I was having a discussion with my brother last night, and it was actually extremely difficult for us to come up with a relatively recent comedy movie that either of us truly liked, or liked enough that we would watch it a second time. We decided to scroll through all of the comedies offered by Netflix and HBO GO, and after ~15 minutes of looking came up with only about a handful of available movies we would watch...4 of which we had already seen multiple times.
What do you think? Am I just living under a rock, or are all of these new comedy movies generally terrible? I fear we will never have another comedy great like Rodney Dangerfield making movies because of all of this PC nonsense that has been spreading like a plague.
In the US, yes. I have not seen an American comedy film that has been watchable in a long time.
I think it is partly because of the way they are made, not because of the actual content in them. There seems to be a formula for American comedies that just works, and by that I mean there is a specific way to do things in a comedy film that makes people go and see it. It is not a coincidence that there are a ton of American comedies with very funny comedians in them, but all of them are total shit.
I recommend watching this.