April has been shockingly quiet for Netflix among comedy movies. The only big addition of the month is One of Them Days, a comedy starring Keke Palmer and SZA that had moderate success at the box office earlier this year. Thematically, it fits pretty well with the Friday movies, which are also on Netflix. But the lack of fresh material beyond this movie is very noticeable.
Rather than send you back out into the wilds of Netflix with only a single new recommendation, we’re also including The Interview, a 2014 comedy starring former best friends James Franco and Seth Rogen. If you’re looking for laughs, the rest of the best comedies on Netflix are still impressively funny. But we’d really like to see more fresh comedies added to Netflix in May.
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It’s hard enough to make rent under normal circumstances. But there are anything but normal circumstances in One of Them Days for Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA), a pair of roommates and best friends. On the day their rent is due, the duo discover that Alyssa’s boyfriend, Keshawn (Joshua Neal), stole their money. That leads to a frantic struggle to raise the rent money before the landlord has them evicted, and they’ve only got a few hours. Alyssa and Dreux’s friendship is also coming apart as they struggle to meet the goal, especially after they make an enemy out of a gangster, King Lolo (Amin Joseph), who isn’t in a very forgiving mood.
Over a decade ago, The Interview actually led to some real tensions between America and North Korea and may have prompted the infamous Sony Pictures email hack. The stakes are also high in the movie, as CIA Agent Lacey (Lizzy Caplan) gives talk show host Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer, Aaron Rapaport (Seth Rogen), a clandestine mission to assassinate North Korea’s President Kim Jong Un (Randall Park).
Killing someone in the abstract may be easy, but Skylark struggles to actually go through with the assignment after forming a rapport with Kim. One of Kim’s security agents, Sook-yin Park (Diana Bang), is sympathetic to their mission. But even if Skylark and Rapaport succeed, their trip to North Korea may be a one-way journey.
Friday is a cult classic comedy that’s celebrating 30 years of getting high in 2025. That’s the problem for best buds, Chris Jones (Ice Cube) and Smokey (Chris Tucker). They smoked their way through Smokey’s weed supply, and he was supposed to sell it for a local drug boss, Big Worm (Faizon Love).
You’d better believe that Big Worm will have these guys killed if they can’t come up with the $200 they owe him for the lost week. If this was set in 2025, rest assured that amount would be much higher. But as the clock ticks closer to the deadline, it might as well be $20,000, because neither Chris nor Smokey knows anyone who is willing to part with that kind of cash. And to save their own lives, they may have to fight the neighborhood bully, Deebo (Tiny Lister Jr.), to get the money.
One day in the ’80s, when John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) was just a kid, he made a wish that his teddy bear would come to life, and he did. Then Ted (Seth MacFarlane) never left his side for the next two decades. Ted picks up with John just five years south of 40, and rapidly on the verge of losing his girlfriend, Lori Collins (Mila Kunis), because Ted is such a bad influence.
John needs to grow up fast, because Lori’s boss, Rex (Joel McHale), is making his play to steal Lori away from him. But the problem with Ted is that he can’t really grow up, and his arrested development is hurting his best friend’s chance to start a real life for himself.
NBA superstar Kyrie Irving gets the chance to shine as the title character in Uncle Drew, and he’s not the only pro basketball legend that has a big part in the film. Lil Rel Howery stars as Dax Winslow, the coach of a streetball team who has hit hard times. His rival, Mookie Bass (Nick Kroll), has stolen Dax’s best player, Casper Jones (Aaron Gordon), Dax’s girlfriend, Jess (Tiffany Haddish), and the rest of Dax’s team.
With nowhere else to turn, Dax seeks out Uncle Drew, an icon among streetball players. Drew’s willing to get back on the court, provided Dax also recruits his former teammates, Big Fella (Shaquille O’Neal), Preacher (Chris Webber), Wilbur “Lights” Wallace (Reggie Miller), and Boots (Nate Robinson). But there’s some lingering bad blood between Drew and Big Fella that may ruin their comeback before its begun.
The only thing you need to know about Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) is that she’s a nuclear-grade moron who isn’t smart enough to realize her shortcomings as a documentarian. Morgan has played this character for years, and her latest film, Cunk on Life, finds Philomena trying to answer the biggest questions in the universe about life, religion, the Big Bang, and more.
Since this is a mockumentary, Cunk pairs up with actual experts on the respective subjects, not all of whom are in on the joke. You can always count on Philomena to say the wrong thing or ask the dumbest questions. In some ways, it’s similar to Sacha Baron Cohen’s early work as Borat and Ali G.
Margot Robbie is a Barbie among Barbies in the film that shares her character’s name. There are countless Barbies in Barbieland and almost as many Kens. One Ken (Ryan Gosling) can’t get Barbie to commit to a relationship. That’s because of Barbie’s preoccupation with some strange things happening to her.
When Barbie crosses over to reality, Ken tags along for the ride and discovers a world where men are dominant. Meanwhile, Barbie meets her owner, Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt), and Sasha’s mother, Gloria (America Ferrera), both of whom have a lot to teach Barbie about being a woman.
We’re not saying that Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are getting too old for this [bleep], but surely everyone was surprised when Bad Boys: Ride or Die was one of the big hits of summer 2024. Movie lovers just seem to enjoy a well-made action comedy. In the fourth chapter of his franchise, Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) have their most personal mission to date.
Their late captain, Conrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano), has been posthumously framed for corruption. Rather than let that stand, Mike and Marcus attempt to clear his name shortly before they’re framed for serious crimes as well. Now, the duo are on the run from the rest of the Miami PD. They must rely on a handful of friends in the department who are willing to risk their own necks to help them.
It only took 30 years, but the fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie has arrived on Netflix. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F brings Eddie Murphy back to one of his most iconic roles for the first time since 1994, as his reputation for causing trouble comes back to haunt him. Axel’s daughter, Jane Saunders (Taylour Paige), is estranged from him, but as soon as he hears that she’s in trouble, he’s on the first plane to Beverly Hills.
The actual Beverly Hills cops are less than happy to see Axel back in town. The lone exception is Jane’s ex-boyfriend, Detective Bobby Abbott (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). It’s a good thing too, because Axel needs someone to watch his back as he manages to alienate the city’s other cops in record time.
Everyone has a calling in life. In Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) has found his as a fake assassin who is used by the police to nab people who want to hire him to commit murder. Gary uses this gig as an excuse to improv different hit man personas, and profile his would-be clients.
The one client who gives Gary pause is Maddy Masters (Adria Arjona), a woman who wants her husband dead so she can escape her domestic strife. Gary refuses to spring his trap on Maddy, much to the anger and confusion of his police contacts. Gary also has to stay in one of his fake personas as he starts courting Maddy, which is just an invitation for disaster.
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