Comedy

• Dream Scenario | DVD | (04/03/2024) from £15.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Trading Places | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Eddie Murphy established himself as a comedy superstar in his role as streetwise hustler Billy Ray Valentine. Fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus Dan Aykroyd co-stars as Louis Winthorpe III a wealthy investment executive at Duke Brothers a Wall Street firm. The fun begins when the rich and greedy Duke Brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet over whether born loser Valentine could become as successful as the priggish Winthorpe if circumstances are reversed. The Dukes have the money to make this happen but when Valentine and Winthorpe catch on they arrange for a rich and riotous payback!

• Ted - Extended Edition (DVD + Digital Copy + UV Copy) | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £3.74   |  Saving you £16.25 (434.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anyone who's watched Family Guy knows that its creator Seth MacFarlane has a lot of hang-ups. As outrageous as many of them are in their animated TV show forum, they get a real rundown in Ted, MacFarlane's multi-hyphenate debut in feature films. As the director, producer, cowriter, and voice artist behind the title character, MacFarlane riffs on pop culture, drug culture, religion, sex, bodily functions, and all things '80s with the kind of abandon that borders on offensive to pretty much anyone--if only it all weren't so spot-on funny. Ted is an utterly believable CGI teddy bear who comes to life in the arms of a friendless 8-year-old boy named John, who quickly grows up to be Mark Wahlberg. John has made a wish that the pudgy plush be a friend for forever, a deal that they both hold on to with genuine poignancy as the years roll by. Ted grows right along with John in voice, manner, attitude, and bad habits until they're both unmotivated layabouts who would rather do nothing more than swill beer, smoke dope, and watch the absurdly iconic '80s movie Flash Gordon over and over again to the exclusion of most everything else in life. John has managed to pick up a girlfriend named Lori (Mila Kunis), who somehow tolerates the pair of them--at least for a little while. Eventually she's annoyed enough with John for not putting away his childish things, thoughts, and behaviours that she demands Ted move out and let them move on as adults. Among all the conceits that Ted embraces is the fact that this fully anthropomorphized stuffed bear started life as a global celebrity sensation before everyone forgot about him. Now he's just a blue-collar Boston nobody who sucks on a bong, chases women, and makes dirty jokes at every opportunity while nobody pays attention. This could have been a generic lowbrow buddy movie in the Judd Apatow mold, which might have been a little funny with a human slob in the Ted role. But MacFarlane brings to the remarkably expressive CGI creation an astonishing and often shocking dynamic with his voice characterization and the consistently clever situations, which whiz by in a structure that's pretty similar to an episode of Family Guy. There are frequent non sequitur digressions and offhanded one-liners that MacFarlane could never get away with on TV. But in the raunchy, anything-goes world of Ted it's all fair game. In addition to farts, drugs, bodily functions, and all manner of sexual vulgarity, it's the slams or homages to the 1980s that are the butt of many of the best zingers or recurring jokes. There are several cameo appearances that may make for delighted double takes. And Sam Jones, the star of the ill-fated Flash Gordon, plays a version of himself that makes a running gag all the more ingenious and demonstrates how far MacFarlane will go to bring comedy down to his level of hilarity. Mark Wahlberg should be commended for being game enough to participate and absolutely shows the comedy chops to make his scenes with Ted come alive. Technically the movie is a wonder as the two-foot Ted blends into the real world with complete believability even as he spouts some of the most outrageous dialogue this side of The Hangover. Ted may be an acquired taste for those who have a dislike for MacFarlane's comic sensibility--and there are a lot of people who do. But as a laughable lowbrow adventure that delivers virtually nonstop unexpected laughs with a little heart to back it up, Ted is a surprising comic novelty that may even win over some of the most vituperative MacFarlane haters. --Ted Fry

• Elf | DVD | (29/08/2016) from £5.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Blaze | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Academy Award-winner Paul Newman (1986 - Best Actor The Color Of Money) scorches the screen in this hilarious sexy comedy from the creator of Bull Durham. Newman stars as a fiery eccentric governor who falls head over heels in love with the dazzling Blaze Starr (sensational Lolita Davidovich) an innocent New Orleans stripper with a heart of gold. Forced to choose between the office he holds and the woman he loves he chooses both...igniting an outrageous scandal full of trouble

• Full Frontal | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £3.43   |  Saving you £12.82 (590.78%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Steven Soderbergh's contemporary comedy about life and love in 24 hours of LA life.

• Keeping Up With The Joneses | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £5.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies.

• Confetti | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £4.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (226.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Confetti" follows three couples as they duke it out to win a bridal magazine contest for "Most Original Wedding of the Year."

• Josie And The Pussycats | DVD | (17/12/2001) from £7.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (125.44%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the 70s comic book and cartoon show, this is the tale of a girl band that tries to stop the government and record companies corrupting the nation's youth.

• Four Lions | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (228.90%)   |  RRP £22.99

  It really shouldn’t work. A black comedy that’s basically about four terrorists, planning an atrocity on UK soil? That’s surely a film that’s designed to wind up tabloid newspapers? In the wrong hands, it certainly could have been. But under the diligent stewardship of Chris Morris, Four Lions emerges as one of the best films of the year. It’s a perfectly pitched, at times rightly uncomfortable comedy, that brings together a quartet of inept terrorists, who when we meet them, can’t even put a video together without it falling into farce. It’s an opening scene that sets up Four Lions perfectly. And led by the terrific Riz Ahmed and the scene-stealing Nigel Lindsay, the company of actors rise to the challenge that Chris Morris sets them. Four Lions isn’t a perfect film, though. The tone is a little uneven at times, and it’s very much one that’s going to feel more at home on a television than a cinema screen. But it’s still a daring, risky and at times extremely funny piece of work. And it’s one not afraid to pull the rug on you, either, never shielding itself away from the undercurrents of its subject matter. It’s the most ambitious comedy in a long, long time, and it’s credit to all concerned that it works as well as it does. --Simon Brew

• Tamara Drewe | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £4.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (262.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Once the ugly duckling of the rural Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns as a glamorous high flying journalist, ruffling feathers, rekindling old passions and shaking up the sleepy village with hilarious and heart-warming consequences.

