Janet prevents Ned from seeing his best friend, a dog named Willie Nelson, ever again. Miller) and she is evicting Ned from his own farm. Following his release from the penitentiary, Ned discovers that his girlfriend, Janet (Kathryn Hahn), has a new boyfriend (T.J. Ned Rochlin (Paul Rudd), an adorable hippie, is coaxed into selling cannabis to a uniformed police officer. Some of the best comedies of all-time were released in that decade, but so many of them have been unjustly dismissed.ġ.
However, there are a multitude of other 2010s comedies that remain surprisingly overlooked, in need of the audiences they deserve. Most comedy fans are familiar with the popular titles of this decade: Hot Tub Time Machine or Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison productions. That said, the 2010s also boasts its own hefty share of list-topping gems. The late-‘90s through the 2000s are perceived as the most-recent belle époque of comedy films. To say that high calibre films could only be made in a specific decade is to say delicious bread could only be baked in the 1870s and all bread since then has been inedible. There have been brilliant movies produced in every single decade since cinema was born, regardless of what was transpiring in the world. Instead, this is attributable to the creativity, passion and hard work of those who made it. Such flippant remarks have ruined the reputations of many excellent films that audiences would otherwise love, if they hadn’t been turned against them.Īlthough there are movies that do feel of their time, by and large, the quality of a piece is not dependent on the era in which it was made.
They’re deployed when journalists are too lazy to spend the time to comprehend a piece’s worth. These stock quotes come across as uneducated and narrow-minded. Some critics relish in assigning reductive, patronising labels: “you couldn’t make a film like that any more,” “it was of its time,” “that was back when movies were still good,” “the industry was different then,” etc. When people think of the golden age of comedy movies, they often reference the Marx Brothers’ 1930s or Bill Murray’s 1980s.
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