The best movie comedies of the last 15 years

1. Hot Fuzz (2007)

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Writer Thomas Wolfe once said that you can not go home again. It may. But you can always blow it up. This is what Edgar Wright began to do in an emblematic way Hot Fuzz, the second and best of the legendary Cornetto Trilogy by himself and co-writer Simon Pegg. Filmed at Wright’s home in Wales, Somerset – a “cathedral” (read: village) in the south of England – the director has returned to his old hangouts to create an incredible cast based on the scripts of police friend Shane Black and the camera Michael Bay moves.

His genius Hot Fuzz, however, is that it does not start that way. Initially, it was a caustic sardonic satire of the bucolic English countryside and of the prestigious BBC television type that could be played there. In other words, it’s hell on earth for the policeman of the big city of London, Nicolas Angel (Pegg). But as he and the unfortunate action movie geek Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) reveal a murder plot across the community, their world is slowly being transformed into the Hollywood cheesfests of Danny’s DVD collection. The last 20 minutes is a glorious crescendo of action movie clichés and bursts of laughter that still resonate 15 years later. – DC

Films that also receive significant amounts of votes in descending order: The proposal, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Midnight in Paris, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Good boys, Hot Rod, The Lego movie, Deadpool, Hail Caesar!, Happy Day of Death, Palm Springs, This is the end, The Simpsons movie, Inhibitors, The Nice Guys, He leaves brothers, The Wolf of Wall Street, 500 days of summer, Emma., Pirate Radio, Logan Lucky, Hair spray, Hit it, The drunken headache, The Big Short, Swiss army man, Friends with benefits, Travel for girls, The beloved, bad teacher, Do not look up, Fanboys, The Skeleton Twins, Capsule after reading, Death at a funeral (2010), The trip, Green Paper, Hera, The end of the world, Purebred, Jojo Rabbit, Neighbours, The Disaster Artist, The other children, The hunt for Wilderpeople, Bride Wars, Yesterday, The Mapets, Everyone wants a little !!, The internship, The movie Lego Batman, The peanut butter hawk, 22 Jump Street, VHY Yes, Begin again, Young Adult, The Art of Self-Defense, Wooden shelter in the forest, Seven Psychopaths, Death at a funeral (2007), Wine country, Adventure, To all the boys I love, MacGruber, Spy, Aliens, Clown & Geek, Looking for a friend for the end of the world, I care a lot.and Jennifer’s body.