"Fierce Creatures Fierce Creatures is a 1997 British-American farcical comedy film. While not literally a sequel, ""Fierce Creatures"" is a spiritual successor to the 1988 film ""A Fish Called Wanda"". Both films star John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. ""Fierce Creatures"" was written by John Cleese, and directed by Robert Young and Fred Schepisi. The film was dedicated to Gerald Durrell and Peter Cook. Some scenes were filmed at Jersey Zoo, a zoological park founded by Durrell. Willa Weston arrives in Atlanta to take a high ranking position in a company recently acquired by Octopus Inc.'s"
"also number 10 on his ""Top 100"" list. The principal cast reunited in 1997 for ""Fierce Creatures"" (dubbed an ""equal"" rather than a sequel or prequel, by Kline), playing different roles. ""Fierce Creatures"" was not as well received by critics or audiences as ""A Fish Called Wanda"". The novelization of ""Fierce Creatures"", written by Iain Johnstone, who co-wrote the film, begins with a letter from Archie (John Cleese's character in the film) to his brother Rollo. According to the letter: A loose Indian adaptation, ""Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav"", was released in 2005. In 2008, it was reported that John Cleese"
"his youth had not been sustained in his later years. However, Cook himself always maintained he had no ambitions at all for sustained success. He assessed happiness by his friendships and his enjoyment of life. Eric Idle said Cook had not wasted his talent but rather that the newspapers had tried to waste him. Several friends honoured him with a dedication in the closing credits of ""Fierce Creatures"" (1997), a comedy film written by John Cleese about a zoo in peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. The dedication displays photos and"
"Platt, Jerry Lewis, Leslie Caron, Freddie Davies, and Lee Evans, it tells the story of two half brothers, one American and the other British, who will stop at nothing to get a laugh... even murder. ""Funny Bones"" won ""Best Picture"" at five European film festivals, and the ""Peter Sellers Award for Comedy"" at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. His third feature, ""The Mighty"" (1998)"","" was based on the best-selling book ""Freak the Mighty."" The film stars Sharon Stone, Gillian Anderson, Gena Rowlands, and Harry Dean Stanton. It received two Golden Globe Nominations. He followed this with ""Town and Country"""
"""Carry On"" series. Hollywood released ""Animal House"" in 1978, which was followed by a long line of teen sex comedies in the early 1980s, e.g. ""Porky's"", ""Bachelor Party"" and ""Risky Business."" Other countries with a significant sex comedy film production include Brazil (""pornochanchada""), Italy (""commedia sexy all'italiana"") and Mexico (""sexicomedias""). Although the ancient Greek theatre genre of the satyr play contained farcical sex, perhaps the best-known ancient comedy motivated by sexual gamesmanship is Aristophanes' ""Lysistrata"" (411 BC), in which the title character persuades her fellow women of Greece to protest the Peloponnesian War by withholding sex. The ""boy-meets-girl"" plot that"
"King of Comedy"" (1983), ""Monty Python's The Meaning of Life"" (1983), ""Brazil"" (1985), ""After Hours"" (1985), ""The War of the Roses"" (1989), ""Heathers"" (1989), ""Your Friends & Neighbors"" (1998), ""Keeping Mum"" (2005), ""Burn After Reading"" (2008), ""The Wolf of Wall Street"" (2013) and ""Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri"" (2017). Gross out films are a relatively recent development and rely heavily on vulgar, sexual or ""toilet"" humour. Examples include ""Porky's"" (1982), ""Dumb and Dumber"" (1994), ""There's Something About Mary"" (1998), and ""American Pie"" (1999). It was not uncommon for the early romantic comedy film to also be a screwball comedy film."
