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- Back to the Future (1985) Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson. Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi (1h 56m) 8.5 on IMDb — 93% on RT.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis. Action, Adventure, Comedy (2h 19m)
- Poor Things (2023) Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe. Comedy, Drama, Romance (2h 21m) 8.4 on IMDb — 93% on RT. Poor Things isn't a movie to watch if you're easily freaked out.
- Ghostbusters (1984) Directed by Ivan Reitman. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver. Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi (1h 45m) 7.8 on IMDb — 95% on RT.
50 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Barbarella. 1968 1h 38m PG. 5.9 (38K) Rate. 51 Metascore. In the 41st century, astronaut Barbarella partakes in sexy misadventures while seeking to stop an evil scientist named The Great Tyrant and her Concierge, who are threatening to bring evil back into the galaxy.
- Galaxy Quest. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman. 256 votes. In Galaxy Quest, a group of washed-up TV actors, led by Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen), find themselves in an interstellar dilemma.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Franchise. Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper. 204 votes. Guardians of the Galaxy is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name.
- Back to the Future Franchise. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson. 220 votes. The Back to the Future franchise is an American science fictioncomedy film series written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Universal Pictures.
- Men in Black. Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino. 184 votes. In the sci-fi comedy flick, Men in Black, we meet Jay (Will Smith), a New York City cop, and Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), a seasoned agent from a covert organization.
Apr 10, 2021 · Inspired by sci-fi classics like Star Trek, this comedy-drama has been created by funny guy Seth MacFarlane.The Family Guy creator also stars as the lead in this show that follows the crew of the titular starship on its adventures.
- Laughs... in space!
- 20. Dark Star
- 19. Paul
- 18. Weird Science
- 17. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- 16. Mars Attacks!
- 15. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- 14. Safety Not Guaranteed
- 13. Idiocracy
- 12. Repo Man
By Cliff Wheatley
Updated: Aug 16, 2021 11:58 pm
Posted: Aug 8, 2014 9:00 pm
We can all agree that Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the best space adventure flicks to come along in quite a while, right? Not only that, we'd argue it's one of the best comedies to hit screens in the last few years.
Oddly enough, two names that would become synonymous with horror – John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon, screenwriter of Alien – started off their careers with a science-fiction comedy called Dark Star that has traces of the filmmakers they would later become.
Dark Star is a black comedy about the doomed space craft of the same name. Its crew encompasses a bunch of uninterested slacker-types, stuck on board a ship with a Commander stuck in cryogenic sleep and more than a little bit of insanity sinking in. While Dark Star is played for comedy, the influence it has on Alien is quite clear – there’s even an alien that gets itself loose aboard the Dark Star that causes trouble for the crew. It’s more or less a beach ball, but still.
Having already taken on zombies and Point Break, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost united once again for an E.T.- style adventure… if E.T. was less teddy bear and more Keith Richards. With Seth Rogan as the voice of Paul – the titular extra-terrestrial – this Greg Mottola-directed comedy delivered the laughs and plenty of references to our favorite science-fiction classics.
It’s not Pegg and Frost’s greatest effort in the genre (although we’ll get to it later on in this list), but Paul is notable for its steady stream of laughs with its road trip-style comedy and the undeniable chemistry between the two human leads.
Perhaps the ultimate (only?) teen sci-fi sex comedy, John Hughes’ classic Weird Science is a nerd’s dream come true: two dorks successfully create the “perfect woman” via a computer program and change their status quo from wallflowers to studs.
The movie is laced with whip-smart jokes, great physical comedy, brilliant performances, and memorable small roles by the likes of Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Paxton. The only one of John Hughes’ classic films set in the fictional Shermer, Illinois to have a science-fiction bent to it, Weird Science revels in its wackiness (“what would you little maniacs like to do first?”). Add in the Hughes’ trademark of a memorable song – Oingo Boingo’s “Weird Science” – and the movie is easily one of the greatest sci-fi comedies of all-time.
