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It’s an excellent high concept, executed a little shaggily but with plenty of irresistible moments-particularly during rehearsals. A kooky inventor (voice of Bill Hader) builds a machine that accidently makes building-sized snacks fall from the sky, leading to a visually inventive aesthetic that plays with scale-not by reducing the size of humans (like The Incredible Shrinking Man and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) but by turning dinner ingredients into potential planet-killers.īen Mendelssohn plays a theatre director who gets a job directing a play for a psychiatric facility, starring the inmates.

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s delightfullly idiosyncratic disaster movie parodies the genre while delivering its own singular take. When two young kids get complete mind control of their malevolent principal, mayhem ensues.Ĭloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) Watch on Netflix This reflects the director’s attitude: keep moving, keep poking every scene for opportunities, keep shifting realities. “This whole visual storytelling thing is hard”, says a character in David Soren’s gloriously kiddish pastiche. Bubby’s venture into wider society is an unflinching portrait of mental illness and much more-including a social critique formed from the protagonist’s, shall we say, unique life experiences.Ĭaptain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) WATCH ON NETFLIX Its various boundary-pushing sequences tend to be discussed only in hushed tones. Rolf de Heer’s notorious classic about a tortured soul (Nicholas Hope) who spent the first 35 years of his life locked in a grubby apartment still, after all these years, almost defies description. The story of a decent kid embroiled in a life of crime becomes a quasi-musical, Wright furthering his already innovative style through playful experimentation with various kinds of rhythm: rhythm of sound, rhythm of images, rhythm of editing.

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Burgundy became kind of a big deal.Įdgar Wright’s sassy crime caper follows a getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) on the autism spectrum, who puts his foot to the floor only when listening to killer tracks on his headphones. Anchorman‘s shaggy pace works in its favour, giving the performance⁠s-particularly Ferrell’s⁠-room to breathe and to settle into a zany, stonerish rhythm. Critic Luke Buckmaster has combed its archives and picked the 25 greatest rib-ticklers.Īnchorman – The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) WATCH ON NETFLIXįew films are as memeable, quotable, or as stupidly enjoyable as Adam McKay’s 70’s-set cult classic about a chauvinistic news anchorman (Will Ferrell) threatened by the arrival of a female newsreader (Christina Applegate).

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Best comedies on netflix april 2017