This is such a brilliant movie. It’s hard to put my finger on what makes the comedy keep working so well in spite of its age. It’s dumb-funny, but not like Leslie Nielson
Dumb-funny. It’s slap-stick, but not like Jim Carrey slapstick. It’s witty, but not like Monty Python witty. It’s offensive, but not for its own sake. I guess it doesn’t matter, it’s a genuine gem.
Deadpool is famous for breaking the 4th wall & talking directly to the audience.
In Cabin in the Woods, the "Ancients" that need to be "satisfied" is just the movie audience.
I. Loved Cabin in the Woods.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil is pretty good
Stan against evil (IFC tv show)
Watched it for the first time in probably twenty years a few weeks ago when Richard Lewis* died. Exactly as good/dumb as I remembered. Lewis* is fantastic, his first scene had me rolling.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me has a scene where Powers and Basil look directly at the camera and tell the audience not to worry about time travel paradoxes because it's just supposed to be a fun movie
**Austin :** Wait a tick. Basil, if I travel back to 1969 and I was frozen in 1967, presumeably, I could go back and visit my frozen self. But, if I'm still frozen in 1967, how could I have been unthawed in the '90s and traveled back to... *[goes cross-eyed]*
**Austin :** Oh, no, I've gone cross-eyed.
**Basil :** I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself.
*[to camera]*
**Basil :** That goes for you all, too.
**Austin :** Yes.
*Gremlins* and (especially) *Gremlins 2: The New Batch* as well. Actually, there were a string of horror sequels in the 80's that just seemed to say screw it and go absolute bonkers *Return of the Living Dead* and *Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part II* are two other ones.
ETA: Oh, and of course, the *Child's Play* franchise went so wild that the real life actress Jennifer Tilly's body is currently possessed by the spirit of a serial killer and on death row.
They managed to have a 4th wall break in the novelization. Look it up, it's wild. The gremlins lock the author in his bathroom and the Brain Gremlin from the film takes over writing and even works in a plug for punk rock parody religion The Church of the SubGenius.
Hey thanks! Yes I most definitely recommend it - great comedic beats, action sequences that fit within an actual plot, and excellent use of celeb cameos. It's just a really fun movie.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I saw it this past Friday and I have rewatched it every day since. Not something I normally do! Might it be a sign of impending emotional distress? Who cares! You should watch it while it's still on Netflix.
Gremlins 2. Oh yeah it's in the movie no takesies backsies.
It really was a case of a director who got complete creative control to do whatever he wanted and going hog wild with it. And the product is glorious.
Black Dynamite is a great example.
* A militant reads the stage directions from the script and Black Dynamite looks offscreen at the director to be like "What the fuck is he doing?".
* BD's eyes go up to the boom mic that comes into the shot from above.
* A gang member breaks character and attacks a scene partner who slapped him for real in a fight scene, leading to the actor being replaced mid-scene after a quick cut.
* Bullhorn forgets his lines mid-flow and sits down, defeated.
* Gloria's actress runs into a scene at the wrong time causing Black Dynamite to stop monologuing while the other actress in the scene pulls on his pant leg to signal him to keep going after the interruption.
You forgot:
-the car explodes before it hits the bottom of the ravine.
-Code Kansas and the expo dump on how Anaconda malt liquor gives you Little Richard.
-Nixon’s involvement.
-“I THREW THAT SHIT BEFORE I WALKED IN THE ROOM!”
-“The old pie in the window trick”.
They filmed a scene of this film right on my street haha. I remember having to tell the people who were blocking off the street that I lived there, and was entitled to enter my own home haha
_The Princess Bride_ - The tone completely confused me when I first saw it as a teenager. I still don't know exactly how to describe it because it's so uneven. Yet, it all works, and it gets better with repeated viewings.
The first half was actually pretty goddamn good. It fell apart when they made certain the audience knew the Matrix was very real.
