Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a 2008 comedy that can be watched again and again. Jason Segel originally wrote the script and has recently release Get him to the Greek as a follow up. Both films are equally funny and raunchy all at the same time. You’ll love it.

The film is about a composer, whose famous girlfriend breaks up with him for a rock star. Things get hilarious when he decides to visit Hawaii, hoping that the vacation will help get his mind off the woman he loved. When he gets there, the first person he runs into is his ex-girlfriend – Sarah Marshall.

Things begin to heat up between the composer and the girl that works at the hotel, only long enough, until we see everyone’s relationships begin to fall apart.

The film is completely hilarious. It is one of those pic me up films, even on one of your worst days.

Budget: N/A
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Starring:
Jason Segel
Kristen Bell
Mila Kunis
Russell Brand
Bill Hader
Liz Cackowski
Maria Thayer
Jack McBrayer
Jonah Hill
Paul Rudd

Adam Sandler, like all his other films, does a great job and brings a lot of funny moments. It’s really funny and something that can be watched over and over. If you haven’t seen it lately, it’s time to dust it off and watch it again.

Budget: $23 million
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring:
Adam Sandler
Kathy Bates
Fairuza Balk
Henry Winkler
Jerry Reed
Larry Gilliard Jr.
Rob Schneider

The first Ghostbusters was released in 1984, with a sequel that follow about five years later. Soon, you’ll be able to watch the third installment as the team is reunited.

So the first Ghostbusters did extremely well in the market and with audiences. It is about three unemployed friends who are interested in the paranormal. Eventually, they’re able to create a thriving business off of catching ghosts and placing them in their containment unit. Only problem, a regulator thinks that the business they are running is a scam and wants them shut down. His main target is the containment unit; since he believes it’s a scam, there won’t be a problem with ghosts if he turns it off. Wrong!

Overall, it’s a great film. A lot of people are already getting word that Ghostbusters 3 will be out soon – hopefully if follow the same recipe as the previous films.

Budget: $30 million
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring:
Bill Murray
Sigourney Weaver
Dan Aykroyd
Harold Ramis
Rick Moranis
Annie Potts
William Atherton
Ernie Hudson

Meet the Parents is the 2000 comedy starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. What a great and funny movie this is. The cast, all of which are recognizable, interact perfectly with each other.

The story is about Greg Focker going home for the weekend with his girlfriend, whom he’s hoping to marry, and meeting her parents. Focker thinks her Father is a florist, but soon discovers he was a secret CIA agent and an expert spy. Robert De Niro does an awesome job antagonizing Ben Stiller’s character. It was funny the day it came out and it’s still hilarious today.

Budget: $55 million
Director: Jay Roach
Starring:
Robert De Niro
Ben Stiller
Owen Wilson
Teri Polo
Blythe Danner
Nicole DeHuff
Jon Abrahams

Juno is a 2007 about a high school girl that gets pregnant, decides to have an abortion, then changes her mind and decides to have the baby, but put it up for adoption. The film has recognizable names and has it’s moments of funny, but for the most part, I hated this film. Almost from the beginning when the main character Juno started talking, I knew I wasn’t gong to like it. Following the film, I wondered how this won a best screenplay Oscar. Part of me thinks that this film way way over-hyped, though there are some funny moments in the film.

Budget: $7.5 million
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring:
Ellen Page
Michael Cera
Jennifer Garner
Jason Bateman
Allison Janney
J.K. Simmons
Rainn Wilson

The Informant is a 2009 film about Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), who is helping the FBI catch senior level people at his company for price fixing. It’s an off beat comedy that has some really funny moments, if you pay close attention and watch the film. The story starts with an unexplained virus that keeps infecting their product at the corn company where he works. Whitacre ends up making up a story about a Japanese competitor that says they have a mole that is sabotaging their product and will only tell them who it is for 10 million dollars. The company decides to bring in the FBI to catch the mole, but since they are running a price fixing operation, Whitacre gets nervous and tells them the truth - or so you think.

Turns out the price fixing is real, only everything else Whitacre says isn’t, he’s a liar, thief, embezzler, and jeopardizes the DOJ’s entire case with his antics.

Overall, it’s a good movie and funny.

Budget: $21 million
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring:
Matt Damon
Melanie Lynskey
Scott Bakula
Joel McHale
Ann Cusack

MacGruber is a 2010 film that was spun off from the funny skits that you see on SNL. It stars Will Forte, as a McGyver type, having been a Green Beret, Ranger, Special Forces, and received tons of medals. Now he has to save the world from a stolen nuclear weapon. After hiding out for ten years, his old commander (Rambo type) is sent to get him and get him on board with finding the weapon. Once he finds out who the thief is, MacGruber puts together a team to help him find and kill his sworn enemy.

Over all the film was funny, a lot of the scenes may have been just a little too long and a little too over the top, but for the most part it was really funny. Some of the best parts were when they parodies some films you may have seen in the past.

Budget: $10 million
Director: Jorma Taccone
Starring:
Will Forte
Kristen Wiig
Val Kilmer
Ryan Phillippe
Powers Boothe
Maya Rudolph

What Women Want is a 2000 comedy starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The film is about Nick Marshall (Gibson), he’s a ladies man, but doesn’t treat them very well. One night, while at his apartment, he is electrocuted while getting out of the bathtub – when he wakes up the next morning, he slowly learns that he has a new gift. He can hear all the thoughts of women.

He uses this new power to sabotage the career of a woman that was promoted over him, but at the same time he falls in love with her.

The film was really funny, romantic, and all around great to watch, even to this day.

Budget: $70 million
Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring:
Mel Gibson
Helen Hunt
Marisa Tomei
Alan Alda
Ashley Johnson
Delta Burke
Judy Greer
Lisa Edelstein

Four Christmas’s is a 2008 comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. This is one of those comedy’s where almost all the jokes and punch lines are right on target. The movie is about a couple, who go on a vacation rather than visits their families every Christmas. The problem this time is that they are stopped at the airport by a news reporter and their families see them on the news trying to leave for vacation.

Once they’ve been outed, the families call, and they have to go visit them instead of their dream trip to Fiji. In a single day, they visit all four of their families. Along the way, the learn more about family, deal with past issues, and strengthen their own relationship as a couple.

While the film is set in the Christmas period, you can watch it any time of year. It’s a really funny film, that everyone will enjoy.

Budget: $80 million
Director: Seth Gordon
Starring:
Vince Vaughn
Reese Witherspoon
Robert Duvall
Sissy Spacek
Jon Voight
Jon Favreau
Mary Steenburgen
Dwight Yoakam
Tim McGraw
Kristin Chenoweth

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 film, starring Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson. Nicholson plays an OCD type writer who goes into the same restaurant and orders the same thing everyday. He eventually begins to fall for the waitress (Hunt). When he learns that she has a son, who is sick, and may have to leave her job – Nicholson sends a doctor friend over to her home to look at the boy. Though he likes Hunt, he tells her he did it so she wouldn’t quit her job.

At the same time, he’s having issues with his gay neighbor and his manager (Gooding Jr.). Towards the end, Hunt, Nicholson, and Greg Kinnear take a trip to visit Kinnear’s family (looking for money). This trip, while almost ripping them all apart, actually strengthens their bond as friends.

Overall, it was a great movie. A mix between comedy and drama, with hilarious moments on everyone’s part.

Budget: $50 million
Director: James L. Brooks
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
Helen Hunt
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Greg Kinnear
Skeet Ulrich