2009 Movies : Comedy

With Bradley Cooper • Heather Graham • Zach Galifianakis • Todd Phillips • Ken Jeong • David Siegel • Justin Bartha • Jon Jashni • Ed Helms • Scott Moore • J.C. Spink • Jon Lucas • William Fay • Jeffrey Tambor • Chris Bender • Thomas Tull • Scott Budnick

Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three friends drive to Las Vegas for a blow-out bachelor party they'll never forget. But, in fact, when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning, they can't remember a thing. For some reason, they find a tiger in the bathroom and a six-month-old baby in the closet of their suite at Caesars Palace. The one thing they can't find is Doug. With no clue as to what transpired and little time to spare, the trio must retrace their hazy steps and all their bad decisions in order to figure out where things went wrong and hopefully get Doug back to L.A. in time to walk down the aisle.

With Will Ferrell • Adam McKay • Jorma Taccone • Daniel Lupi • Dennis McNicholas • Danny R. McBride • Jimmy Miller • Chris Henchy • Anna Friel • John Boylan • Brad Silberling • Julie Wixson Darmody • Marty Krofft • Sid Krofft

Space-time vortexes suck. Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, sucked into one and spat back through time. Way back. Now, Marshall has no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world—a place of spectacular sights and super-scaled comedy known as the Land of the Lost.

Sucked alongside him for the adventure are crack-smart research assistant Holly (Anna Friel) and a redneck survivalist (Danny McBride) named Will. Chased by T. rex and stalked by painfully slow reptiles known as Sleestaks, Marshall, Will and Holly must rely on their only ally—a primate called Chaka (Jorma Taccone)—to navigate out of the hybrid dimension. Escape from this routine expedition gone awry and they're heroes. Get stuck, and they'll be permanent refugees in the "Land of the Lost".

With Tom Hanks • Richard Dreyfuss • Nia Vardalos • Rachel Dratch • Mike Reiss • Williams • Caroline Goodall • Donald Petrie • Gary Goetzman • Nathalie Marciano

Georgia (Nia Vardalos) has lost her kefi (Greek for “mojo”). Discouraged by her lack of direction in life, she works as a travel guide, leading a rag-tag group of tourists as she tries to show them the beauty of her native Greece while waiting to land her dream job. Opening their eyes to an exotic foreign land, she too begins to see things in new ways—finding her kefi and possibly love in the process.

With John Krasinski • Allison Janney • Maya Rudolph • Sam Mendes • Chris Messina • Jeff Daniels • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Catherine O'Hara • Ed Saxon • Josh Hamilton • Melanie Lynskey • Dave Eggers • Vendela Vida

Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski [“The Office’] and Maya Rudolph [“Saturday Night Live’]), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover “home” on their own terms for the first time. The movie features the music of Alexi Murdoch.

With Eddie Murphy • Lorenzo di Bonaventura • Karey Kirkpatrick • Vanessa Williams • Chris Matheson • Thomas Haden Church • Ed Solomon • Ronny Cox • Nicole Ari Parker • DeRay Davis • Timm Sharp • Ric Kidney

In Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies’ family comedy, Eddie Murphy stars as a successful financial executive who has more time for his blackberry than his seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi). When he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts going down the drain, however, he finds the solution to all his problems in his daughter’s imaginary world.

With Molly Conners • Bill Dawes • Christopher Woodrow • Camille O'Sullivan • Stella Maeve • Gill Holland • Raina Ajami • Jake Pilikian • Pepper Binkley • Judith Hawking • Daniel Irizarry • Lee Wilkof • Alex Twersky

Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.

With Ryan Reynolds • Sandra Bullock • Alex Kurtzman • David Hoberman • Malin Akerman • Mary Steenburgen • Craig T. Nelson • Todd LIeberman • Peter Chiarelli • Anne Fletcher • Robert Orci • Pete Chiarelli • Betty White • Kristen Burr

When high-powered book editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

With Jack Black • Michael Cera • Christopher Mintz-Plasse • Olivia Wilde • Juno Temple • Owen Wilson • Judd Apatow • David Cross • Vinnie Jones • Harold Ramis • Jonathan Kadin • Hank Azaria • Oliver Platt • Matt Tolmach

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.

With Henry Cavill • Evan Rachel Wood • Michael McKean • Woody Allen • Patricia Clarkson • Kristen Johnston • Letty Aronson • Stephen Tenenbaum • Larry David • Steve Antonucci

A highly eccentric character played by Larry David runs into a young girl from the South and soon after, her mother and soon after, her father. The three of them, along with Larry David's crazy Greenwich Village friends, get into a series of highly improbable, far out, romantic entanglements.