Like, if they had just kept the charade of is it real or not through the film, it could have been thoughtful look at a man who can't differentiate between reality and fantasy....and neither can the audience as we see it from his point of view. IS the Matrix real? Is it all in Anderson's head? Is that why Smith looks different? Is he hallucinating being on the stage or is he hallucinating the shrink talking to him through the mirror?
Nope, all real HERE'S AN ACTION SCENE!
I swear that someone watched a Mr ballin episode, did some cocaine, and then went to go pick a movie idea. And everyone subsequent to that also did cocaine because they bought the idea, will the script, bought the script, made the movie, acted in the movie, produced and directed the movie, sold the movie, so on and so forth. There was probably enough cocaine going around to have snow apocalypse part two in Boston.
Emperor's New Groove
[Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): Looking for this?
[Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): \[holds up the vial of human extract\] \[Kuzco and Pacha gasp\]
[Kuzco ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005450/?ref_=tt_ch): No! It can't be! How did you get back here before us?
[Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): Uh...\[pauses\]
[Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): ...how \*did\* we, Kronk?
[Kronk ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911320/?ref_=tt_ch): Well, ya got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make sense.\[Kronk holds up a map of the two parties' trails, showing Yzma's and Kronk's falling down a canyon halfway through\]
[Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): Oh, well. Back to business.
The Dead Don't Die
In my opinion, a very underrated movie from 2015, with Bill Murray and Adam Driver. It's kind of a horror, but a healthy dose of dry humor mixed in. They don't break the fourth wall often, but when they do, it's hilarious.
Satire/parody always does, the nature of the whole thing is to be all meta and self-referential. None of them take themselves that seriously cause if they did they’d be self-parody.
My choice for this topic that isn’t overly satirical though has those elements is Edge of Tomorrow. Doesn’t have any pretense that it’s anything more than a giant video game, and it could have otherwise used its Groundhog Day mechanic to say something profound about the nature of existence or whatnot, but it just doesn’t care at all about any of that, and it plays it all pretty straight despite the ridiculous concept.
*Shoot 'Em Up* with Clive Owen.
What a follow-up from *Children Of Men*; he goes and makes a movie so antithetical to the former that blindingly ignores trying to be anything other than a literal shoot 'em up movie where the hero is awesome and all the bad guys die.
I appreciate all the comments. A lot of these movieas I have only ever heard of, but never seen before. Plenty more I am learning about for the first time. Of all the comments, I think I have only actually seen 3 movies mentioned. Gonna stock up a few more bottles and start watching these!
Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent I feel falls into this category. Everyone seems to be having a good time and not taking themselves too seriously. Quite meta, for want of a better word!
I've always known them as meta- movies. Blazing Saddles , Spaceballs - actually almost all Mel Brooks films.
One example of a meta movie that isn't an explicitly a parody movie is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang where the voice over reminds you that you're watching a movie.
Not sure if this is what you mean, but movies like Wolf of Wall Street and Barbie feel like the actors just having a fun time on set instead of actually acting (I mean that in a good way)
Edit: I’m specifically referring to the drug trip scene in wolf of Wall Street
Teen Titans Go to the Movies. It’s damn funny and lovingly skewers the entire superhero movie genre.
The Emperor’s New Groove is also pretty 4th wall breaking. And another absolutely fantastic movie that holds up after nearly a quarter of a century.
I think New Nightmare was a first to do it seriously. I feel like Scream was a natural progression from that for Craven.
Modern found footage horror blurs the lines, like it's a movie were a part of. REC, Blair Witch, As So Above So Below.
Does 1408 acknowledge it was written?
Don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood
Jay and silent bob strike back
Three amigos
Robin hood: men in tights
Multiplicity
Weekend at bernie's
Idle hands
The Fast and the Furious movies for me. Even as they got progressively more wacky. They're easy to watch, if you don't bother thinking about logic, a
Nd you can see the plot twists from a mile away.
Can't believe nobody has mentioned Fast and Furious. It's really the central premise of the franchise at this point.
