Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Based on the 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto tells the strange odyssey of Irish transvestite Patrick Braden (Murphy), abandoned as a baby to an a life of foster care by his mother,...
Category: Comedy
House Party 2 (1991)
The surprise hit House Party earned a sequel one year later, continuing the adventures of rappers Kid n Play after they’ve just graduated high school. Kid (Reid) is off to college, the same one as...
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Although dominated by its impressive special effects, Honey I Shrunk the Kids (originally scripted with the title, Teenie Weenies) thankfully proves to be more than just a treat for the eyes. For a family film, it is...
The Break-Up (2006)
Brooke (Aniston) and Gary (Vaughn) are live-in lovers that get into a heated argument about Gary’s choice of slacking, rather than voluntarily assisting his insufferable girlfriend with the daily chores. Brooke gets so frustrated that she...
Fathers’ Day (1997)
Fathers’ Day is yet another American remake of a French comedy that falls flat on its face from an absence of quality humor. Perhaps most of the humor is lost in translation or perhaps the...
Reality Bites (1994)
Designed to have an underlying commentary about what it’s like to be 20-something in the mid-1990s, Reality Bites does contain a few insights, but not nearly enough to be able to lay its claim as...
Stay Tuned (1992)
I think just about everyone has imagined what it might be like to be sucked into the fantasy world of their own television, appearing on their own favorite shows, rubbing shoulders with their favorite...
Fight Back to School (1991)
Stephen Chow stars as an undercover cop whose latest assignment is to pose as a student at a nearby school in order to find out what happened to the missing gun of the captain...
Last Holiday (2006)
Last Holiday remakes the 1950 classic in typically contrived Hollywood fashion, ratcheting up the cuteness factor, while plausibility and any sense of subtlety are largely absent for the duration. What it does have is...
Meteor Man (1993)
I like films about superheroes. I like Robert Townsend. A film by Robert Townsend about superheroes would seem like it couldn’t miss with me. It does — and by a lot. Meteor Man was created...