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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Funny but also touching
Sometimes funny and sometimes touching, the film tells the story of a wealthy patron of the arts and would be opera singer FFJ. She's so bad she's hilarious but, because she's surrounded by sychophantic admirers who appear to be after her money, the shoddy state of the emperess's new clothes is never exposed, until she decides to invite thousands of war heroes to a concert at Carnegie Hall. I found it funny in parts, although not quite as hilarious as some reviewers have claimed. Meryl Streep is pretty good as the wife hiding a health secret that partly explains her husband's infidelities but, for me Hugh Grant steals the show as the fawning husband who initially seems to be a heel only after her money, but is later revealed to have a rather more complicated relationship with his wife. By the end of the film it seems that he really does love her, despite her follies.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Surprisingly funny
I was very pleasantly surprised by this clever comedy which had me laughing out loud throughout. Love-lorn Jason Segal goes on holiday to forget the girlfriend who has just dumped him, and finds that she is holidaying at the same resort with her new man, hilariously played by Russell Brand.
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Clever, funny, original, beautiful
I laughed quite a lot during this lovely film which cleverly satirises the pomposity and cruelty of the Nazi creed while at the same time warning us how young minds can be poisoned. We see Nazis and Jews through the eyes of a member of the Hitler Youth, who has Hitler as an imaginary friend, until he finds a real friend in the older (Jewish) girl his mother is hiding behind a wall. The young lead is brilliant, as is director Taika Waititi in the role of Hitler.