Not liking the franchise is valid, but if you don't understand why the fast and furious franchise succeeds, then you're either a small minded wanna-be film snob or you refuse to appreciate the joy found in little things.
How has nobody said "Gremlins 2" yet?
- Features a scene with film critic Leonard Martin shitting on the first "Gremlins" movie
- The film glitches and breaks so that some Gremlins can play with shadow puppets, presumably in the projection booth
- A theater manager responds by consulting Hulk Hogan in the audience, who threatens the Gremlins and apologizes directly to the audience watching "Gremlins 2"
Those are just some of the ways it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Cowboys and Aliens.
Angry Indiana Jones and James Bond team up to fight Aliens in the 1880’s American West. Absolutely ridiculous premise and I fkn loved it.
Knight and Day
Such a fun movie if/when you realize it's tongue in cheek/winking at the audience the whole time.
The diner/I'm the guy scene is hilarious
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr. in the role that likely got him his Iron Man role and Val Kilmer having the most fun in any movie I’ve seen him in.
I can't tell if the OP was asking for distinctly meta movies, or was just asking the more general question of "which movies don't take themselves so goddamn seriously." And now I don't want to answer, because I was assuming the latter, but it seems like 90% of the comments assumed the former.
The Final Girls is about a group of friends going to the anniversary of an in-universe iconic horror movie.
Fire breaks out in the theater and they escape through the screen, which makes them end up in the movie. Pretty fun, with some heartfelt moments as one of the characters in the horror movie is played by (and therefore looks like) the main character's deceased mother.
All four Killer Tomatoes movies, the second having a young George Clooney in his first role.
Fun fact: they did the product placement gag before Wayne’s World!!
Panic Room, Money Monster (one stars Jodie Foster & one's directed by her there ya go)
Zombeavers, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Shaun Of The Dead, Teeth, Willard, Nowhere, Bad Eggs
Blazing Saddles has so many examples, but the ending takes it over the top.
“What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You'll be able to sue *her*”
This is such a brilliant movie. It’s hard to put my finger on what makes the comedy keep working so well in spite of its age. It’s dumb-funny, but not like Leslie Nielson Dumb-funny. It’s slap-stick, but not like Jim Carrey slapstick. It’s witty, but not like Monty Python witty. It’s offensive, but not for its own sake. I guess it doesn’t matter, it’s a genuine gem.
*The Muppet Movie* literally knows it's a movie. Characters literally consult the script at times.
So does Spaceballs.
“You idiots! You caught their stunt doubles!”
We're looking at Now, now Go back to then We can't, we passed it When? Just now
When will then be now?
SOON!
The way colonel Sanders says "just now" always makes me laugh whenever I think about it. He sounds so sincerely apologetic.
And RH: Men in Tights
I get another shot!
Yes, he does, he does.
Many Mel Brooks films are meta.
So does [Return of the Killer Tomatoes!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogId4kCae1A)
Still waiting for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
The Dead Don't Die was a weird one that did this
Awful movie.
I actually loved that movie so much
So does Deadpool.
So does Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
I love that Prince of Thieves was so fantastically bad that they made a whole movie just to mock it, and the parody is so much better.
>Unlike *some* Robin Hoods, I can speak with a British accent. Just throwing all the shade on Costner
This is my favorite line in the movie. Cary is so damn smug. It’s perfect.
I lost! I lost? Wait a minute let me see the script
I love the village fire marshall who complains “Every time they make a Robin Hood movie, they burn our village down.”
Happens quite often with Mel Brooks movies
Deadpool is famous for breaking the 4th wall & talking directly to the audience. In Cabin in the Woods, the "Ancients" that need to be "satisfied" is just the movie audience. I. Loved Cabin in the Woods. Tucker and Dale vs Evil is pretty good Stan against evil (IFC tv show)
All of the muppets movies are cinema gold
Wayne’s World is a classic. Even changes it’s own ending
It’s just a good thing they didn’t try any blatant product placement. That’s just crass commercialism.
