemistry that spans from the show's protagonist to the cameos and temporary characters.  The humor grows on you - there are many running jokes that build as the characters and their relationships develop - and may just seep its way into your daily repertoire.  Jason Bateman plays the perfect fulcrum for the complete out-of-handness of his dysfunctional family as Michael Bluth.  You feel yourself rise and fall with his never-ending dilemma between getting his socially awkward family (and the failed company they depend on) back on their feet and making a new life, free of insanity, for he and his son.  His relatibilty is tempered by the irony that he was reared and raised by the same people he is trying to save.  His supporting cast is a cornucopia of laughs and delightful awkwardness, and no matter how many times the show puts the Bluths on the path to recovery, they are always perfectly capable of ruining the best laid of plans.  I highly recommend this series to anyone who can set aside seriousness and propriety for awhile and revel in the hilarious and absurd.
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I rented this movie and fell in love with it long before ever discovering it was based on The Taming of the Shrew.  Rather than rehash the storyline as so many reviewers are inclined to do, I will tell you that this movie is the best teen flick I've seen since Sixteen Candles, and that's saying something.  I never stopped laughing.  With a great cast of young actors, particularly Julia Stiles as major teed-off rebel Kat Stratford, sexy Aussie Heath Ledger as her very Michael Hutchence-like persuer Phil Verona, and Joseph Gordon Levitt (formerly Tommy of Third Rock From the Sun), you get good, solid performances and superb writing with clever one-liners and plenty of chemistry-driven interaction in each scene to warrant learning the dialog without trying.  This movie is witty and so much fun that I always recommend it to anyone and everyone that hasn't seen it yet.  Get a hold of this for the sheer enjoyment, because it's a total laugh riot.  The music isn't entirely my thing but, by the end, I even started kind of likeing Letters to Cleo.  Destined for classic status if it isn't already.
2423684
If you are a fan of indie films then this is the movie for you.  I really enjoyed the story and the twists and turns that kept me on my toes. This is the perfect dark comedy for an evening in.
1766632
I saw this on HBO one day and fell in love with it. I have since bought a copy and watch it once in a while, when I need a laugh. Jonathan Silverman and Dan Cortese (who co-starred together on The Single Guy) play a couple of guys who represent polar opposites among single guys- one is the timid romantic who has trouble getting girls, the other is a womanizing egomaniac who has no trouble whatsoever getting girls. The movie follows them around for a few days as they date, trade one-liners and dating philosophies, play hookey from work, etc. The movie's pretty lightweight as far as plot goes, but it's one of the funniest comedies out there, and Silverman and Cortese have great chemistry as wisecracking buddies. R. Lee Ermey (the drill sargeant from Full Metal Jacket) has a hilarious cameo as a weird guy who tries out his creepiness on Silverman but makes the mistake of catching him on a bad night. This movie is great fun; seek it out.
733088
Absolutely hysterical, the casting is perfect and Louis C.K. is incredibly entertaining.
3410256
I simply adore the two actors. Their comedic timing are always spot on. The show has the perfect ensemble. Kudos to the writers for coming up with such funny and witty lines.
1837978
Extremely funny, especially without some of the best lines getting bleeped as PBS did when they aired it. Both the writing and comedic timing of the actors are pitch perfect. Of course McKellen and Jacobi are legendary actors, but I didn't know they could do comedy so well too. The actors who play Ash and Violet I'd never heard of but they are superfunny as well. Well worth the price even though it is only seven episodes plus interviews--always leave the audience wanting more I guess is the old adage. Definitely looking forward to season two next year.
3421810
Quirky and funny with awesome performances by a talented cast, this movie is not to be missed.
792863
This movie is a classic and definitely one of my all time faves. The dark, twisted plot is outrageous and wildly ingenious.  Dunne is perfect as the poor Regular Joe whose life is turned upside down in the course of one wild night. It's one of those movies that continues to spiral every which way until the final hysterical shot. Arquette, O'Hara, and Garr are all perfect in this as well.

Scorcese perectly catches the paranoid urban drama/fish-out-of-water story and turns it into a hillarious comic nightmare.  There are so many unforgtable scenes in this film.

Not to be missed and now to be owned on DVD.
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This is a great dark comedy that taps into our wishful thoughts when you see  unreal "reality" tv or shock commentators. It is a testimonial of our times where "rude", "loud" or "outrageous" is the way to fame, instead of personality, talent and substance.
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Every now and again I find a book that really makes me laugh - and this is one of them. It is dark and twisted, really funny with a quite unexpected ending.

Harvey Mapes (just as good a name as Forrest Gump) is a 26-year-old security guard, a virtual no-hoper who mans the night shift on the gate of an up-market residential estate in LA. The security is superficial as Harvey in unarmed and even his badge is sewn on. Nothing happens on that shift so Harvey reads a lot of second- hand detective stories, watches PI shows on TV and is addicted Spenser, Magnum, and Mannix.

Harvey is overjoyed when one of the residents, Cyril Parkus, asks him to follow his lovely wife Lauren because she is acting strangely. The pay is great and Harvey immediately does his homework by watching a marathon session of "Mannix" to get clues on how to follow someone. Suddenly he feels alive as he has a purpose in life. He shares this with his neighbour Carol, with whom he has a casual sexual relationship. She calls him "Magnum" and is turned on with the thought of Harvey's PI project.

Of course nothing goes as planned and while Harvey makes the most basic mistakes he does find a clue that suggests that Lauren is being blackmailed and Carol helps him to find the name of the blackmailer. Then something terrible happens and Harvey is completely out of his depth - but he plows on and gets into, and out of, even more trouble.

Lee Goldberg has created a lovable and memorable character that you will follow with trepidation, amazement and delight. This is a great little book that pokes fun at the PI genre and gets away with it. Well recommended.