• No Sex Please, We're British | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Carry On Cleo | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (187.73%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Kenneth Williams' Julius Caesar is having a bad day in the funniest toga party of all time - a historical and hysterical take on the life and loves of the Queen of the Nile. Follow the amorous adventures of Sidney James' Mark Anthony as he clinches with the gorgeous Amanda Barrie's sultry Cleopatra in by far the most lavish looking of all the Carry On films. With a brilliant Carry On cast including Jim Dale Jon Pertwee Charles Hawtrey Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor as Hengist Pod inventor of the square wheel! Special Features: Audio Commentary Trailer Stills Gallery

• The Brittas Empire - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Whitbury Leisure Centre is preparing to celebrate its first anniversary but as usual where Brittas (Chris Barrie) is concerned things go far from smoothly. Among other incidents Brittas gets sent to the dock accused of murder sent to Coventry by his staff and sent a mysterious parcel containing a large dead spider... Includes complete series 3 with 4 previously unreleased episodes! Episodes comprise: 1. The Trial 2. That Creeping Feeling 3. Laura's Leaving 4. Two Little B

• Billy Connolly - World Tour Of Scotland | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £35.23   |  Saving you £-10.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Across six episodes Billy Connolly's odyssey takes in Scotland in all its diversity stopping off for some stand up comedy involving sex religion and knitting...

• Babe - Pig In The City | DVD | (01/01/2009) from £4.96   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Deservedly acclaimed as one of 1998's best films, this sequel to the beloved 1995 live-action fantasy proved a commercial catastrophe and a source of dismay to parents expecting another bucolic, sweet-natured fable. Every bit as sly and visually stunning as its predecessor, Babe: Pig in the City is otherwise a jolting ride beyond the Hoggetts' farm into a no less vivid but far darker world--the allegorical city of the title, which for the diminutive "sheep pig" proves truly nightmarish. Australian filmmaker George Miller (Mad Max, The Road Warrior), who produced and cowrote the first film, this time takes the director's reins, and he ratchets up the pace and the peril as effectively as he did on his influential trilogy of apocalyptic, outback sci-fi thrillers. From the opening scene, Babe: Pig in the City means to disrupt the reassuring calm achieved by the conclusion of the previous film. Babe's prior triumph proves short-lived, and within moments Miller has us literally peering into the depths as he sets up a horrific well accident that nearly kills the taciturn but good-hearted Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell), Babe's beloved "Boss." Journeying with the equally pink, even plumper Mrs. Hoggett (Magda Szubanski), the young pig finds himself in a city where animals are outcasts, staying in the lone hotel that allows pets. When Mrs. Hoggett is detained, Babe must contend with the suspicions and rivalries of the hotel's other four-legged guests. The film's G status doesn't fully telegraph the shock Miller induces: bad things happen to good animals, and Babe's new acquaintances are a far cry from his colleagues on the farm. In particular, he must contend with a cynical family of chimps given wonderful, dead-pan voice characterisations by Steven Wright and Glenne Headly. Miller's use of effects to transform his animals into "actors" is even more seamlessly integrated than in Babe. The sequel's production design is crucial to the creation of a complete, absorbing world, and purely visual ideas--such as a deluge of blue balloons during the climactic ballroom battle--achieve a splendour and originality that a room full of computer-graphics desktops couldn't muster. Ultimately, though, the film does more than amaze: as Babe's compassion and courage transform those around him, we're moved in ways that purveyors of by-the-numbers family fare can only dream of. --Sam Sutherland

• At Last The 1948 Show | DVD | (17/01/2007) from £5.38   |  Saving you £1.61 (29.93%)   |  RRP £6.99

  John Cleese Graham Chapman and many more headline this historic comedy series which directly preceded and inspired Monty Python. With every episode a string of wildly silly and hilarious sketches it deserves to achieve immortal status.

• Slappy And The Stinkers | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £3.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (71.63%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stinkers Rule! Others Drool! Five kid prodigies hatch a plan to rescue the sea lion Slappy from an aquarium. However there are two drawbacks - Slappy doesn't want to be rescued and he's already been marked for abduction by a dangerous mercenary who's trying to sell Slappy to a Bulgarian circus!

• Down Periscope | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (57.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Batten down the hatches for unstoppable hilarity that takes 200 years of naval tradition...and throws it overboard! Veteran skipper John Dodge (Grammer) will never be a textbook officer but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine. Unfortunately Dodge is given the helm of a diesel powered WWII sub crewed by a collection of maladjusted and mistake-prone misfits. When he's tagged 'the enemy' in a crucial war game Dodge is ordered to take on the U.

• Condorman | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £8.25   |  Saving you £6.74 (81.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Woody Wilkins (Michael Crawford) an inventive comic book writer turns into a bumbling spy and is catapulted on a jet-setting trip around the world as Condorman the comic book hero he created. The problems - and the hilarity - start when Woody falls in love with a Russian agent Natalia (Barbara Carrera) and sets about helping her defect to the United States. However Natalia's old flame KGB agent Krokov (Oliver Reed) isn't about to let his prize get away. Krokov has every one of his agents on the run trying to prevent ""Condorman"" from aiding Natalia's escape. Crazy disguises high-tech gadgets and hair-raising fun abound in this light-hearted comic adventure. Available on DVD for the first time.