Comedy

• The Adventures Of Pluto Nash | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £5.50   |  Saving you £8.49 (154.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Adventures of Pluto Nash was shelved for nearly two years, and when it was finally released, hardly anyone noticed. In the interim, Eddie Murphy made the marginally better Showtime and started fishing for a career revival that wasn't a sequel to his previous hits. In the satirical, lunar-colony hash of Pluto Nash, Murphy's a variant of Casablanca's Rick Blaine in the year 2087, happily running the moon's hottest nightclub, refusing a buyout offer from a greedy gambler, and suffering the consequences with his sidekick robot (Randy Quaid in yet another thankless role) and newest employee (Rosario Dawson, before doing similar time in Men in Black II). A visual hybrid of Total Recall and A.I., this nearly laughless comedy would be a total write-off if it weren't for Murphy's stalwart attempt to jump-start the flagging humour. He's got the chops of a superstar, but only when his collaborators are on the same page. --Jeff Shannon

• Land of the Lost | Blu Ray | (23/11/2009) from £14.05   |  Saving you £13.93 (125.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Will Ferrell gets lost in a land of adventure as the bumbling palaeontologist in this update of the cult TV series

• Marley & Me Double Pack | DVD | (16/01/2012) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Marley & MeWhen a dog wriggles his adorable rear end into a human's life, the human will never be the same. And both Marley, the dog, and Marley & Me, the movie, manage to endear themselves deeply despite a few wee flaws. Readers of the John Grogan bestseller already know the raffish charm of the incorrigible yellow lab puppy, Marley, adopted by Grogan and his wife because she's "never seen anything more adorable in my life." But Grogan's simple tale of love, in all its forms, shines on the big screen, thanks to deft comic turns by Jennifer Aniston--in top form here--and Owen Wilson. Their chemistry is utterly natural and believable as Marley's owners, as is their interaction with the very naughty but ultimately irresistible Marley. As Marley grows up, the film follows his escapades--flunking out, spectacularly, from puppy training at the hands of a wickedly funny Kathleen Turner. And as Marley grows up, John and Jenny build their life together and weather some tough emotional blows. Like My Dog Skip, which it resembles in its affection for its subject, Marley & Me is a tear-jerker, but in the sweetest, most lovely way--because it, and its four-legged star, have wriggled into our hearts. Good boy. --A.T. Hurley, Amazon.com

• Stuck On You | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.81   |  Saving you £15.18 (315.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the latest comedy from the Farrelly brothers, two conjoined twins find their brotherly bond tested when one of them decides to head to Hollywood to become a movie star.

• The Fenn Street Gang - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (127.39%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Contains the complete second series of the classic television show The Fenn Street Gang

• My One and Only | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £2.75   |  Saving you £17.24 (626.91%)   |  RRP £19.99

  My One And Only follows actor George Hamilton's teenage years. It's an appealing comedy a road movie set in the 1950s and starring Rene Zellweger as his mother the irrepressible Anne Devereaux. She's a blond Southern belle married to Dan a bandleader (Kevin Bacon) who loves her but is a compulsive womaniser. After finding him in bed with one woman too many Anne leaves him and takes her two sons: George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall) half-brothers from her two marriages. In a sky-blue Cadillac convertible they set off an odyssey to find Anne a new husband - the only way she can imagine to support them. Anne is 40-ish and attractive to men but no longer this year's model. Their journeys take them to a series of her old beaus in Boston Pittsburgh and St. Louis; these hunting expeditions are seen through George's dubious eyes. One is an ex-military sadist one a playboy all not suitable candidates. She tries actually working but being a waitress is beyond her and then she apparently strikes pay dirt with a proposal from a man whose family owns a big house-paint business.

• The Beiderbecke Affair | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £32.98   |  Saving you £-22.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Delightful comedy drama about school teachers Trevor and Jill who are also a duo of amateur investigators. Features all six episodes from the first series: 'What I Don't Understand Is This...' 'Can Anybody Join In?' 'We Call It The White Economy' 'Um... I Know What You're Thinking' 'That Was A Very Funny Evening' and 'We Are On The Brink Of A New Era If Only....

• A Very Brady Sequel | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This second ironic send-up of the old 70s American sitcom is even funnier than the first, The Brady Bunch Movie. Shelley Long and Gary Cole return as the married heads of the merged family known as the Bradys, while Christopher Daniel Barnes and Christine Taylor reprise their roles as eldest stepsiblings Greg and Marcia. As with the first film, the clever premise finds the Brady clan caught in a kind of 1970s time warp, while the rest of the world has moved well into the 90s. Greg is still looking for a "groovy girlfriend", Mr. Brady thinks the idea of a cable that sends 50 channels to one's TV set must be a joke, and Mrs. Brady spends hours at the beauty shop only to look exactly the same as she went in. There's a plot involving an imposter (Tim Matheson) who claims to be Carol's long-lost husband, but the real charge in this comedy comes from the way these pseudo-hip characters deal with sexual taboos (is there any real reason that Greg and Marcia shouldn't get it on?) and the incredulous reactions of other people. --Tom Keogh

• Deathtrap | DVD | (01/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stephen K. Amos - Find The Funny | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £3.86   |  Saving you £16.13 (417.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stephen K Amos: Find The Funny

• Road Trip/Road Trip 2 - Beer Pong | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £19.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (1.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Road Trip: Double Pack (2 Disc)

• The Invention of Lying | Blu Ray | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In a world where all that people speak is the truth, and nothing but the truth, the lying man is king...or so that's what perennial loser Mark (Ricky Gervais) thinks!

