12 Action Movies That Are Actually Comedies

September 17th, 2008 by NextRound in Movies

Bangkok Dangerous looks so GD hilarious it got us to thinking about other action movies that are actually comedies. Not action flicks with intentional comedy elements, we’re talking unintentional comedy at its finest. Here are some of our favorites. We’ve limited the list to one movie per actor because we didn’t want this thing to turn into Stallone’s IMDb page.

Firestorm

You haven’t lived until you’ve witnessed Howie Long as a fire-fighting action star. We own the DVD because this flick is the only thing that can cheer us up after a truly horrendous day. The axe-out-of-the-water scene is pretty much the awesomest scene in cinematic history.

Over the Top

Speaking of Stallone, of all the comedic material there is to choose from we go Over the Top for several reasons: A) It’s about arm wrestling, B) Sly’s character has a patented backwards hat turn, C) Scenes with the gay son are tremendous, and D) Someone painted the below picture. If you go Cobra in this spot we won’t argue.

Transporter 2

Makes the first Transporter look like the The English Patient. Of all of Statham’s killer performances this is by far the funniest. Remember the scene where he flips his car upside down and knocks the bomb off the bottom of it? Hysterical.

Lionheart

Jean-Claude Van Damme. Street fighting. Need we say more? If the fight scene in the empty pool where Van Damme and the other dude both rock Chippendale’s outfits doesn’t have you rolling then it’s probably time to start questioning your own sense of humor.

Navy Seals

First you have Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn getting rowdy on the golf course to “The Boys Are Back in Town”. Then you have Sheen refusing to go to a wedding so he jumps from a moving Jeep off a bridge screaming “See you laterrrrr!” until he hits the water. A truly underrated buddy comedy.

The Quick and the Dead

So you’re telling us it’s the old west and some old lady and a 90 lbs. man-boy are the best gunfighters in town? Oh, and Russell Crowe’s there, except he’s a bit of a pussy and needs Sharon Stone to stick up for him? A little pee just came out.

Running Man

The execution game show hosted by Richard Dawson. The yellow spandex suits. The priceless special effects. The Jesse Ventura sighting. Killer stuff. Of all the Schwarzenegger action flicks Running Man is the best bet for laughs. Total Recall is right up there though.

On Deadly Ground

Steagal as a crime-fighting, wilderness protecting, karate kicking Eskimo. The guy is pretty much our generation’s Rodney Dangerfield.

Predator 2

Since the original wasn’t realistic enough the makers of Predator 2 decided to move locations from the jungles of Central America to Los Angeles, where Roger Murtaugh was the only man who could stop alien invaders. The climactic scene where Murtaugh finds the Predators’ lair and all the Predators start high-fiving each other deserves some sort of award.

Batman and Robin

It’s well documented that this is pretty much the worst movie ever made so we won’t get into too many details about what a laugh riot it is, except to remind you that both Batman and Robin’s suits came equipped with ice skates.

Face/Off

They traded faces. Faces! No one could tell them apart! Despite the fact that their body types were nothing alike! Face/Off is worth watching the next time it’s on TNT for the scene where Nick Cage gets stoned if nothing else.

And of course…

Top Gun

It’s kind of mind blowing to think about the number of years Top Gun has been taken seriously. We’re pretty sure it was always intended to be a comedy. How do you film that volleyball scene not anticipating HUGE laughs? We watch the YouTube just about every other day.