List of Top 10 Comedy Movies of 2012

1. 21 Jump Street - Schmidt and Jenko sign up for the special Jump Street unit, taking advantage of how young they look to go undercover at a high school. Their task: to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. However, it doesn’t take them long to figure high school’s changed in the few years since they graduated. They have to face all the stress and anxiety of being teenagers once again as they re-enter the dreaded world of high school cliques.

2. Wanderlust - Wanderlust is a 2012 comedy film directed by David Wain. Wanderlust a comedy that looks way better than it actually is set amidst the dreck of late winter releases, features the classic setup of urbanites fleeing to a bucolic rural setting to shed the tensions of their former lives, but with a 21st century recession twist.

3. Joyful Noise - Joyful Noise pairs up Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton as Vi Rose Hill and G.G. Sparrow, two head-strong choir members in the small town of Pacashau, Georgia. With the town having fallen on hard times, people are counting on the choir of their local church to win the Joyful Noise Competition, a national competition for choirs. Vi and G.G. both have very different ideas on how this should be done, causing the two to clash in hilarious ways.

4. A Thousand Words - A satiated man who’ll say anything to get his way learns that he has only a thousand words left to speak before he will die. Hope he learns how to not speak! I wonder if Sign language counts. Maybe he can write his words instead of speaking them. We’ll see when this movie comes out in March.

5. American Reunion - American Reunion is a 2012 comedy film written and directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg. American Reunion in a nutshell. It’s nice catching up, finding out what happened in the lives of the characters, and realizing that, ultimately, nothing’s really changed except for the size of their guts. After that, it’s mostly tedious, watching characters ruminate about their own past and clumsily attempting to recapture it.

6. One For The Money - One for the Money is a 2012 comedy film based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Janet Evanovich. Directed by Julie Anne Robinson, the screenplay was written by Liz Brixius, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. It stars Katherine Heigl, Jason O’Mara, Debbie Reynolds, Daniel Sunjata and Sherri Shepherd. This movie could have been great Sunday matinee fun with Marisa Tomei and a decent screenplay. If romcoms must exist they should all have a gun wielding, foul-mouthed female protagonist with a sassy hooker for a sidekick.

7. Being Flynn - Based on a true story, Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) has his life disrupted following the reappearance of his eccentric father, Jonathan (Robert De Niro). Jonathan comes back into his life as Nick’s still adjusting to the death of his mother (Julianne Moore) and while he’s just in the early stages of a relationship with Denise (Olivia Thirlby). But although Jonathan’s reappearance is a shock, Nick soon realizes good can come of the opportunity to reconnect with his dad and that it can affect both of their lives positively.

8. The Dictator - The Dictator is an upcoming 2012 American comedy film written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen’s fourth film will “tell the story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed”, according to distributor Paramount Pictures.[3] Larry Charles, who previously directed Baron Cohen’s mockumentaries Borat and Brüno, will also direct the film. Baron Cohen will star alongside Ben Kingsley and Anna Faris. Baron Cohen will play the role of Admiral General Aladeen, a dictator from the fictional Middle Eastern country of the Republic of Wadiya.

9. The Five-Year Engagement - The Five-Year Engagement is an upcoming romantic comedy film written, directed and produced by Nicholas Stoller, starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as a couple whose relationship becomes strained when their engagement is continually extended. The film will be released in the United States and United Kingdom on April 27, 2012.

10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (film) is an upcoming comedy film directed by David Bowers from a screenplay by Wallace Wolodarsky and Maya Forbes. It stars Zachary Gordon and Steve Zahn. It is the third film in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series and is based on the third and fourth books in the series, The Last Straw and Dog Days. The film is set to be released on August 3, 2012.