Bean 1997  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Smith
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Burt Reynolds, Larry Drake, John Mills, Danny Goldring, Johnny Galecki, Chris Ellis, Andrew Lawrence, Peter Egan, Peter Capaldi, June Brown, Peter James
When an ineffective museum caretaker, Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson), arrives in Los Angeles to preside at an art gallery exhibit featuring the famous painting, "Whistler's Mother," young curator David Langley (Peter MacNicol) is forced to put up with Bean's havoc-producing antics.
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 Blackball 2003  R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: National Lampoon's Blackball
Director: Mel Smith
Cast: Paul Kaye, James Cromwell, Alice Evans, Bernard Cribbins, Vince Vaughn, Johnny Vegas, Imelda Staunton, Ian McNeice, James Fleet, David Ryall, Kenneth Cranham, Felicity Montagu
Aggressive, youthful, arrogant Cliff (Paul Kaye) is a lawn bowls superstar and intends on being part of the British team when it meets rival Australia. To do this he must beat current champion Ray (James Cromwell) who does not care for the antics of Cliff. The competition between the two becomes more personal when Cliff starts dating Ray's daughter, Kerry (Alice Evans).
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Brain Donors 1992  PG, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: John Turturro, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith, Nancy Marchand, George De La Pena, John Savident, Spike Alexander, Juliana Donald, Teri Copley, Irene Olga Lopez, Gary Grossman, Dick Monday
In this redo of the Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera," a lawyer (John Turturro), a cab driver (Mel Smith), and a handyman (Bob Nelson) team up to take control of a ballet company run by wealthy Lillian Oglethorpe (Nancy Marchand).
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Bullshot Crummond 1983 PG, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Bullshot
Director: Dick Clement
Cast: Alan Shearman, Diz White, Ronald E. House, Frances Tomelty, Michael Aldridge, Ron Pember, Mel Smith, Christopher Good, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Bayldon
The dastardly German World War I flying ace Count Otto von Bruno (Ronald E. House) tries to get his hands on a top-secret device, and the inventor's daughter, Rosemary (Diz White), calls on World War I flying hero-turned Olympian racer, auto racer, crime solver, etc. Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond (Alan Shearman) to save the day. Thus starts the zany antics of our hero who itches to renew his battles with the baron.
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 High Heels and Low Lifes 2001 R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Smith
Cast: Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Kevin McNally, Mark Williams, Danny Dyer, Michael Gambon, Darren Boyd, Simon Scardifield, Len Collin, Jane Partridge
In this crime/comedy, nurse Shannon (Minnie Driver) and her friend, Frances (Mary McCormack), overhear a phone conversation about a bank heist, which leads the two women into a plan to blackmail the robbers.
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Morons from Outer Space 1985 PG-13, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, James Sikking, Paul Brown, Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Tristram Jellinek, George Innes, John Joyce, Mark Lewis Jones
Yes, aliens can also be stupid, and this movie is, at times, also stupid. While the least moronic alien, Bernard (Mel Smith), is out of the spaceship playing Space Ball, the other three accidentally shoot the pod they are in to the planet–Earth–below. They land, and the hilarity begins while Bernard hitches a ride with another alien ship. Some funny moments.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation 1985 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama
aka: European Vacation
Director: Amy Heckerling
Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Eric Idle, Victor Lanoux, John Astin, Paul Bartel, Mel Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Lively, Didier Pain, Cynthia Szigeti, Malcolm Danare, Kevi Kendall, William Zabka
The Griswold family is back at it again. This time, Clark and Ellen (Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo) and their children Rusty and Audrey (Jason Lively and Dana Hill) compete on a family game show and win a trip to Europe. There is plenty of trouble awaiting them in Europe–from London where Clark must learn to drive a European car, to Paris where their camcorder is stolen, and then on to Germany to meet relatives IF they can find the correct home. All of this culminates in the camcorder thief selling erotic pictures of Ellen and then Ellen being kidnapped by other thieves. By the vacation's end, the Griswold family is very happy to return to American soil.
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 The Princess Bride 1987  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Andre The Giant, Fred Savage, Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright Penn, Peter Falk, Billy Crystal, Peter Cook, Carol Kane, Mel Smith, Margery Mason, Anne Dyson
To cheer up his sick grandson (Fred Savage), Grandpa (Peter Falk) reads him a story, and, as he reads, the action comes to life. The tale is one of love and adventure in which the evil Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon) captures the fair damsel Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn). Now the gallant, but poor, stable boy Westley (Cary Elwes) rides to the rescue. Will Grandpa be able to finish the story without including all of the kissing scenes that his grandson does not want to hear?
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Radioland Murders 1994 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Smith
Cast: Brian Benben, Ned Beatty, Mary Stuart Masterson, Michael Lerner, George Burns, Peter MacNicol, Brion James, Michael McKean, Robert Klein, Corbin Bernsen, Christopher Lloyd, Jim McKeny
The year is 1939, and station WBN is about to make its debut in Chicago. Opening night a series of murders begins, and it is up to police Lieutenant Cross (Michael Lerner) to solve the crimes.
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The Tall Guy 1989 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Smith
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson, Geraldine James, Emil Wolk, Anna Massey, Kim Thomson, Hugh Thomas, Harold Innocent, Joanna Kanska
An American actor, Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum), is performing in London in a two-man show with an obnoxious cohort, Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson). Anderson steals the show and eventually fires Dexter but not before Dexter meets and falls in love with a nurse, Kate Lemmon (Emma Thompson). So far, so good–until Kate accuses him of cheating on her, and Dexter must now try to get her back. Not a bad romantic comedy.
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Twelfth Night: Or What You Will 1996 PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
aka: Twelfth Night
Director: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Imogen Stubbs, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, Toby Stephens, Mel Smith, Imelda Staunton, Steven Mackintosh, Nicholas Farrell, Sydney Livingstone, James Walker, Alan Mitchell, Peter Gunn, Tim Bentinck
When Viola's (Imogen Stubbs) ship is capsized by a storm, she is washed ashore in the kingdom of Ilyria. She disguises herself as her own brother and enters the court of Count Orsino (Toby Stephens) who loves the fair Lady Olivia (Helena Bonham Carter). Viola falls in love with Orsino, but he believes that Viola is a man and asks her to help him gain the love of Lady Olivia. Matters worsen when Viola finds that Lady Olivia has fallen in love with her. Misadventures follow with the entire household involved in their own mischievous plots.
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| 1. Bean (1997)
2. Blackball (2003)
aka: National Lampoon's Blackball
3. Brain Donors (1992)
4. Bullshot Crummond (1983)
aka: Bullshot
5. High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
6. Morons from Outer Space (1985)
7. National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
aka: European Vacation
8. The Princess Bride (1987)
9. Radioland Murders (1994)
10. The Tall Guy (1989)
11. Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
aka: Twelfth Night
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