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The Top 50 Best Sci-Fi Comedy Films. by kjtenorman • Created 7 years ago • Modified 4 years ago. A chronological list of my favorite sci-fi comedy films. Note: horror-comedies are only included that involve scientific experimentation in some capacity. Follow me on Letterboxd for more great film lists: https://letterboxd.com/kjtenorman.
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- Back to the Future (1985) Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson. Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi (1h 56m) 8.5 on IMDb — 93% on RT.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis. Action, Adventure, Comedy (2h 19m)
- Poor Things (2023) Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe. Comedy, Drama, Romance (2h 21m) 8.4 on IMDb — 93% on RT. Poor Things isn't a movie to watch if you're easily freaked out.
- Ghostbusters (1984) Directed by Ivan Reitman. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver. Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi (1h 45m) 7.8 on IMDb — 95% on RT.
- Galaxy Quest. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman. 256 votes. In Galaxy Quest, a group of washed-up TV actors, led by Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen), find themselves in an interstellar dilemma.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Franchise. Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper. 204 votes. Guardians of the Galaxy is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name.
- Back to the Future Franchise. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson. 220 votes. The Back to the Future franchise is an American science fictioncomedy film series written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Universal Pictures.
- Men in Black. Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino. 184 votes. In the sci-fi comedy flick, Men in Black, we meet Jay (Will Smith), a New York City cop, and Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), a seasoned agent from a covert organization.
- 9 Twins
- 8 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- 7 Hot Tub Time Machine
- 6 Sleeper
- 5 Idiocracy
- 4 Men in Black
- 3 Back to The Future Part II
- 2 The Man with Two Brains
- 1 Ghostbusters
In Twins, directed by the fantastic Ivan Reitman (no stranger to the sci-fi/comedy scene), a set of twins are split at birth: one, a fantastic mind and the perfect specimen, and the other a gambling degenerate loser. The year is 1988. Who are the two biggest stars on the planet, who look universes apart from one another? Certainly a one-note idea b...
Arguably improving on the original, and now far more confident in what it is, The Spy Who Shagged Me would take its characters to space (and simultaneously spoof Moonraker) in a story about love-machine Austin Powers' "mojo" being kidnapped by Dr Evil (both played by Mike Myers). Leaning more in to its sci-fi elements here, this sequel's plot would...
Perhaps more of a surprise choice on our list here, but we're confident in Hot Tub Time Machine's inclusion. With a cast that gels so well together (Craig Robinson and Rob Corddry here really finally got to shine as main characters), the chemistry between the four men pops and pings as the runtime flies by. Related: Exclusive: Steve Pink Discusses ...
In an ambitious plotline, Woody Allen is cryogenically frozen and revived in the year 2173 in a bid to infiltrate the current police state of the time. Pre-dating Star Wars, this feels like it's set adjacent to the violent world of Rollerball (which Sleeper also pre-dates) but as a very silly reflection. Watch as Allen spends most of the time clown...
In the amazingly quirky premise of Idiocracy, a nondescript man is sent to the future, where humanity and its intelligence has hit rock bottom. As someone from the past, despite being average, he is immediately recognized as the smartest man on the planet. The muscled, rock star-haired Terry Crews as President Camacho is one of the best on-screen M...
Will Smith has only lost his way over the last decade, but his star power knows no bounds in the cool-as-ice sci-fi film Men in Black, which would put his star on the map. When a street-wise cop is drafted into a secret organization, his eyes are opened to the everyday reality that, no, we are not alone in the universe. Blending incredible practica...
Perhaps not a comedy per-se (more like a lighthearted sci-fi with a fun disposition), but would be wrong not to include it here. Expanding on the first film without feeling like a rehash, Back to The Future Part II cleverly readdresses the first film's events, scene for scene even, but twists it on its head to alter the future. The villainous Biff ...
Get that cat out of here! Catching Steve Martin at his comedy heights (Three Amigos and Little Shop of Horrors would follow three years later), The Man With Two Brains finds Martin playing a brilliant neurosurgeon stuck in a Mexican stand-off between two women he loves. With a scatterbrained plot about a killer on the loose and the swapping of brai...
Inevitable, really. When considering such an elusive scientific anomaly like the sci-fi/comedy, Ghostbusters will be mentioned every single time. Bringing together the hottest comic actors at the time (and a wonderful supporting cast with Rick Moranis, Janine Melnitz, and Sigourney Weaver, above) in one big movie, and pitching them against some spe...
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- 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (2004) Director Michel Gondry and writer Charlie Kauffman created one of the best pictures in cinematic history with their 2004 sci-fi romantic comedy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
- 'WALL-E' (2008) Pixar has several great movies, but 2008's soulful sci-fi WALL-E might be the studio's crowning jewel. The story revolves around the titular character, a waste disposal robot living alone on a heavily contaminated futuristic Earth.
- 'Her' (2013) Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix stars in Spike Jonze's brilliantly creative and foretelling sci-fi comedy Her. Phoenix plays Theodore, a writer who composes personal letters for a living and develops an intimate relationship with his AI virtual assistant, voiced by an alluring Scarlett Johansson.
- 'Sorry to Bother You' (2018) Lakeith Stanfield stars in Boots Riley's 2018 surreal sci-fi black comedy Sorry to Bother You. The plot revolves around a Black man who stumbles upon a dangerous conspiracy at his company, forcing him to choose between his greed and values.
Mar 6, 2024 · Subverting genres with comedy in sci-fi is risky but hilarious when successful, creating iconic films loved for decades. Movies like Meet Dave, Mars Attacks!, and The World's End blend...
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