"production on his low-budget movie ""Bad Taste"" where aliens serve humans as fast food, Walsh has collaborated with Jackson on the scripts of all his subsequent films, after joining the writing quartet on his next film, the dark comedy ""Meet the Feebles"" (1989). The couple then reteamed with writer Stephen Sinclair on the horror-comedy film that they had begun writing before Feebles, the zombie movie ""Braindead"" (retitled ""Dead Alive"" in the United States, 1992). Walsh and Jackson have not married (2015). They explored new ground with the drama ""Heavenly Creatures"" (1994). The film that was Walsh's idea was based on"
"with her cobra. In the party scene, the characters move to a cow pasture and the Mermaid enjoys a milk bath. In the cake scene, a group of people dance on top of a large cake from which the Pink Faery emerges. The Mummy appears and attacks the dancers until the Mongolian Child shoots the other characters and climbs to the top of the cake. After the scandal produced by his previous film ""Flaming Creatures"", Jack Smith sought to make a more approachable follow-up. He began shooting under the working title ""The Great Pasty Triumph"". Smith wrote out a detailed"
"Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was commercially successful, grossing nearly US$230 million globally ($33 million in the United States) against a $25 million budget. The second film was the last live-action appearance of the character, until the 2012 London Olympics. ""Top Funny Comedian: The Movie"" is a 2017 spin-off of a Chinese variety show of the same name; the plot involves a number of characters getting involved in a series of misadventures during a visit to Macau at the same time as Mr. Bean, a supporting character in the film. One of the film's stars, comedian Guo"
"of America, more theaters were willing to screen adult-oriented animated features because of the success of ""Fritz the Cat"", and ""Heavy Traffic"" was a box office success. Ralph Bakshi was the first person in the animation industry since Walt Disney to have two financially successful films back-to-back. The film is considered to be Bakshi's biggest critical success. ""Newsweek"" wrote that the film contained ""black humor, powerful grotesquerie and peculiar raw beauty. Episodes of violence and sexuality are both explicit and parodies of flesh-and-blood porn ... a celebration of urban decay."" Charles Champlin wrote in ""The New York Times"" that the"
"Next Friday Next Friday is a 2000 American stoner comedy film and the sequel to the 1995 film ""Friday"". This is the first film to be produced by producer Ice Cube's film production company Cubevision. It was directed by Steve Carr and stars Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Don ""D.C."" Curry, John Witherspoon, and Tommy ""Tiny"" Lister Jr. The film was theatrically released on January 12, 2000, grossing $57.3 million domestically and $59.8 million worldwide. As of 2017, it is the most successful film in the franchise. A sequel, titled ""Friday After Next"", was released in November 2002. After Craig Jones"
"favorites of the title character, Sterling Archer, though he believes ""Gator"" to be the stronger installment. He gets the movies easily confused, though, as he believes several key scenes from ""White Lightning"" to be in the sequel. Reynolds later said the film ""was a breakthrough in that area of blending comedy and action. And it made a lot of money, so other people began trying to do the same thing. They thought, 'Well, he smashed up sixty cars and it made a lot of money, so we'll do a hundred crashes.' But that had nothing to do with its success"
"Flying Daggers"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"", ""World Trade Center"", ""Fool's Gold"", ""300"", ""Knowing"", ""Australia"", ""Sucker Punch"" and most recently ""The Great Gatsby"". In 2002, Animal Logic began work on its first computer-animated feature film, the Academy Award-winning ""Happy Feet"", for director George Miller. Released in the United States on 17 November 2006, the project saw the company expand significantly, recruiting up to 300 artists and technicians from Australia and around the world. ""Happy Feet"", which was the first computer animated feature film produced in Australia, went on to win the Academy Award for"
"""excellent production values"". The notoriously hard-to-please ""Monthly Film Bulletin"" was prepared to concede that it was ""an amusing story...adequately directed and the fun well-timed"" and that Hulbert ""makes the most of his opportunities"". The Vulture (1937 film) The Vulture is a 1937 British quota quickie slapstick comedy film, directed by Ralph Ince and starring Claude Hulbert, Hal Walters and Lesley Brook. The film proved very popular with audiences and the following year spawned a sequel ""The Viper"", although this was much less successful. There is no indication of the film having been shown after its original cinema run. The British"
"real laughs [...] the lovely soft-shoe number ""I Want to Eat Your Face"" [provided] the film's other real laugh."" The Creature Wasn't Nice The Creature Wasn't Nice (also known as ""Naked Space"" and ""Spaceship"") is a 1983 American horror comedy film written and directed by Bruce Kimmel. The movie is a parody of ""Alien"". It stars Leslie Nielsen in a role similar to those in the farcical comedies ""Airplane"" and ""Naked Gun"". It co-stars Cindy Williams, Gerrit Graham, and Patrick Macnee. It was released on VHS in 1983 under the title ""Spaceship"" to emphasize Nielsen's connection to ""Airplane!"", and released"
