Hot Fuzz, Tropic Thunder, Kung Fu Hustle, 21 Jump Street, and Bad Boys For Life are among many that have kept the genre going during the past 20 years. Lock, Stock was released the same year as Rush Hour and impressed critics and audiences alike by infusing the action-comedy with post-Tarantino grit and swagger. What that means is that you will see Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels represented. Though they’re fan favorites, the Rush Hour trio were not heavy hitters with critics, so they’ll be absent from this guide to the best-reviewed action-comedies ever, where we’re collecting the top 50 Certified Fresh movies of the genre. In Police Story, Drunken Master, and rest of his peak output, Chan is essentially a living, breathing homage to Buster Keaton, whose absurdly dangerous slapstick prowess powered the original action-comedy: 1926’s The General.Ĭhan and Chris Tucker revitalized the action-comedy formula for the ’90s with the Rush Hour movies. exploded onto the scene, along with Midnight Run, The Blues Brothers, and the rise of Jackie Chan.
The action-comedy is one of the of the more playful, exciting genre hybrids out there, though it didn’t really come into shape until the 1980s, when buddy-cop films like Lethal Weapon and 48 Hrs. You're our guest.(Photo by Warner Bros/ Everett Collection) The 50 Best Action-Comedy Movies, Ranked By Tomatometer I'll scrub them first then I'll get to the windows.Īnnie, you won't have to do any cleaning. Now, would you all come here for a moment, please? We're expecting him any minute.ĭo you really live here, or is this a train station?
GRACE FARRELL and ANNIE ENTER through the door.) PUGH, the cook, standing with pad and pen writing out a menu and FOUR MANSERVANTS. (DRAKE, the English butler, is supervising the work of the SERVANTS of the house, who are bustling about at work: CECILLE and ANNETTE, a pair of French maids MRS.
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