2002 was the year of really bad comedies

Goldmember was good

God I love Kung Pow

We trained him wrong as a joke.

I am bleeding making me the victor

I loved Goldmember

Fook you... fook me


“ cockney English.... and she shat on a turtle !”

“Why don’t you just call it operation arse cream.. ya arse “

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The Master of Disguise

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Took my son to see this in a theater full of kids and the place roared with laughter. I told that to Brett Spiner at a convention, he said that Carvey had made it for his kids. It’s a hilarious kid movie filled with fart jokes.

Same with Nacho Libre. Kid audiences loved it.

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2002 was the year of really bad comedies

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At least they still made comedies in 2002.

The genre is completely dead now due basically to social media outrage mobs.

I'd rather have the 2002 lot of crap than nothing at all.

How often have there been years without a ton of bad comedies? It's a genre with an insanely high miss rate.

2005 was loaded:

Wedding Crashers
40 year old Virgin
Waiting...
Kicking and Screaming
Just Friends
Fever Pitch
The Ringer
Man of the House
Dukes if Hazzard
The Longest Yard
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Bewitched


But not nearly as much 2004:

Anchorman
Napoleaon Dynamite
Starsky and Hutch
Team America: World Police
Dodgeball
Meet the Fockers
Mean Girls
The Girl Next Door
Eurotrip
Shaun of the Dead
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Soul Plane
Without a Paddle
White Chicks

The comedy golden age of the 00's basically started in 2003 with Old School and ended in 2009 with The Hangover...both Todd Phillips films.

Yes stuff like Zoolander came out before Old School, but, as we see from 2002, the movement didn't really take hold until a couple years later.

The peak was basically from 04-06, or the height of Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn. That was also "my era" so I'm biased, but the titles are kind of in arguable. I think it's better than the late 70s and early 80s, but those that age will argue their time as well.

It doesn't matter, though, all I know is, we likely won't ever see it again. I actually can't think of the last comedy I saw in the theater. We used to go and laugh hysterically.

And now especially with the splintering of Netflix, Amazon, etc, I don't see anyone with any balls to enough to release an actual funny movie anymore.

Todd Phillips basically said as much a coupe years ago. It's why he's doimg stuff like Joker now.