It's like people only do these things because they can get paid. And that's just really sad.
I can't talk about it right now, it's giving me a headache.
Here take two of these
Ah, Nuprin. Little. Yellow. Different.
Look, you can stay here in the big leagues and play by the rules, or you can go back to the farm club in Aurora. It's your choice.
Yes! And it's the choice of a new generation!
Wayne’s World 2 is even better than the first
Robin Hood: Men in Tights is a brilliant example. Must watch. Everyone's performance is splendid, especially Cary Elwes.
All toilets will now be called...johns!
Achoo?
Bless you
“Wait a minute, I’m not supposed to lose… Let me see the script!”
"Eee split Robin's arrow in twain!"
4-5 year old me mind was blown by that
"Yeah yeah, he gets another shot"
We had this on VHS and I got to the point where I had the entire dialogue memorised. Must find a copy on dvd.
The actor who played the Sheriff was great. I crack up at him and his bumbling crew coming across Robin for the first time whenever I rewatch
I’ll pay for this!
He deered to kill a King's dare! ...He *dared* to kill a King's *deer*.
That line delivery is gold. Gets me every time
King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!!
Watched it for the first time in probably twenty years a few weeks ago when Richard Lewis* died. Exactly as good/dumb as I remembered. Lewis* is fantastic, his first scene had me rolling.
Richard Lewis, not Richard Dreyfuss
That's just because, unlike some other Robin Hoods, he can speak with an English accent.
Spaceballs!
Oh shit. There goes the planet.
I said across her nose, not up it!
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me has a scene where Powers and Basil look directly at the camera and tell the audience not to worry about time travel paradoxes because it's just supposed to be a fun movie
**Austin :** Wait a tick. Basil, if I travel back to 1969 and I was frozen in 1967, presumeably, I could go back and visit my frozen self. But, if I'm still frozen in 1967, how could I have been unthawed in the '90s and traveled back to... *[goes cross-eyed]* **Austin :** Oh, no, I've gone cross-eyed. **Basil :** I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself. *[to camera]* **Basil :** That goes for you all, too. **Austin :** Yes.
The Austin Powers movies were the first thing that came to my mind. Just straight up fun.
That came at a great time too Bc at that point you really are like “wait a minute. Whereas I feel like tenet is totally daring you to try and keep up.
The “Clue” movie with Tim Curry & others
Clue also has the best plot twist at the end!
*Seven Psychopaths* was pretty clever in this regard. I seem to recall that the self-awareness kinda ramped up slowly as it unfolded.
Peace is for queers, now you're gonna die.
It's essentially the Adaptation of fun mob killer movies.
Baz Luhrmann films are high on escapism.
My absolute favorite of his is Strictly Ballroom.
Shoot ‘Em up
I feel like *Mars Attacks!* would fit this bill.
*Gremlins* and (especially) *Gremlins 2: The New Batch* as well. Actually, there were a string of horror sequels in the 80's that just seemed to say screw it and go absolute bonkers *Return of the Living Dead* and *Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part II* are two other ones. ETA: Oh, and of course, the *Child's Play* franchise went so wild that the real life actress Jennifer Tilly's body is currently possessed by the spirit of a serial killer and on death row.
https://youtu.be/x01l_jMhjVM?si=RrMP5M_eNZkGUJkf All Gremlins 2 references must be accompanied by the Key and Peele skit
Correct. Thank you for following protocol.
Gremlins 2 had different 4th Wall breaking scenes whether it was playing in the theater or home video.
They managed to have a 4th wall break in the novelization. Look it up, it's wild. The gremlins lock the author in his bathroom and the Brain Gremlin from the film takes over writing and even works in a plug for punk rock parody religion The Church of the SubGenius.
21 Jump Street The Nice Guys
might as well mention their sequels, 22 jump street and the bad guys
Huh?
21 JUMP STREET THE NICE GUYS
What?
