# I Heart Huckabees, Lebowski, BottleRocket:  Need a good comedy...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 26, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-huckabees-lebowski-bottlerocket-need-a-good-comedy/341740 "2006-01-26T19:35:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-huckabees-lebowski-bottlerocket-need-a-good-comedy/341740/1 "2006-01-26T19:35:03Z")

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My girlfriend and I have been watching a lot of good movies lately, but they’ve all been really heavy, serious movies: Constant Gardener, The Pianist, Syriana, etc. We need something a little more light-hearted.

We’re also not in the states, so we’d like to know if there have been some funny movies lately (in the last year) that we might have missed. I mentionned the movies in the title just because I think those are some of the best movies ever made that aren’t serious at all.

Anyone got any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-huckabees-lebowski-bottlerocket-need-a-good-comedy/341740/2 "2006-01-26T19:39:06Z")

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Have you seen Wes Anderson’s other movies? Bottle Rocket was very good, but I think he’s improved immensely as a filmmaker since then. Rushmore is great, and The Royal Tennenbaums is my favorite film ever made. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a step down, and probably his most challanging film, but still well worth it.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-huckabees-lebowski-bottlerocket-need-a-good-comedy/341740/3 "2006-01-26T20:13:45Z")

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The two funniest movies of last summer were Wedding Crashers and The 40 Year Old Virgin.  
(at least IMHO)

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**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-huckabees-lebowski-bottlerocket-need-a-good-comedy/341740/4 "2006-01-26T20:45:01Z")

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> Have you seen Wes Anderson’s other movies? Bottle Rocket was very good, but I think he’s improved immensely as a filmmaker since then. Rushmore is great, and The Royal Tennenbaums is my favorite film ever made. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a step down, and probably his most challanging film, but still well worth it.

Seen and love them all. My girlfriend hasn’t, though…

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> The two funniest movies of last summer were Wedding Crashers and The 40 Year Old Virgin.

We were thinking about the 40 Year old Virgin.