The 32 most underrated movie comedies of all time

You owe it to these overlooke𒈔d comedy movies—and yoಞurself—to have a laugh.

Jesse Plemons in Game Night
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Ranked lists are subjective, as is comedy, so the act of trying to identify the most underrated comedy movies might be laughable—a🐻nd not in the fun "ha ha" way. Nevertheless, there are giggles that have been overlooked by audiences𝓡, and these films deserve to be seen so viewers can chuckle and chortle.

What makes a comedy underrated? There are lots of ways to qualify. Perhaps a movie is better than its reputation would have you believe. Maybe the movie just wasn't a huge hit at the box office, nor has it fully earned cult classic status. It could be underrated simply because most people haven't heard of it. One movie on this list has gotten plenty of acclaim, but critics and audiences aren't giving it enough credit for how side-splittingly funny it is, in addition to all the other things the picture has goin♛g for it.

Here, then, are 32 o💯f the most underrated comedy movies ever made. You mi꧋ght disagree, arguing that some of these movies are indeed properly rated, but as long as folks are laughing, ain't that enough?

32. Bee Movie

Jerry Seinfeld in Bee Movie

(Image credit: Paramount Pictures)

Year: 2007
Directors: Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner

"Do ya like jazz?" One of DreamWorks Animation's most-memed and most-infamous movies, Bee Movie is actually funnier than its irony-poisoned detractors give it credit for being. Of course, it is deranged that Jerry Seinfeld's first big project after his hit sitcom ended was an animated movie where a bee basically falls in love with a human woman (Renée Zell🗹weger), but it's just clever enough to be a nice time. (The best joke probably comes when Seinfeld's Barry B. Benson points out that there's a human Larry King in addition to a bee Larry King.)

31. The Instigators

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in The Instigators

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Year: 2024
Director: Doug Liman

Ocean's Eleven stars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck lead this Apple TV Plus original movie that can be somewꦬhat dismissively yet accurately described as "knucklehead Oceans Two," featuring two much dumber, much less suave crooks than Danny Ocean's crackerjack heist team. It's st𝓡ill pretty dang enjoyable to watch the pair bicker and squabble as they try to get out of jams, having found themselves on the run after a robbery job on behalf of a corrupt Boston mayor goes south.

30. Heavyweights

The campers from Disney's Heavyweights

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Year: 1995
Director: Steven Brill

This kid-friendly '90s comedy follows campers at a fat camp who, unbeknownst to the parents who send them there to shed pounds every summer, ওare actually having a great time under the lenient supervision of the camp's owners. That all changes when a fitness guru, played by Ben Stiller, buys the camp and makes it his mission to whip everybody into shape (literally) so he can market the camp as an infomercial. The campers, including one played by a young Kenan Thompson, make it their mission to rebel. Hijinks ensue.

29. Evolution

The cast of the movie Evolution

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Year: 2001
Director: Ivan Reitman

With Evolution, director Ivan Reitman wanted to do for aliens what his Ghostbusters had done for ghosts nearly two decades earlier💝. He failed, but while Evolution might not be a beloved, iconic film, it's an e✨ntertaining sci-fi comedy romp. David Duchovny and Orlando Jones star as college professors who discover a crashed meteor in the Arizona desert. The space rock has life on it, and that life is evolving—extremely quickly and dangerously. Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore co-star.

28. Werewolves Within

Sam Richardson in Werewolves Within

(Image credit: IFC Films)

Year: 2021
Director: Josh Ruben

Possibly the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best video game movie adaptation ever made (even if it only borrows from itওs source material, a 2016 VR game, in the broadest strokes), Werewolves Within is a comedy-horror whodunnit. Sam Richardson stars as a forest ranger assigned to a small Vermont town, and when several of the town's residents get trapped in a snowstorm, things go from bad to worse when they begin to suspect one of them is a werewolf. The characters—or rather, the suspects—are all fun archetypes, and you'll find yourself getting earnestly invested in the mystery while you laugh and jolt at the little scares.

17. Hamlet 2

Steve Coogan and Amy Poehler in Hamlet 2

(Image credit: Focus Features)

Year: 2008
Director: Andrew Fleming

Anybody with even a passing knowledge of William Shakespeare's works probably knows why Hamlet doesn't exactly set itself up for a sequel, since just about everybody dies at the end. That doesn't deter Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan), a washed-up actor and high school drama teacher who, facing budget cuts, decides to stage a production of a Hamlet sequel—only unlike the original, this one has song a🎀nd dance, time travel, and Jesus Christ is a character.

8. Together Together

Ed Helms and Patti Harrison in Together Together

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Year: 2021
Director: Nikole Beckwith

This indie comedy drama came out in April 2021, just over a year after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down movie theaters for several months. Even though things were starting to safely reopen, crowds weren't flooding into movie theaters, and so as a result, Together Together, a truly lovely little movie, is underseen. Ed Helms stars as a single man who wants to have a baby, and Patti Harrison plays a young woman who agrees to be the surrogate for his child. It's a unique relationship—one that's inherently intimate yet explicitly a platonic business arrangement—and yet the two can't help but form a (non-romantic) bond despite not being together together. It's all ver🔥y funny—and if you hapꦉpen to be an expecting parent, tear jerking in the best way.