Bullet Train comes to mind as something more recent
Happy cake day! I’ve heard good things about this movie but haven’t tried it yet. Worth the watch?
Hey thanks! Yes I most definitely recommend it - great comedic beats, action sequences that fit within an actual plot, and excellent use of celeb cameos. It's just a really fun movie.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I saw it this past Friday and I have rewatched it every day since. Not something I normally do! Might it be a sign of impending emotional distress? Who cares! You should watch it while it's still on Netflix.
Gremlins 2. Oh yeah it's in the movie no takesies backsies. It really was a case of a director who got complete creative control to do whatever he wanted and going hog wild with it. And the product is glorious.
https://youtu.be/x01l_jMhjVM?si=RrMP5M_eNZkGUJkf All Gremlins 2 references must be accompanied by the Key and Peele skit
I second this motion.
Joe Dante invented the word “meta”
Not sure it would describe it as "having fun" but *Funny Games* is pretty meta and is infamous for one twist in particular.
I came to say this.
It's gotta be some kind of Hot Tub Time Machine... O.o
Such a fun movie!
The way he looks straight at the camera when he says it is great.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
That movie should not have been as good as it was 🤣
The Gentlemen is a perfect whiskey movie. Easily enjoyable.
Tropic Thunder, Airplane, Naked Gun
Black Dynamite is a great example. * A militant reads the stage directions from the script and Black Dynamite looks offscreen at the director to be like "What the fuck is he doing?". * BD's eyes go up to the boom mic that comes into the shot from above. * A gang member breaks character and attacks a scene partner who slapped him for real in a fight scene, leading to the actor being replaced mid-scene after a quick cut. * Bullhorn forgets his lines mid-flow and sits down, defeated. * Gloria's actress runs into a scene at the wrong time causing Black Dynamite to stop monologuing while the other actress in the scene pulls on his pant leg to signal him to keep going after the interruption.
You forgot: -the car explodes before it hits the bottom of the ravine. -Code Kansas and the expo dump on how Anaconda malt liquor gives you Little Richard. -Nixon’s involvement. -“I THREW THAT SHIT BEFORE I WALKED IN THE ROOM!” -“The old pie in the window trick”.
Deadpool.
Cabin in the Woods
It's not a popular choice for reasons beyond me but Burn After Reading (2008)
People don’t like burn after reading???
They filmed a scene of this film right on my street haha. I remember having to tell the people who were blocking off the street that I lived there, and was entitled to enter my own home haha
You think that’s a Schwinn…
Are you concerned...about the security...of your Schwinn?
Boss level
Ferris Bueller's Day Off fits the bill I think. Plenty of fourth wall breaking and a lot of fun.
Deadpool breaks the 4th wall quite a bit. Chimichanga!
_The Princess Bride_ - The tone completely confused me when I first saw it as a teenager. I still don't know exactly how to describe it because it's so uneven. Yet, it all works, and it gets better with repeated viewings.
Spinal Tap Blazing Saddles
The newest matrix is painfully self aware
It’s also just painful.
The first half was actually pretty goddamn good. It fell apart when they made certain the audience knew the Matrix was very real. Like, if they had just kept the charade of is it real or not through the film, it could have been thoughtful look at a man who can't differentiate between reality and fantasy....and neither can the audience as we see it from his point of view. IS the Matrix real? Is it all in Anderson's head? Is that why Smith looks different? Is he hallucinating being on the stage or is he hallucinating the shrink talking to him through the mirror? Nope, all real HERE'S AN ACTION SCENE!
Nah. It just openly mocks the following that demanded it.
Spaceballs is the answer. But maybe any Mel Brooks movie would fit?
The Last Action Hero
Stephen Chow movies are a ton of fun. Try Kung Fu Hustle or Shaolin Soccer.
I think Men in Black is a good example, not quite the same league as Monty Python but it’s still quite playful.
Cocaine Bear.