• Superjail - | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £18.91   |  Saving you £-2.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Housed on a remote island in a volcano within a volcano - the location of animated-horror comedy Superjail! is part madhouse part ultra-violent penitentiary. Expect gratuitous disembowelment psychedelic sadism and robot-related carnage. Observe from a safe distance only. Wash eyes out thoroughly after viewing.Superjail is the largest and most brutal prison in the world the Warden in charge has gone insane over the years and has decided to make his prison unlike any other in the world.

• No Kidding | DVD | (20/05/2019) from £10.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Leslie Phillips and Geraldine McEwan star as a married couple embarking on a potentially unwise business venture in this light-hearted comedy gem from Carry On legends Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas! Co-starring Julia Lockwood, Noel Purcell and Irene Handl, No Kidding is presented here as a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Bequeathed a rundown country house by a late aunt, The Robinsons are persuaded to turn it into a holiday home for the children of rich parents. They soon come into conflict with the local alderman - but that aggravation pales into insignificance when the children start to arrive! Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Billy Connolly Live Collection - Was It Something I Said?/Live 2002/Billy And Albert | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £25.62   |  Saving you £14.37 (56.09%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Was It Something I Said?: Live In Dublin: Join Billy Connolly on a host of nights during his 2002 tour including top moments from sell-out nights in Belfast Killarney Newcastle Plymouth London Cardiff Bournemouth Sheffield and Manchester. Billy Connolly Live 2002 sees the legendary comedian delivering his take on life in his own inimitable style... Billy And Albert: Billy Connolly captured live on stage at the Albert Hall in 1987 offering his own unusual views of (among others) Thatcher and Reagan linoleum and the Khyber Pass...

• Will Hay - Ask a Policeman | DVD | (28/04/2010) from £5.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Classic 1939 Will Hay film. B&W, 74 minutes.

• The Royle Family - The Complete First Series | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £6.30   |  Saving you £13.69 (217.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On paper, The Royle Family doesn't sound that promising: a working-class family from Manchester sit in their cluttered living room, watch the telly and argue over domestic details (the arrival of a telephone bill, for instance, provides the big dramatic event of the first episode, which aired in September 1998). But from such small everyday incidents, Royle Family creators Caroline Aherne and Dave Best (who play young couple Denise and Dave) have crafted one of the most successful shows on British television: a comedy about the joys and frustrations of family life that's warm, honest and very, very funny--Britain's answer to The Simpsons, whose success the show rivalled when it started broadcasting on BBC2 (the programme jumped channels to BBC1 for its second series).The Royle Family marked an on-screen reunion for Brookside-actors Ricky Tomlinson (who plays bearded, big-hearted, banjo-playing Jim Royle) and Sue Johnston as his wife Barbara, the driving force behind the Royle household. It is smart casting because The Royle Family is as much a soap opera as a situation comedy. Now in its third series, The Royle Family has seen its characters develop like real folk. Denise and Dave got married and now have a little sprog; Barbara starts menopause (how many sitcoms are brave enough to use that for laughs?) and Denise's kid brother Anthony shakes off his surly adolescence when he turned 18 in series two. Unlike Oasis, who provide the shows theme song "Halfway Round the World", this programme just keeps getting better.But no soap--not even Brookside in its dafter moments--has one-liners as brilliantly crafted as The Royle Family. (The scripts from the series are available to buy.) Slouched in his armchair, Jim's dour running commentary on the TV shows that are on at the time are particularly priceless: Changing Rooms, for instance, boils down to "a Cockney knocking nails into plywood... Is this what its come to?" Not quite: because as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson

• The Cleveland Show - Season 1-2 | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Everyone's favourite neighbour, Cleveland Brown, is back in this side-splitting Family Guy spin-off. When Cleveland returns to his former stomping ground of Stoolbend, Virginia to start a new life with his high school sweetheart and their fledgling family, it's a recipe for hilarity.The family careens from one outrageous situation to another as they encounter rednecks, enter a drag race, lead a nerd revolution and tackle the town's troublemaking senior citizens. The laughs just keep on coming when the Stoolbend bunch take their show on the road for wild adventures in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Hawaii. All-star celebrity guests such as Justin Timberlake (as a singing booger, no less), the cast of Glee and Kanye West add to the chaos.Crammed with plenty of bonus features including commentary on selected episodes, hilarious featurettes, deleted scenes and more, The Cleveland Show: Season 1 & 2 Box Set is a must-have for fans!

• Supercon | DVD | (10/09/2018) from £7.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A rag-tag group of former TV stars and comic book artists, who make their living working at conventions, decide to steal the loot from a crooked promoter and an overbearing former TV icon.

• Mr. Popper's Penguins - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (12/12/2011) from £19.70   |  Saving you £5.29 (26.85%)   |  RRP £24.99

  If you're dreaming of a p-p-p-perfect Christmas, why not p-p-p-pick up the fabulously funny family film MR POPPER'S PENGUINS, available on Blu-Ray Triple Play and DVD from 12 December, 2011 courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.