Monday, March 2, 2009

New comedies Worth a look: watch full length

By Lauara Scudder

ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO: Rent is over due and Zack and Miri, roommates and good friends, really need to find an answer to their money problems. Their solution? Easy, make a dirty movie. Obviously this situation makes for a fun movie.

With the year 2008 almost finished The movie industry sent to screen more than 325 movies. Of these 350 + movies, well over fifty, maybe even seventy plus, are made with laughter in mind. Here are a few of the top comedies that have hit the theaters in 2008.

HAMLET 2: Dana Marshz, formerly a small time actor, now finds himself teaching theater classes at the high school to apathetic students. When a building is destroyed at the school, the powers to be feel the theater curriculum will be what is dropped. Fully inspired, he is determined to save the theater classes by producing Hamlet 2, a new version of the classic, which he put to paper himself.

FORGETTING SAHRAH MARSHALL: Grief stricken from a tough split with long time girlfriend Sarah, (an actress in a cheesy sitcom), Peter (Jason Segal) decides to go on a trip to Hawaii to recover from his depression. As fate would have it, upon checking into the resort, he looks up and sees his ex girlfriend and her new boyfriend, who's bigger than life. This movie has all the ingredients of a classic romantic comedy.

GET SMART: Maxwell Smart (agent 86) is at it again, "and loving it". KAOS vs CONTROL, agents hidden in plants, and all the great one liners. This is a modern day version that looks back at the antics of Maxwell Smart.

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS: Full time stoner Dale Denton has just seen a bad police officer, and a big time dealer, kill someone. He was spotted, and they know he has seen what's gone down. Realizing this, he is so shaken he throws down his joint, a rare blend named pineapple express, and he flees. The pot is so unique, that the bad guys can. The "fun" is ?on?, and Dale and his pot dealer friend Saul are desperately hiding from the bad guys.

ROLE MODELS: Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (William Scott), who sell energy drinks, are going to see some hard jail time because they binged, and trashed the company truck. The option to get out of going to prison is to perform 150 hours of community service. The problem is they will need to mentor troubled kids as sort of a big brother. The pieces are all in place for this to be very funny.

MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA: As the title suggests, this is the sequel to the animated smash hit Madagascar. The four animal heroes, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippo want to return to the Central Park Zoo in NY, from their first adventure. With things going wrong again, with the Penguins leading them astray, they will wind up going to Africa instead.

TROPIC THUNDER: Overloaded with good actors this movie is a classic parody of popular war films. Things are going bad, so to get his super star cast to make a first rate war movie, the now venturesome director into the wild jungle, and leaves them there by themselves. The plan is to scare them into the realism needed for a great war film, which hidden cameras will capture. When the director steps on an old land mine and dies, the actors are now truly on their own, and they are convinced everything is just an act, when things start to get very real. Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., and Tom Cruise star in the film.

STEP BROTHERS: When two 40 year olds, who both live at home with one parent, are now going to live in the same room because their parents marry, you have one crazy situation. Casting John Reilly and Will Ferrell acting as these two idiots, and you have the ingredients for a very fun film. This movie is a must see if your looking for some laughs.

The movies noted above, and thousands more, are accessible for purchase, get as a rental, or could even be downloaded immediately to your pc. Accessing movies through downloads from internet vendors is quickly becoming one of the most popular ways for accessing DVD's. Check online for places to get free downloads. This is a great way to build a specific collection of films.

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