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Best Comedy Movies of the 2000s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
285 comedy films from the 2000s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Up (2009), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.6. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Bucket List, 7.3 on IMDb against 42 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up '2009 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | 98% | 88 | 8.0 | Pete Docter |
| 2 | Snatch '2000 | Crime / Comedy | 8.2 | 74% | 55 | 7.8 | Guy Ritchie |
| 3 | 3 Idiots '2009 | Drama / Comedy | 8.4 | 94% | 67 | 8.0 | Rajkumar Hirani |
| 4 | Amélie '2001 | Comedy / Romance | 8.2 | 90% | 70 | 7.9 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 5 | Monsters, Inc. '2001 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 8.1 | 96% | 79 | 7.9 | Pete Docter |
| 6 | Ratatouille '2007 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 8.1 | 96% | 96 | 7.8 | Brad Bird |
| 7 | Shrek '2001 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.9 | 89% | 84 | 7.8 | Andrew Adamson |
| 8 | Shaun of the Dead '2004 | Horror / Comedy | 7.8 | 92% | 76 | 7.5 | Edgar Wright |
| 9 | In Bruges '2008 | Comedy / Drama / Crime | 7.9 | 84% | 67 | 7.5 | Martin McDonagh |
| 10 | Hot Fuzz '2007 | Crime / Action / Comedy | 7.8 | 91% | 81 | 7.6 | Edgar Wright |
| 11 | The Hangover '2009 | Comedy | 7.7 | 79% | 73 | 7.3 | Todd Phillips |
| 12 | Little Miss Sunshine '2006 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 91% | 80 | 7.7 | Jonathan Dayton |
| 13 | Lost in Translation '2003 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.7 | 95% | 91 | 7.4 | Sofia Coppola |
| 14 | Fantastic Mr. Fox '2009 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | 93% | 83 | 7.8 | Wes Anderson |
| 15 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? '2000 | Comedy / Crime | 7.7 | 78% | 69 | 7.3 | Joel Coen |
| 16 | Superbad '2007 | Comedy | 7.6 | 88% | 76 | 7.3 | Greg Mottola |
| 17 | Mary and Max '2009 | Animation / Comedy / Drama | 8.1 | 96% | 72 | 7.9 | Adam Elliot |
| 18 | (500) Days of Summer '2009 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 86% | 76 | 7.3 | Marc Webb |
| 19 | Kung Fu Panda '2008 | Action / Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | 87% | 74 | 7.3 | Mark Osborne |
| 20 | Ice Age '2002 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | 76% | 61 | 7.4 | Chris Wedge |
| 21 | Love Actually '2003 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.5 | 65% | 55 | 7.1 | Richard Curtis |
| 22 | Zombieland '2009 | Comedy / Horror | 7.5 | 89% | 73 | 7.3 | Ruben Fleischer |
| 23 | The Royal Tenenbaums '2001 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 81% | 76 | 7.5 | Wes Anderson |
| 24 | Adaptation. '2002 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.6 | 90% | 83 | 7.3 | Spike Jonze |
| 25 | Billy Elliot '2000 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.7 | 85% | 74 | 7.6 | Stephen Daldry |
| 26 | Juno '2007 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 93% | 81 | 7.1 | Jason Reitman |
| 27 | Shrek 2 '2004 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 7.4 | 89% | 75 | 7.3 | Conrad Vernon |
| 28 | The Terminal '2004 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 61% | 55 | 7.4 | Steven Spielberg |
| 29 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan '2006 | Comedy | 7.4 | 90% | 89 | 6.8 | Larry Charles |
| 30 | Kung Fu Hustle '2004 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Fantasy | 7.7 | 90% | 78 | 7.5 | Stephen Chow |
| 31 | The Emperor's New Groove '2000 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.4 | 86% | 70 | 7.6 | Mark Dindal |
| 32 | Good Bye, Lenin! '2003 | Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 91% | 68 | 7.5 | Wolfgang Becker |
| 33 | Lilo & Stitch '2002 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 86% | 75 | 7.6 | Dean DeBlois |
| 34 | Sideways '2004 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 97% | 94 | 7.1 | Alexander Payne |
| 35 | High Fidelity '2000 | Drama / Comedy / Romance / Musical | 7.4 | 91% | 79 | 7.1 | Stephen Frears |
| 36 | Stranger Than Fiction '2006 | Drama / Comedy / Romance / Fantasy | 7.5 | 73% | 67 | 7.3 | Marc Forster |
| 37 | Cars '2006 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | 75% | 73 | 7.1 | John Lasseter |
| 38 | Garden State '2004 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 86% | 67 | 7.1 | Zach Braff |
| 39 | The Simpsons Movie '2007 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | 87% | 80 | 7.0 | David Silverman |
| 40 | The Chorus '2004 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.9 | 68% | 56 | 7.7 | Christophe Barratier |
| 41 | Thank You for Smoking '2005 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 86% | 71 | 7.2 | Jason Reitman |
| 42 | Punch-Drunk Love '2002 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | 79% | 78 | 7.1 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 43 | The Bucket List '2007 | Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | 40% | 42 | 7.2 | Rob Reiner |
| 44 | Chocolat '2000 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 63% | 64 | 7.0 | Lasse Hallström |
| 45 | Chicago '2002 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 87% | 81 | 7.1 | Rob Marshall |
| 46 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang '2005 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.4 | 86% | 73 | 7.2 | Shane Black |
| 47 | Volver '2006 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 91% | 84 | 7.5 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 48 | Shaolin Soccer '2001 | Action / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.3 | 89% | 68 | 7.2 | Stephen Chow |
| 49 | The School of Rock '2003 | Comedy / Musical | 7.2 | 92% | 82 | 7.1 | Richard Linklater |
| 50 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou '2004 | Comedy / Drama | 7.2 | 73% | 62 | 7.1 | Wes Anderson |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
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