We’ve watched plenty of comedy movies ranging from the uproariously funny to the kind of crassness that keeps families from watching movies together at all. What exactly does make a funny movie? Check out our picks for the top 10 comedies below and let us know which of these films is your family-favorite.

Jump to top 10 comedies

• 1 UHF
• 2 Ernest Goes to School
• 3 Mobsters and Mormons
• 4 Ernest in the Army
• 5 Grumpy Cat Christmas
• 6 Slam Dunk Ernest
• 7 Suburban Commando
• 8 Honey I Shrunk the Kids
• 9 What About Bob?
• 10 I Think My Babysitter is an Alien

Summary

Katie and Glenn’s dad is an astronaut who brings home a piece of a asteroid from deep space. Nothing is amiss until strange new neighbors move in, and they aren’t exactly from upstate. They’re aliens. The children become suspicious of their new neighbor/babysitter’s actions and determine to find out who she really is and what she is up to.

Summary

  Just when psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin is preparing to leave for his annual summer vacation, He acquires an odd patient by the name of Bob Wiley. Dr. Marvin, finds that he simply cannot get along  with Bob no matter how hard he tries; so he packs and leaves hoping his troubles are left behind. Bob, however, thinking the vacation is some sort of an extended treatment, tags along. Read full review.

Summary

Professor Wayne Szalinski is busily developing on his his latest invention, a shrinking ray. Wayne was working on ironing out a few bugs in the system when his children inadvertently activated the device and shrunk themselves smaller than Cheerios. The professor and his wife, Diane, begin a frantic search for their kids hoping that they can find them before they are claimed by one of the many dangers lurking in their own backyard.

Summary

After being forced to make a crash landing on earth, galactic enforcer Shep Ramsey (Hulk Hogan) tries to keep a low profile and moves into the midst of suburbia to live with Charlie Wilcox and his family. The Wilcox’s are’t exactly excited to be living right across the backyard from a space vigilante but things get even stranger when Ramses’ intergalactic enemies show up forcing Shep to become a suburban commando.

Summary

       Ernest P. Worrell messes up almost everything. His tendency to fail makes it hard for him to keep his job. When he finally gets a chance to play on his boss’s team, the Clean Sweeps, he is shunned by his friends. One day in the locker room, he meets an angel who bears resemblance to professional player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The angel presents him with a pair of shoes–shoes that allow Ernest to become the dream player he always wanted to be! Read full review.

Summary

Poor Grumpy Cat has a reason to be unhappy. Nobody cares about her, and she looks to spend Christmas unwanted at the mall pet shop she calls home. That is, until a girl named Crystal befriends her and discovers that Grumpy can talk! The friends work together to stop mall crooks and end up having the best (in Grumpy Cat’s opinion worst) Christmas ever.

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Ernest joins the army, thinking he will enjoy all the fun of military life (like driving the big rigs) but he soon discovers that army life isn’t as easy as his buddies make it out to be. Ernest and his fellow Army reserves are called into combat on a special mission in the Middle East. A local dictator has been causing all the trouble but when he meets Ernest’s corps, he realizes he is dead meat.

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Carmine “The Beans” Pasquale falls for an FBI sting and has to testify against his mafia boss to escape charges. Regarded as a traitor to his organization, he enters the Witness Protection Program and is relocated in suburban Utah. Assigned the name George Cheeseman, the former mobster and his family have difficulty adapting to the Mormon community. The clash between Cheeseman’s manners and those of his unoffensive neighbors is one you will not soon forget! The twist at the end comes unexpectedly.

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Ernest must find a way to graduate High School when a new policy puts his job as janitor at risk. After proving why he never finished school, Ernest ends up participating in a behind the scenes science experiment which turns him into a genius.Packed with laughs for the entire family. Ernest goes to School is a Ernest classic.

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George Newman and his best friend Bob are out of work until George’s uncle gives him free rein over his small UHF TV station. George tries hard to make the channel a success, but resistance from a dominant rival, Channel 8, drives his station towards bankruptcy. The janitor Stanley Spadowski, leads a desperate comeback to save the station. UHF is filled with great skits satirizing just about anything under the sun. we’ve included some of our favorites under the see more section.