The best John Landis’s comedy movies on YouTube

John Landis

John Landis

03/08/1950 (73 años)
We present our ranking of the best John Landis’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about John Landis.

The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers
7.9/10
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back togther to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

Animal House

Animal House
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/07/1978
  • Character: Cafeteria Dishwasher
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Trading Places

Trading Places
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/06/1983
  • Character: Man with Briefcase (uncredited)
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 21/08/1981
  • Character: Man Being Smashed into Window (uncredited)
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Kelly's Heroes

Kelly's Heroes
7.6/10
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

1941

1941
5.8/10
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

The Muppet Movie

The Muppet Movie
7.6/10
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

Into the Night

Into the Night
6.4/10
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

The Muppets Take Manhattan

The Muppets Take Manhattan
6.8/10
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.

The Kentucky Fried Movie

The Kentucky Fried Movie
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/08/1977
  • Character: TV Technician Thrown by Gorilla (segment "A.M. Today")
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

I Hate Kids

I Hate Kids
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/01/2019
  • Character: Psychic #4
Nick Pearson is a life-long bachelor who is finally settling down. On the brink of his wedding he is surprised to find he has a 13 year old son who has come to find his him through the help of a psychic. The problem is Nick can't stand kids and would happily send the boy back to live with his biological mother, except that no one has any clue who that might be. Having nowhere to turn Nick must hit the road with the boy and the neurotic, inept psychic to track down dozens of his disgraced ex-flings to whom he must ask the awkward question - with very mixed results.

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
5.4/10
After escaping from jail, two teens flee to Tijuana and stay with one's childhood protector, a man masquerading as a nun.

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
4.4/10
Aspiring college cheerleader, Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty and enough athletic ability to make the cheer squad. The drug has an unforeseen side effect — Cassie starts to grow and grow and grow!

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
7.2/10
A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subversive and electrifying beginnings, to rebirth as an unlikely Hollywood heavyweight, and beyond. A humour empire like no other, the impact of the magazines irreverent, often shocking, sensibility was nothing short of seismic: this is an institution whose (drunk stoned brilliant) alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture. Both insanely great and breathtakingly innovative, The National Lampoon created the foundation of modern comic sensibility by setting the bar in comedy impossibly high.

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
7.6/10
The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's contemporaries, (Steve Lawrence, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, etc.), established comedians (Billy Crystal, Rosanna Barr, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, etc.) and young comedians (Jeff Atoll, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, etc.).

Schlock

Schlock
5.5/10
A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.

Diamonds

Diamonds
5.4/10
Mystery about an ex-prizefighter who embarks on a journey to find 13 missing diamonds

The Legend of Dolemite! Bigger & Badder

The Legend of Dolemite! Bigger & Badder
6.1/10
Rudy Ray Moore tells all as only he can in this all-new retrospective legendary career. From his humble beginnings to his crowning as "King of the Party Records," Rudy Ray guides us through his struggles and triumphs in the film and music industries.

The Scenesters

The Scenesters
5.5/10
Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The detectives covering the murders are apathetic at best but with good names (Henry and Carlita, particularly Carlita). Good names, bad attitudes.

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