Funny Movies From the 80s N 90s on Netflix
There's nothing like a good feelgood comedy when you need a pick-me-up.
Currently streaming on Netflix in the UK are a bunch of great movies from the 1980s and 1990s that evoke that feelgood feeling.
Larger-than-life characters, laughter, fun adventure, happy endings, and some of Hollywood's greatest stars at the top of their game.
In the mood for that feelgood feeling…
Perhaps it's time to join Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels as they travel cross-country in Dumb and Dumber, or head to the Australian outback with Mick "Crocodile" Dundee, or get an alternative view of the army with Bill Murray in Stripes.
This bunch of feelgood comedies from the 1980s and 1990s also feature a bad-tempered weatherman living the same day over and over again, a fire station chief with a huge nose looking for love, and Arnold Schwarzenegger claiming Sly Stallone was great as the "Terminator"…
Dumb And Dumber
Dumb and Dumber was the film that madeJim Carrey one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars. He's brilliant as the man-who-never-grew up Lloyd Christmas alongside an equally impressiveJeff Daniels as his similarly idiotic best friend. Farrelly Brothers humour may have worn thin towards the end of the decade but they were still enjoying their heyday in 1994 and with Carrey they make arguably their best film.
Stripes
This is the film that put Bill Murray on the A-list. Columbia Pictures first envisioned this as a "Cheech and Chong go to the army" kind of film but with director Ivan Reitman and best friendHarold Ramis on board, it went from a stoner comedy to more of a laugh a minute slapstick with Murray doing what only Murray can.
The comic actor is famous for his deadpan delivery and this is where it all began. Here he plays John Winger, a man approaching 30, who in a matter of hours has quit his job, had his car repossessed, his girlfriend walk out on him and been told to leave his apartment.
He figures the best thing to do is join the army. Once he does, his attitude in the military is no different than it is in life. Murray has us laughing at the absurdity of the whole thing.
The character's introduction scene is stuff of legend – "A platoon without a leader is like a foot without a big toe." Also joining Murray in this one areJohn Candy andJudge Reinhold.
Midnight Run
Robert De Niro does comedy without resorting to parodying his bad-boy image. That's partly why Martin Brest's Midnight Run is so good.
De Niro is super-cool as bounty hunter Jack Walsh who takes on the task of tracking down Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas (Charles Grodin), an accountant who embezzled $15 million from Las Vegas gangster Jimmy Serano (Dennis Farina).
Grodin is also excellent as the nerdy moneyman playing against De Niro's macho hero. De Niro finds himself up against not only rival Marvin Dofler (John Ashton) and the FBI, but Serrano's gang who are out to kill Mardukas before Walsh can bring him in.
Midnight Run is a fun crime caper that sees De Niro playing for laughs.
Coming To America
John Landis was one of the first directors to recognise the potential ofEddie Murphy as a movie star. Five years after giving him an opportunity inTrading Places, Murphy excels playing multiple roles including as wise-cracking New York barber and crazy soul singer as well as main character Prince Akeem Joffer, an isolated African prince who sets out to find his true love in America.
Groundhog Day
Without any doubt, Groundhog Day is one of the funniest and most endearing comedies of the 1990s. It has quickly established itself among audiences as one of the great happy films and the go-to movie for a quick-fix cheer-up.
Bill Murray is brilliant as grumpy weatherman Phil Connors who has to live out the same day over and over again. The film never tells you why or how the day is repeated but that's not the point. As Connors begins to see the error of his ways he begins to have a helpful influence on the lives of those he meets on a continuous basis each day.
The film is It's a Wonderful Life meetsScrooge and it's guaranteed to make you feel good!
Roxanne
Steve Martin wroteRoxanne as a modern day take onEdmond Rostand's play aboutCyrano de Bergerac. That's perhaps why its his finest piece of writing on the subject of love and infatuation, a dramatic theme that often dictated his work – see alsoL.A. Story, A Simple Twist of Fate, andShopgirl.
It also features some of his most crowd-pleasing comedy sequences includingthe brilliant take-down of a barroom bully(when a beer-guzzling drunk dares him to make twenty better jokes than "Big Nose").
I'm not sure Martin has been better, both as writer and actor, as he reels off twenty gags in front of a packed bar, simultaneously rising above the bully's pettiness while demeaning his machismo. It's funny and tragic, witty and personal. Martin's jibes burst the bully's ego, conversely empowering his own stature in front of a fervent audience.
Last Action Hero
Last Action Hero pips True Lies to the "Fun Arnie" winner's medal by virtue of its superb self-reflexive nature thanks to Shane Black's sparkling script.
Schwarzenegger pokes fun at himself as Jack Slater, a version of his macho persona on screen. He also turns up as himself and in one stand-out scene Last Action Hero sees Schwarzenegger-on-Schwarzenegger when he sees his doppelganger wielding a gun.
Despite the film's financial failure (largely due to it being released alongside Jurassic Park), it's a real treasure. It sees a young boy magically transported into the world of his favourite film series starring Schwarzenegger. Once there he tries to tell his idol that he's in a movie but it falls on deaf ears as the characters believe their fictionalised world is, in fact, reality.
A fantastic scene sees the boy taking Arnie into a video store to show him the poster of Terminator 2. However, when he finds the poster, Sylvester Stallone is pictured in the iconic image of the T-800 on the Harley to which Arnie says, "He's fantastic. It's his best performance ever."
Great comedy, great action, great story. If the film was unleashed today it would be much better received than it was on its original release.
Crocodile Dundee
Paul Hogan is most recognisable as the sharp-tongued Australian fish-out-of-water in the Crocodile Dundee franchise. The film, released in 1986, stars Hogan alongside Linda Kozlowski's New York feature writer Sue Charlton.
Charlton is in Australia researching new stories when she hears of a man who wrestled and killed a crocodile. Believing she's found the story she's been looking for, she travels to Walkabout Creek, a small hamlet in Australia's Northern Territory, where she finds cocky bushman "Crocodile" Dundee.
He agrees to take her to where he killed the "croc", at the same time introducing her to living "wild" in the Outback. She becomes enamoured with Dundee's knowledge of the country, its wildlife, and his unconventional approach to life. That leads to her requesting he travel to New York City in order to complete the story to which he agrees having never left his homeland before. He quickly finds out city life is far different from Walkabout Creek. This is fish-out-of-water comedy how it should be done.
The Money Pit
InRichard Benjamin's 1986 film,The Money Pit,Tom Hanks moves into his supposed "dream house" with on-screen wifeShelley Long only to find their new home fall apart around them.
It's a small-scale disaster movie or perhaps you could call it a domestic apocalypse, that puts its two leads through hell. But Hanks and Long enjoy such wonderful comedic chemistry that the depths of their despair only makesThe Money Pit more endearing.
Short Circuit
A military robot gets a change of heart after a power surge turns him from a professional killer into a warm-hearted soul eager to learn about human life and live like one of the guys! If you like Short Circuit, here's a bunch of other robots who think they're human.
Source: https://www.top10films.co.uk/58959-10-feelgood-comedies-from-the-80s-90s-on-netflix-now/
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