Led by a hilarious Rick Moranis performance and the keen visuals of debut director Joe Johnston, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is an enormously fun family adventure that stands the test of time. Moranis is Wayne Szalinski, an inventor that accidentally shrinks his kids (along with the neighbor’s kids) and tosses them out with the trash – into a backyard rife with obstacles like lawn mowers, ants, and spots of water that may as well be oceans.
For a while it was Disney’s biggest live-action film ever, later spawning two sequels, a TV show, and a 3D attraction at Epcot in Walt Disney World. Though the rest of the franchise never quite reached the heights of the original, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a delightful science-fiction comedy that holds up even 25 years later.
In the pantheon of memorable Tim Burton films, for one reason or another, the star-studded Mars Attacks! is often shamefully overlooked. This off-beat sci-fi comedy assembles a wide variety of A-list actors – Jack Nicholson, Michael J. Fox, Glenn Close, Martin Short, Annette Bening, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Rod Steiger, just to name a few –and puts them up against an army of evil Martians. And, even better, the Martians kill off most of them, each with hilarious and unforgettable deaths.
Based on an obscure trading card series from Topps in the 1960s, Burton and screenwriter Jonathan Gems turned Mars Attacks! into a satirical B-movie black comedy, keeping the property alive even today – IDW has been publishing Mars Attacks! comics for the last few years.
Before he was Bilbo Baggins and Dr. Watson, Martin Freeman starred as Arthur Dent, the hapless protagonist of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, based on the book of the same name by author Douglas Adams. A regular guy tossed into an intergalactic quest after learning that Earth is due to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace freeway, Arthur is...
Inspired by a joke classified ad that went viral in the age of the Internet, Colin Trevorrow’s delightfully weird Safety Not Guaranteed stars Mark Duplass as Kenneth, a paranoid loner that fancies himself a time traveler. When Aubrey Plaza’s Darius meets him while assisting a writer at the magazine she works at who’s writing a story on him, a quirky love bond is formed and a strange sense of wonder overtakes the film: can Kenneth actually time travel?
Safety Not Guaranteed keeps the relationship of Kenneth and Darius front and center, but the notion of science-fiction is never far behind. It’s a sweet, sad, and ultimately stunning take on the classic meet-cute, with a pinch of sci-fi thrown in for good measure.
Science-fiction is a very popular delivery system for satire, and that’s just what Mike Judge perfected in this 2006 offering. Idiocracy stars Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph as citizens selected for a suspended animation experiment. When they awaken, they find themselves 500 years in the future; a future where everyone Is stupid, corporations have taken over, and society has completely relieved itself of anything that resembles responsibility. Despite the apparently serious themes at hand, Judge delivers laugh after laugh as he reflects our own shortcomings as a culture back at us.
Unfortunately, just like Judge’s other cult classic Office Space, Idiocracy was a non-contender at the box-office (and virtually no marketing campaign), but would go on to have a strong fan base on DVD.
A bizarre movie even for the kind of flicks found on this list, Repo Man is nonetheless one of the greatest sci-fi comedies ever constructed. Again a satire of modern culture – in this case the L.A. lifestyle of the 1980s – Repo Man is daring and darkly funny. Starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, Repo Man follows a young despondent punk named Otto that takes a job as a, you guessed it, repo man.
But when a car he repossesses holds extra-terrestrials in its trunk, things start to heat up and Otto’s tossed into a world of utter insanity. With government agents, drug trips, UFOs, and more, Repo Man stands as one of the most unique comedies/sci-fi flicks ever made.
- Cliff Wheatley
Mar 6, 2024 · Release Date. July 8, 2008. Director. Brian Robbins. Cast. Eddie Murphy , Elizabeth Banks , Gabrielle Union , Scott Caan , Ed Helms , Kevin Hart. Runtime. 90. Meet Dave is a frankly strange comedy ...
Aug 22, 2022 · 9 Twins (1988) Universal Pictures. In Twins, directed by the fantastic Ivan Reitman (no stranger to the sci-fi/comedy scene), a set of twins are split at birth: one, a fantastic mind and the ...
