In 2011 Bridesmaids set the standard for female raunch comedy. Neatly balancing obscenity and sensitivity the film showed that women behaving badly can be just as funny as men. Bad Moms aims to one-up Bridesmaids by taking those paragons of virtue, responsibility and compliance, namely, mothers and having them gleefully cast off the shackles of both domestic servitude and society’s
Read moreThe original National Lampoon’s Vacation from 1983 was an amiable, occasionally risqué comic farce that cheerfully and amusingly exploited the trauma of family holidays and in particular road trips. Building on an enjoyably silly performance from lead Chevy Chase as slightly deranged patriarch Clark Griswold, that film generated enough good will to warrant a number of sequels of admittedly decreasing
Read moreThe Ron Burgundy Anchorman films are the contemporary equivalent of the Austen Powers movies; heavily art-directed, retro-themed pop-cultural parodies where a naïve, politically-incorrect but lovable central character manages to triumph despite his overwhelming stupidity. The first Anchorman film was a fun, endearing fitfully amusing satire of 1970’s sexism and the news reading profession that allowed Will Ferrell to gloriously indulge
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