Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Family > Comedy: 289 Films to Rent on DVD
- Santa Clause 2, The (2002)
- Dir. Michael Lembeck
Feat. Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Spencer Breslin…
- Creditable sequel has Allen well–esconced as the red–suited one after saving Christmas 8 years previously.
Here he invents a…
- Scooby-Doo (2002)
- Dir. Raja Gosnell
Feat. Sarah Michelle Geller, Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jnr.…
- The bumbling antics of pooch–detective ‘Scoob’ will continue to endear him to most youngsters in this big–screen version of the 1960s…
- Simpsons, The - Season 14 (TV Series) (2002-2003)
- Further episodes from the iconic animated TV Series. Some of the gags hold up, although the sparks of the shows subversive conception are now long…
- Thunderpants (2002)
- Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Paul Giamatti…
- Sweet but slight comedy concerning a 10–year old prodigy who turns his scientific talents towards helping a misfit friend who suffers from high…
- Being Eve (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Fleur Saville
- Spunky, good–natured Kiwi comedy essays the angsty teenage years of girl philosopher Eve Baxter, whose unconventional outlook on life is…
- Jack and the Beanstalk - The Real Story (2001)
- Dir. Brian Henson
Feat. Matthew Modine, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave…
- TV sequel to the fairytale of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in which a descendant of Jack (Modine) must lift a family curse by returning the world of the…
- Osmosis Jones (2001)
- Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Bill Murray, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne…
- The Farrelly Bros (KINGPIN) take their comic fixation with bodily functions to extremes by setting this icky animation within the bowels of Bill…
- Simpsons, The - Season 13 (TV Series) (2001-2002)
- By the 21st century; the Simpsons had obtained such status that they could no longer pretend to be a band of outsiders. A–list celebrities and…
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - The Adventure Begins (2000)
- Dir. Tad Stones
- The TOY STORY character spins–off into his own franchise (still with Tim Allen’s voice) for an animated space–adventure battling…
- Grinch, The (2000)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor
- Live–action version of the Dr Seuss classic that does some justice to the anarchic vision of the mean–spirited Grinch, who’s heart is…