"""I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry"", ""You Don't Mess with the Zohan"", ""Grown Ups"", ""Grown Ups 2""), Frank Coraci (""Click"", ""Zookeeper"", ""Blended""), Fred Wolf (""Strange Wilderness"", ""The House Bunny""), Tom Brady (""The Animal"", ""The Hot Chick"", """"), Peter Segal (""Anger Management"", ""50 First Dates"", ""The Longest Yard""), and Nicholaus Goossen (""A Day with the Meatball"", ""Grandma's Boy"", ""The Shortcut""). The 1998 films ""The Waterboy"" and ""The Wedding Singer"" helped jump start Sandler's movie career and production company. He produced ""The Waterboy"" and co-wrote the script with Tim Herlihy. The film was extremely profitable, earning over $160 million in the"
"it isn't very funny, either."" In a staff review, ""Variety"" said ""As pleasant yuppie comedies go, this is about par."" However, film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were strong champions of the film, praising it on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"" and ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"". Ebert called the film a ""small miracle,"" while Siskel said it was ""the best film Chase has made"" and compared it to the films of Preston Sturges. Funny Farm (film) Funny Farm is a 1988 American comedy film starring Chevy Chase and Madolyn Smith. The film was adapted from a 1985 comedic"
"funny animals existing alongside humans. During this period there were standout creations like Ralph Bakshi's iconoclastic feature animated film, ""Fritz the Cat"". Funny animals and animal-like characters made a brief comeback in the late 1980s and into the 1990s (most notably through various Warner Bros. and Disney television creations, and through the decidedly cruder work of Bakshi and John Kricfalusi). The subsequent years also had numerous successful animated feature film franchises that featured funny animal characters like DreamWorks Animation's ""Kung Fu Panda"" series, Walt Disney Animation Studios' ""Zootopia"" and Illumination Entertainment's ""Sing"". Artists have created increasingly more unusual examples of"
"dialog, new images, or both. Examples include: Kung Pow! Enter the Fist Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is a 2002 American martial arts comedy film that uses irony to jest at the Hong Kong action cinema. Written, directed by and starring Steve Oedekerk, it uses footage from the 1978 Hong Kong martial arts film ""Tiger & Crane Fists"" (also called ""Savage Killers""), along with new footage shot by Oedekerk, to create an original, unrelated plot. The film was a moderate box office success, grossing $17 million worldwide, and received largely negative critical reviews but has since became a cult film."
"was 2001's second-highest-grossing PG-13 film and the 11th highest-grossing film worldwide. ""Rush Hour 2"" surpassed the 1980 film ""The Karate Kid"" as the highest-grossing martial arts action film, and was ranked as the second-highest-grossing buddy comedy film behind the 1997 film ""Men in Black"". The film was also ranked as the third-highest-grossing second installments in live action comedy film franchises (behind the 2004 film ""Meet the Fockers"" and the 2011 film ""The Hangover Part II""). Reviews of ""Rush Hour 2"" were generally mixed. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives a 52% approval rating based on reviews from 127 critics,"
"It peaked at #50 on the ""Billboard"" 200 and #15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. 2001 NAACP Image Awards 2001 Chicago Film Critics Association Award The popularity of this movie inspired spin-offs, including ""The Queens of Comedy"", ""The Original Latin Kings of Comedy"", ""The Kims of Comedy"", ""The Comedians of Comedy"" and ""The Killers of Comedy"". The Original Kings of Comedy The Original Kings of Comedy is a 2000 American stand-up comedy film directed by Spike Lee and featuring the comedy routines of Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac. Filmed in front of a live audience"
"14% share. This represented a 28% rating increase and a 27% share increase over KTLA's regularly scheduled ""Happy Days""/""Laverne and Shirley"". Ramis left ""SCTV"" to pursue a film career and wrote a script with ""National Lampoon"" magazine's Douglas Kenney, which eventually became ""National Lampoon's Animal House"". They were later joined by a third collaborator, Chris Miller. The 1978 film followed the struggle between a rowdy college fraternity house and the college dean. The film's humor was raunchy for its time. ""Animal House"" ""broke all box-office records for comedies"" and earned $141 million. Ramis next co-wrote the comedy ""Meatballs"", starring Bill"
"initial budget of $55 million in only eleven days. It went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 2000, earning over $160 million in North America and over $330 million worldwide. ""Meet the Parents"" was well received by film critics and viewers alike, winning several awards and earning additional nominations. Ben Stiller won two comedy awards for his performance and the film was chosen as the Favorite Comedy Motion Picture at the 2001 People's Choice Awards. The success of ""Meet the Parents"" inspired two film sequels, namely ""Meet the Fockers"" and ""Little Fockers"" released in 2004 and 2010"
"Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips. Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series. Recent successful films include the working class comedies ""Brassed Off"" (1996) and ""The Full Monty"" (1997), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" (1994) and ""Notting Hill"" (1999) the pop-culture referencing ""Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy"" (""Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End""), and a movie based on a real life event ""The Boat That Rocked"" (2009). In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the"
