While you can always choose from the best comedy movies ever made, there is something to be said about movies that have been made in the contemporary times. Choose from the best comedy movies of the 21st century the next time you are down and out and need that dose of medicine to make you smile. The list of movies given below is a largely subjective list that is also supplemented by the movie reviews they got when released.
Top Comedy Movies of the 21st Century
The list given here has the top ten comedy movies of the 21st century according to us. We also give you a list of the 50 best comedy movies of the 21st century that according to us also made the grade.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Released in 2004, this movie stars Will Ferrell and Christian Applegate as anchor people in a San Diego T.V. Station. It takes a sarcastic and humorous look at the popular culture of the 70's. It is one of those movies that is omnipresent on any best comedy movies ever made list. There were plans for a sequel to the movie which were canned this year.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Most of us are familiar with this movie as just Borat. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, it was written by the British comedian as well. It had Cohen play the role of a Kazakh reporter traveling in the United States. The film had real life situations recorded with American citizens. Borat, which was released in 2006, was a huge success, both commercially and critically.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
A 2004 release starring Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor and Rip Torn, it is a story about a small time gym owner who enters a dodge ball tournament with his friends to earn money in order to prevent his gym being acquired by Globo-Gym, rival gym, located across the street from the. A hilarious movie about the triumphs of the underdog, the movie was a commercial success.
The Hangover
A sleeper hit of the year 2009, this comedy made stars out of its actors, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms, who play the role of three groomsmen who lose the groom, a day before the wedding, after a night of wild partying and have no memory of the night at all. The movie retraces their steps, as they try to find the groom. It was critically and commercially acclaimed.
Mary and Max
A claymation movie from 2009, the movie by Adam Elliot features the voices of Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Eric Bana. The movie tells the story of a friendship between a 8 year old girl from Melbourne, Australia, who finds an unlikely pal in Max, a 44 year old Jew, suffering from Asperger's syndrome who lives in New York City. The movie spans a time period of 22 years from 1976 to 1998.
Punch-Drunk Love
A 2002 romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson, Punch Drunk Love was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It tells the story of Sandler, who is a businessman with seven overbearing sisters and his roundabout way of finding love with a colleague of one of his sisters.