Down to Earth (2001)
Feb 16, 2001Afterlife Mixup/Race Reversal Comedy
Remake of Heaven Can Wait/Here Comes Mr Jordan as a vehicle for comedian Chris Rock where the heavenly body mix-up now becomes about a black man ending up in a white man's body
Jennifer Coolidge
Pootie Tang in “Sine Your Pitty on the Runy Kine” (2001)
Jan 26, 2001Funky Incomprehensible Superhero
Film based on a Saturday Night Life sketch with Lance Crouther as a superhero who speaks a nonsense babble
A Cinderella Story (2004)
Oct 4, 2004Modernised Cinderella
A contemporary take on Cinderella that relocates the story to a modern high school with a downtrodden Hillary Duff trying to make it to the prom
Robots (2005)
Apr 11, 2005Animation/Cute Robots
Enjoyably likeable animated film from Blue Sky Studios set in a world inhabited by robots. Lots of visual invention and madcap slapstick
Date Movie (2006)
Mar 13, 2006Romance Movie Parody
The first film from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, a parody of a various romance movies. The duo went on to make some of the excruciating and unfunny comedies of the next decade
Click (2006)
Jun 21, 2006Remote Control to Life Comedy
An Adam Sandler comedy in which he is an ordinary family man who is given a magical remote control that allows him to pause and fast forward his way through the boring bits of his life
Epic Movie (2007)
Feb 11, 2007Parodies of Various Films
Probably the worst of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer witless and painfully unfunny films – this just consists of a series of vulgar gags run over a bunch of scenes from films that came out in the last twelve months
Dr Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008)
Aug 13, 2009Teenager That Can Speak to Animals
The second of the video-released Dr Dolittle films featuring his teenage daughter Kyla Pratt. This is marginally better and less excruciating in its humour than its predecessor Dr. Dolittle 3 was
Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
Nov 30, 2009Novice Science-Fiction Writer/Nerd Comedy
Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess visits the same territory with this comedy in which teenager Michael Angarano has his manuscript stolen by SF writer Jemaine Clement
The Emoji Movie (2017)
Dec 4, 2017Animation/The Lives of Talking Emojis
An animated film that bizarrely speculates that the emojis in your text messages are actually living entities that have lives inside the phone. A not-too-well-thought out concept that leaves you with strange questions about its world
The Watcher (2022)
Oct 28, 2022True Crime/Family Terrorised by a Mystery Letter Writer
Compulsively watchable Ryan Murphy mini-series about a family whose life is torn apart by a sinister letter-writing campaign. A true story that gets far most bizarre than most fiction
We Have a Ghost (2023)
Mar 10, 2023Ghost Comedy
Christopher Landon, director of Happy Death Day and Freaky, makes a comedy about a family who turn the ghost in their house into a viral sensation
A Minecraft Movie (2025)
May 31, 2025Videogame Adaptation
A live-action film based on the popular videogame with Jack Black and Jason Momoa venturing into a brick-based otherworld. This was a reasonable hit.