In a year that otherwise struggled to deliver where comedies were concerned, Knocked Up proved to be a very welcome treasure trove of laughs. It's from Judd Apatow, the man behind The 40 Year Old Virgin and the excellent TV show Freaks and Geeks, and sits easily as an equal to both. It's also a long-awaited showcase for the talents of Seth Rogen, who proves with some ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures VideoStarring: Katherine Heigl, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Martin Starr, Paul RuddDirected By: Judd Apatow
Cult comic actor Steve Carell--long adored for his supporting work on The Daily Show and in movies like Bruce Almighty and Anchorman--leaps into leading man status with The 40 Year-Old Virgin. There's no point describing the plot; it's about how a 40 year-old virgin named Andy (Carell) finally finds true love and gets laid. Along the way, there are very funny scenes involving ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Elizabeth BanksDirected By: Judd Apatow
Like Owen Wilson himself, Drillbit Taylor has a loose, shaggy-dog appeal. Wilson plays a homeless ex-soldier who wants to emigrate illegally to Canada--and when three misfit high-school students hire him to protect them from bullies, he sets out to fleece them for the money he needs to get away. Naturally, this being a formulaic crowd-pleaser, he bonds with the kids and discovers that maybe ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Owen Wilson, Troy Gentile, David Dorfman, Nate Hartley, Danny McBrideDirected By: Steven Brill
Gosh--kids. You gotta love 'em, right? Well, not necessarily--particularly if you're Adam Sandler. But Big Daddy is about paternal devotion in its own oblique way. Sandler plays Sonny Koufax, a law-school grad who has been milking an accident settlement to cover his living expenses, while he continues to slack his way through life. But when his girlfriend threatens to dump him, he decides ...
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse, Dylan SprouseDirected By: Dennis Dugan
Disney scored an unexpected hit with this goofy live-action remake of Jay Ward's Saturday-morning cartoon, a zippy Tarzan parody with topical references and absurd gags. Disney's big-screen version, George of the Jungle starring Brendan Fraser as the sweet, hopelessly inept jungle hero, puts the emphasis on slapstick and silly fun. The klutzy hero, still swinging into trees and stray ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, John Cleese, Richard RoundtreeDirected By: Sam Weisman
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Katherine HeiglDirected By: Greg Mottola, Judd Apatow
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George SegalDirected By: Ben Stiller
She's the One is actor-writer-director Edward Burns' second film, following the widely acclaimed The Brothers McMullen. Given a slightly larger budget to play with ($3m as against his debut project's $25,000), Burns revisits much the same territory--love and sibling rivalry within a New York Irish-American family--but rather more expansively. This time, too, he can run to a few ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Edward Burns, Jennifer Aniston, John Mahoney, Mike McGlone, Cameron DiazDirected By: Edward Burns
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Katherine Heigl, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Martin Starr, Paul RuddDirected By: Judd Apatow
