Comedy Bucket List

Two agents in black suits neuralyse New York; the alien comedy that defined a summer.

Two con artists press-ganged into an FBI sting, in the loudest costume design of the decade.

Two years, three sisters and a hypochondriac; the warmest film Woody Allen made.

An armed forces radio DJ in 1965 Saigon, improvising his way past the censors.

An obsessive-compulsive con man meets the teenage daughter he did not know about.

A mailroom clerk is made president so the stock will crash; instead he invents the hula hoop.

A saxophonist, a runaway and a petty thief rob their way to the sea; the second flop before Joint Security Area.

An ex-con and a policewoman steal one of a furniture magnate's quintuplets; Nicolas Cage in a stocking mask.

A 1950s studio fixer spends a day recovering a kidnapped star; “would that it were so simple”.

Lupin III robs a tiny principality of counterfeiters; Miyazaki's first feature, and the car chase Spielberg praised.

A jobless lecturer starts getting rid of the dogs in his apartment block; Bong's debut.

A divorce lawyer with an unbeatable prenup meets a serial bride; the Coens do screwball.

Shrek signs away a day of his old life to Rumpelstiltskin and wakes in an ogre resistance.

Shrek looks for someone else to inherit Far Far Away and finds Arthur at a medieval high school.

The minions try to shoot a monster picture in 1927 Hollywood and let real monsters out.

Gru with a new baby and a witness-protection move, after Maxime Le Mal breaks out of prison.

The Browns take Paddington home to Peru to find Aunt Lucy, and the search goes up the Amazon.

Five men attempt the twelve-pub crawl they failed at eighteen and find the town replaced.

Screams power a city until a toddler gets in; Pixar's door chase.

Po has to name a successor and hunt the Chameleon, a sorceress who steals the skills of everyone he has already beaten.

Po finds his birth father and a hidden panda village while Kai collects the chi of dead masters.

Riley turns thirteen and Anxiety takes the console; the highest-grossing animated film until Ne Zha 2 passed it.

A noodle-shop panda becomes the Dragon Warrior; the fight on the steps.

Judy and Nick are partners now and disagree about everything; a pit viper turns up in a city that has had no snakes for a century.

Ash is thrown back to 1300 with a chainsaw, a shotgun and an incantation he cannot remember correctly.

The crew fly a captured Klingon bird-of-prey back to 1986 San Francisco to fetch two humpback whales.