Parody movies
Comedy that spoofs a genre or style, exaggerating familiar clichés and references for laughs.
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A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.
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252. Shanghai Knights
Action Adventure Comedy Western Buddy Action2003•1h 55min
Hong Kong SAR China, United States
Director: David Dobkin
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When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
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253. Austin Powers in Goldmember
Comedy Crime Science Fiction Parody2002•1h 34min
United States
Director: Jay Roach
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The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.
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254. Men in Black II
Action Comedy Science Fiction Buddy Action Parody2002•1h 28min
United States
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.
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255. Interstate 60
Adventure Comedy Fantasy Drama Globetrotting Adventure2002•1h 56min
Canada, United States
Director: Bob Gale
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An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
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256. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Family Fantasy Comedy Adventure Holiday Family2002•1h 48min
France, Germany
Director: Alain Chabat
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History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.
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257. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Comedy Action Parody Martial Arts Action2002•1h 21min
United States
Director: Steve Oedekerk
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A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.
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Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
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Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain—until the legendary Papa Muntz' son decides to sell the mountain to a sleazy land developer, have the staff fired and turn Bull Mountain into 'Yuppieville'.
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Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
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