Recommended Action Comedy Movies
Midnight Run (1988)
One of the most beloved action comedies ever made, Midnight Run is essentially a road movie. Starring Charles Grodin as a man on the run, and Robert De Niro as the bounty hunter who ferries him across the country, the movie gets plenty of laughs out of the oddball pairing of the two actors, but it also manages to find ways to turn them into something like friends by the end of the movie.
Spy (2015)
Melissa McCarthy has made some excellent comedies in her day, but Spy might be the best. At its most basic level, the movie plays as a parody of your average James Bond movie. McCarthy plays an analyst with field training who has to enter the field herself after her field agent is killed. The plotting itself isn’t what makes this movie funny, though. Instead, it’s the combination of brilliant visual jokes and sharp writing.
The Nice Guys (2016)
Want to see Ryan Gosling at his silliest? The Nice Guys is the place to start. While it’s a little less action forward than the other movies on this list, it’s still thrilling enough to leave you whooping by its final moments, and it’s also one of the funniest movies of the last 20 years. Set in Los Angeles in the 1970s, the movie follows a private detective and an enforcer who become an unlikely team when a young woman goes missing. While the movie has many of the trappings of great noir films, The Nice Guys is funnier than almost any other movie like it, and it features Gosling at the top of his game.