"Meet the Feebles Meet the Feebles is a 1989 New Zealand musical black comedy film directed by Peter Jackson, and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Stephen Sinclair and Danny Mulheron. It features Jim Henson-esque puppets in a perverse comic satire. Like Henson's Muppets, the Feebles are animal-figured puppets (plus some suited performers) who are members of a stage troupe. However, whereas the Muppets characterize positivity, naïve folly and innocence, the Feebles largely present negativity, vice and other misanthropic characteristics. It is the first Jackson film that was co-written by his future wife Fran Walsh, who has gone on to act"
"else, and he and his pretty neighbor Debbie (Nia Long) hook up. Next Friday is a 2000 stoner comedy film, and the sequel to the 1995 film ""Friday"". This is the first film to be produced by producer Ice Cube's film production company Cubevision. The film is directed by Steve Carr, and stars Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Don ""D.C."" Curry, John Witherspoon, and Tommy ""Tiny"" Lister Jr. In the sequel, Deebo has sworn revenge against Craig for beating him up and putting him in jail for four years. He is joined by his little brother, Tyrone (Sticky Fingaz), whom he"
"""Men Behaving Badly"", an American take on the hit British series of the same name. The U.S. version ran for two seasons. Schneider starred in the 1999 feature film """", a tale of a fish-tank cleaner who incurs a massive debt and is forced to become a ""man-whore."" This was followed by ""The Animal"", about a man given animal powers by a mad scientist; ""The Hot Chick"", wherein the mind of a petty thief played by Schneider is mystically switched into the body of a pretty, but mean-spirited high school cheerleader (Rachel McAdams); and the sequel """". The latter movie"
"fellow Zoo York team riders and close friends Harold Hunter, Peter Bici, et al. In his memory Supreme have released featured images of his Skateboarding (taken by photographer Ari Marcopoulos) in their clothing lines and publications. Promotional footage of Pierce and the 'Supreme Crew' skateboarding has recently surfaced on the Supreme New York website While skateboarding in Washington Square Park, Pierce was discovered by film director Larry Clark, who cast him in his controversial 1995 film ""Kids"". After the success of ""Kids,"" Pierce won an Independent Spirit Award for his portrayal of Casper, the profane and drug-addicted skateboarder friend of"
"performance led to the film having a cult following among male adolescents. At the worldwide box office, it grossed . In addition to launching Carrey's film career, it also spawned the sequel film """" (1995), the animated TV series """" (three seasons, 1995–2000), and later, the direct-to-video spin-off sequel """" (2009). Ace Ventura is an eccentric, very unorthodox Miami-based private detective who specializes in retrieving tame or captive animals. He struggles to pay his rent, and is often mocked by the Miami Police Department, led by Lieutenant Lois Einhorn, who finds Ventura insufferable. Two weeks before the Miami Dolphins are"
"a short lived children's cartoon titled Tea Time with Space Dinosaur. Di Bona's first two television series creations were spawned from Japanese programs. Di Bona developed the ABC series ""Animal Crack-Ups"", based on a popular Tokyo Broadcasting System game show called ""Waku Waku"". ""America's Funniest Home Videos"" was inspired by another Tokyo Broadcasting System series, the variety show ""Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan"". ""America's Funniest Home Videos,"" currently in its 29th year and the longest-running primetime entertainment show on ABC, reached a milestone 600 episodes in 2017. The show eventually led to two spinoffs, ""America's Funniest People"" and the"
"De Niro. He also produced and acted in a number of successful business training films, including ""Meetings, Bloody Meetings,"" and ""More Bloody Meetings"". These were produced by his company Video Arts. With Robin Skynner, the group analyst and family therapist, Cleese wrote two books on relationships: ""Families and How to Survive Them"", and ""Life and How to Survive It"". The books are presented as a dialogue between Skynner and Cleese. In 1996, Cleese declined the British honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). The follow-up to ""A Fish Called Wanda"", ""Fierce Creatures""—which again starred Cleese alongside"
"movie is messy and plotless and relies on unfunny vulgar gags"". On Metacritic, the film has received a score of 41 based on 25 reviews, indicating ""mixed or average reviews"". Next Friday Next Friday is a 2000 American stoner comedy film and the sequel to the 1995 film ""Friday"". This is the first film to be produced by producer Ice Cube's film production company Cubevision. It was directed by Steve Carr and stars Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Don ""D.C."" Curry, John Witherspoon, and Tommy ""Tiny"" Lister Jr. The film was theatrically released on January 12, 2000, grossing $57.3 million domestically"
"highest-grossing comedy film; both released by Universal. 2004 in film The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like ""Troy"", ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"", ""The Bourne Supremacy"", ""Van Helsing"", ""The Passion of the Christ"", """", ""Thunderbirds"", ""Meet the Fockers"", ""Harold and Kumar"", ""The Day After Tomorrow"", ""Anchorman"", ""Saw"", """", ""Spider-Man 2"", ""Alien vs. Predator"", ""The Incredibles"", ""Kill Bill: Volume 2"", ""Fahrenheit 9/11"", ""I, Robot"", ""Ocean's Twelve"" and """". ""Shrek 2"" set a new record for total gross by an animated film making it the highest-grossing animated"