Comedy > Oz, Frank Comedy > O > 15 years and over

Advantages: Funny, black humour
Disadvantages: Didn't get it the first time

Daniel is devastated when his father dies, but his stiff upper lip prevails and he arranges the funeral, carefully planning everything. Unfortunately, the funeral home doesn't take as much care, because when the coffin is delivered, the body inside is not the right one...After this fiasco, everything else goes wrong too. Daniel's successful author brother, Robert, turns up, claiming that he has no money and cannot afford to pay for his half of the ...
...boyfriend Simon and her hapless brother, Troy. Friend Howard comes with miserable Uncle Albert and lecherous Justin in tow. And then there is the mysterious height-challenged Peter who has a secret that Daniel doesn't like. Will the funeral turn into a free for all? Or will Daniel somehow manage to pull it off? As you can perhaps expect from a film about a funeral, there are lots of characters involved in the film and it is initially a bit confusing ... Read review

Advantages: Really funny, great cast, hilarious situations, clever, witty
Disadvantages: Ewen Bremner

...on Virgin Media and chose Death at a Funeral. I had wanted to see it when it was on at the cinema, but hadn't got round to it. I like British films and the cast in this one is very impressive, so it looked my kind of thing. The plot revolves around a funeral - as you can guess by the title. As the family of the deceased come to see him off, we have a number of elements brought in - the elderly relative in a wheelchair, the feuding brothers, the ...
...Hawes (Loved her in Ashes to Ashes), but ended up being blown away by Alan Tudyk and Andy Nyman. I would definitely recommend this film. I loved it. Death at a Funeral was released in 2007, it is rated a 15 and lasts 97 minutes. ... Read review

Advantages: Lovely idea, heart warming and funny.
Disadvantages: A little bit typical.

In 'Run, fat boy, Run' Simon Pegg plays a loser dad who ran out on his pregnant fiancée on the day they were getting married. For 5 years he has desperately attempted to win her back and has beaten himself up so many times about leaving her and whether he was ready to win her back. But when she starts seeing a new boyfriend, who seems polite, charming and brilliant, Pegg thinks he is beaten but decides to try even harder to win his ex-fiancée(Thandie ...
...- running the marathon. It's the perfect answer as the new boyfriend has run many marathons. However there is one problem; Pegg is now where near fit, he can't eve run to the end of the street without taking a rest!!! But with lots of training and little bit of help from his friends Pegg begins to become a marathon runner. But then disaster strikes and Pegg decides to give up. Then discovering that his little boy would be moving to Chicago he decides ... Read review

Advantages: fantastic all round smutty humour
Disadvantages: none... if you can handle smut

Creator and writer: Jonathan Harvey. Directors: Liddy Oldroyd and Tristram Shapeero Producers: John Plowman, Peter Bennett-Jones and mark Chapman Stars: Kathy Burke, James Dreyfus, Beth Goddard, Brian Bovell and Rosalind Knight. Released for the BBC in early 1999 running through until December 2001, creating 18 episodes, at 25 minutes each, split into 3 series, together with a Millennium special… and give a 15 certificate for very obvious reason ...
...IDEA ** Starring the funny Kathy Burke as Linda La Hughes, a fiery loud mouth woman with a mass of ginger hair and big white glasses covering her face, who, although being rather unattractive, sees herself as the most beautiful person on the planet, and James Dreyfus as Tom Farrell, her gay out of work actor flatmate who is so desperate to be loved he tries it on with anyone he sees, but constantly fails at friendship. They share a flat who they ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, hilarious, amusing
Disadvantages: None, watch it!

Peter Bretter (Jason Segal) is a successful composer who has it all. Fantastic apartment, good looks, great job and a celebrity girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell) to drool over. When his girlfriend's crime show is dropped from TV, he is also dropped as composer to the show. Then Sarah confesses that she has found someone else and is breaking up with him. Devastated, Peter runs away to Hawaii to help himself forget Sarah, but unknowingly he ...
...her new beau. Whilst recovering from Sarah's shocking appearance, Peter meets up with hotel staff member Rachael Jenson (Mila Kunis), and slowly begins to see things in a different light. This film is absolutely hilarious. Russell Brand completely steals the limelight and delights with his spot on timing and vast portfolio of expressions. If you want to laugh into your sides are really really hurting, watch this movie ... Read review