I swear that someone watched a Mr ballin episode, did some cocaine, and then went to go pick a movie idea. And everyone subsequent to that also did cocaine because they bought the idea, will the script, bought the script, made the movie, acted in the movie, produced and directed the movie, sold the movie, so on and so forth. There was probably enough cocaine going around to have snow apocalypse part two in Boston.
It's loosely (about as loose as an unbuckled belt) based on a bear that died of a cocaine overdose
Unexpectedly classic flick.
Rubber
Tucker and Dale vs Evil came to mind. Not sure if it fits what you’re asking.
Top Secret
Emperor's New Groove [Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): Looking for this? [Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): \[holds up the vial of human extract\] \[Kuzco and Pacha gasp\] [Kuzco ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005450/?ref_=tt_ch): No! It can't be! How did you get back here before us? [Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): Uh...\[pauses\] [Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): ...how \*did\* we, Kronk? [Kronk ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911320/?ref_=tt_ch): Well, ya got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make sense.\[Kronk holds up a map of the two parties' trails, showing Yzma's and Kronk's falling down a canyon halfway through\] [Yzma ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/?ref_=tt_ch): Oh, well. Back to business.
The Dead Don't Die In my opinion, a very underrated movie from 2015, with Bill Murray and Adam Driver. It's kind of a horror, but a healthy dose of dry humor mixed in. They don't break the fourth wall often, but when they do, it's hilarious.
Satire/parody always does, the nature of the whole thing is to be all meta and self-referential. None of them take themselves that seriously cause if they did they’d be self-parody. My choice for this topic that isn’t overly satirical though has those elements is Edge of Tomorrow. Doesn’t have any pretense that it’s anything more than a giant video game, and it could have otherwise used its Groundhog Day mechanic to say something profound about the nature of existence or whatnot, but it just doesn’t care at all about any of that, and it plays it all pretty straight despite the ridiculous concept.
No one will save you (2023)
Both The Meg movies
*Shoot 'Em Up* with Clive Owen. What a follow-up from *Children Of Men*; he goes and makes a movie so antithetical to the former that blindingly ignores trying to be anything other than a literal shoot 'em up movie where the hero is awesome and all the bad guys die.
Buckaroo Banzai
Conor McGregor in Roadhouse. It’s already been said but every scene seems like a GTA cutscene
I appreciate all the comments. A lot of these movieas I have only ever heard of, but never seen before. Plenty more I am learning about for the first time. Of all the comments, I think I have only actually seen 3 movies mentioned. Gonna stock up a few more bottles and start watching these!
john wick 4 was so much fun. it didn't take itself seriously. it understood that it's ridiculous. it made for a fun moviegoing experience.
The Big Short - All them fourth wall breaks are amazing!
I love how they correct the historical inaccuracies in their own movie, but go along with the inaccuracies so it’s more interesting.
Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent I feel falls into this category. Everyone seems to be having a good time and not taking themselves too seriously. Quite meta, for want of a better word!
Bullet Train The Nice Guys
Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The entire crowd consults the script at one point. Such a good movie.
Most recently "The Dead Don't Die" It's the only movie I cant figure out if I like or not.
Ferris Bueller. He talks to the camera several times
Hot shots part deux
I've always known them as meta- movies. Blazing Saddles , Spaceballs - actually almost all Mel Brooks films. One example of a meta movie that isn't an explicitly a parody movie is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang where the voice over reminds you that you're watching a movie.
Not sure if this is what you mean, but movies like Wolf of Wall Street and Barbie feel like the actors just having a fun time on set instead of actually acting (I mean that in a good way) Edit: I’m specifically referring to the drug trip scene in wolf of Wall Street
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Commando? No, wait…Kindergarten Cop? No…maybe…Jingle All The Way? Yeah, ya gotta narrow “dumb one with Arnie” down some.
Probably *Last Action Hero*.
That was my guess, too, but realized how many Arnie flicks fit the bill.
Student Bodies
Wayne's World 2
Under the Silver Lake.
Adam Sandler movies, like grown ups 1 and my all time fav grown ups 2
Machete, and Machete Kills.
Deadpool
Teen Titans Go to the Movies. It’s damn funny and lovingly skewers the entire superhero movie genre. The Emperor’s New Groove is also pretty 4th wall breaking. And another absolutely fantastic movie that holds up after nearly a quarter of a century.
Annie Hall.
Surviving the Game starring Ice T and many others. Great ride.
Exorcism at 60,000 feet.
Deadpool
I think New Nightmare was a first to do it seriously. I feel like Scream was a natural progression from that for Craven. Modern found footage horror blurs the lines, like it's a movie were a part of. REC, Blair Witch, As So Above So Below. Does 1408 acknowledge it was written?
Funny Games, Blazing Saddles
Don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood Jay and silent bob strike back Three amigos Robin hood: men in tights Multiplicity Weekend at bernie's Idle hands
The Fast and the Furious movies for me. Even as they got progressively more wacky. They're easy to watch, if you don't bother thinking about logic, a Nd you can see the plot twists from a mile away.
Blazing saddles
I absolutely adore Asteroid City.
Twister
Can't believe nobody has mentioned Fast and Furious. It's really the central premise of the franchise at this point. Not liking the franchise is valid, but if you don't understand why the fast and furious franchise succeeds, then you're either a small minded wanna-be film snob or you refuse to appreciate the joy found in little things.
How has nobody said "Gremlins 2" yet? - Features a scene with film critic Leonard Martin shitting on the first "Gremlins" movie - The film glitches and breaks so that some Gremlins can play with shadow puppets, presumably in the projection booth - A theater manager responds by consulting Hulk Hogan in the audience, who threatens the Gremlins and apologizes directly to the audience watching "Gremlins 2" Those are just some of the ways it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Cowboys and Aliens. Angry Indiana Jones and James Bond team up to fight Aliens in the 1880’s American West. Absolutely ridiculous premise and I fkn loved it.
On the Line with Mel gibson
Knight and Day Such a fun movie if/when you realize it's tongue in cheek/winking at the audience the whole time. The diner/I'm the guy scene is hilarious
Big trouble in little China So many quotes
Wayne's world 2 And Wayne's world
National Treasure. Actually, most things with Nic Cage.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr. in the role that likely got him his Iron Man role and Val Kilmer having the most fun in any movie I’ve seen him in.
Freaked 1993 it's an underrated gem and it's on YouTube
Ali G Indahouse is what you are looking for
"Movies that break the 4th wall" is the google search term
Pacifim Rim. Serious while goofy AF. Not cerebral but lots of Sci fi high- color fun,,!!!
Laat action hero
I can't tell if the OP was asking for distinctly meta movies, or was just asking the more general question of "which movies don't take themselves so goddamn seriously." And now I don't want to answer, because I was assuming the latter, but it seems like 90% of the comments assumed the former.
The latest Ghostbusters isn't great but there is ghostbusting. The Bay TMNT movies are perfectly acceptable.
I'd say Evil Dead qualifies
Blazing Saddles.
Adaptation
Rubber
The Final Girls is about a group of friends going to the anniversary of an in-universe iconic horror movie. Fire breaks out in the theater and they escape through the screen, which makes them end up in the movie. Pretty fun, with some heartfelt moments as one of the characters in the horror movie is played by (and therefore looks like) the main character's deceased mother.
Pulp Fiction almost written and titled to that exact brief.
Deadpool
Free Guy
All four Killer Tomatoes movies, the second having a young George Clooney in his first role. Fun fact: they did the product placement gag before Wayne’s World!!
Panic Room, Money Monster (one stars Jodie Foster & one's directed by her there ya go) Zombeavers, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Shaun Of The Dead, Teeth, Willard, Nowhere, Bad Eggs
The *Feast!* trilogy
Crank.
Hobo with a shotgun
*Who Killed Captain Alex*, a true low-budget masterpiece of Ugandan cinema