do you really expect me to believe that
when she just returned the fifty
thousand dollars that i gave her
what fifty thousand dollars the fifty
thousand dollars you stole from her
i didn't steal fifty thousand dollars
from her welcome to watch mojo and today
we're counting down our picks for the
top ten
unexpected plot twists in comedy movies
hold on a second are you telling me that
this whole thing was a game
like stone cold dead you see as much as
i enjoyed your wild theater sergeant the
truth is far less complex
for this list we'll be looking at any
film with comedic elements that contains
a plot twist that you
likely didn't see coming of course
there'll be spoilers ahead
has any comedy movie ever shocked you
let us know in the comments below
now let the shocking hilarity begin
number 10 the gentleman one of 2020's
few wide releases the gentleman is a guy
richie original starring matthew
mcconaughey
as marijuana kingpin mickey pearson
there can be no doubt
because doubt causes chaos and one's own
demise
pearson wishes to sell his empire in
england resulting in the scheming of
numerous interested parties
that's it my infrastructure
that sir is with my blessing what you
are paying for if it's as discreet and
as lucrative as you claim it is
all by the whole business another
leading character is hugh grant's
fletcher
he's a private investigator who digs up
dirt on pearson
writes a scathing screenplay and offers
to sell it back to pearson's right-hand
man for a hefty sum
why are you wasting our time i know what
happens in my world and what doesn't
what i fail to recognize is why michael
should be motivated to write you a check
for 20 million
most of the movie is told through this
screenplay unable to extort money from
raymond fletcher reveals he's been
working with russians
and they arrive to kill raymond fletcher
then pitches his screenplay to miramax
the same company who produced the
gentleman only to subsequently take a
cab
being driven by none other than raymond
himself
heathrow airport please terminal three
and thence to sunny california
buenas tardas flechamondo
number nine once upon a time in
hollywood
tarantino's love letter to 60s hollywood
plays
with concurrent narratives one follows
actor rick dalton and his stuntman
and good friend cliff booth while
another follows sharon tate
this being tarantino he uses our
collective knowledge of history to
subvert expectations for both shock
and comedy a what-if story for the ages
the story lines converge in the climax
which sees the manson family members
arriving at the tate house
and just when we expect the tragic
ending tarantino throws a curveball
and has both rick and cliff take care of
the intruders in equally gruesome and
hilarious ways
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rick burning sadie with the flamethrower
has to be one of the most
memorable images of 2019 and also one of
the most unexpected
such is the brilliance of tarantino
number eight duplex directed by danny
devito
duplex stars ben stiller and drew
barrymore as
alex and nancy two young professionals
who move into their dream brooklyn
brownstone
however the dream is crushed when their
upstairs neighbor the elderly mrs
connolly
proves a nuisance hey carmen you bud
pipe this is the time of year you're
supposed to share
oh yeah you're right are you going to
eat all of your peach cobbler
no you don't want to dye that why don't
you share it with me their annoyance
turns to frustration which eventually
turns to thoughts that are a little
more fatal we later learn that the
unhelpful realtor and nypd officer are
related to connolly
the realtor is her son and the officer
his romantic partner
the three run a real estate scam by
running to naive young couples
forcing them out through harassment and
annoyance and collecting the sales
commissions
trust me it wasn't easy holding me
breath all that long
next time i want a bigger cut of your
commission kenny what are you talking
about we give you everything ma
it's barely enough left over for danny
and i to have a little cruise to the
caribbean
the worst part is that it actually works
as alex and nancy eventually leave
and open the door for the next
unsuspecting couple
number seven dirty rotten scoundrels
the story of dirty rotten scoundrels has
been told three times
the 1964 original bedtime story this
1988 remake
and the 2019 remake the hustle starring
anne hathaway and rebel wilson
taking place on the french riviera the
story concerns
two con men freddy and lawrence
attempting to swindle 50 000
out of a rich american heiress named
janet colgate
we're the weaker sex men don't live as
long as women we get more heart attacks
more strokes more prostate trouble
i say it's time for a change i
say let them give us money let's live
off them for a while
however the climax reveals that janet is
also an accomplished con artist
and she cons fifty thousand dollars out
of freddy and lawrence
do you really expect me to believe that
when she just returned the fifty
thousand dollars that i gave her
what fifty thousand dollars the fifty
thousand dollars you stole from her
i didn't steal fifty thousand dollars
from her
the ending itself sees janet posing as a
real estate developer
where she admits to have stolen millions
of dollars throughout the years
last year i made three million dollars
but your 50 000 was the most fun
are you ready
but let's go get them number six this is
the end
despite being a meta-apocalyptic comedy
from seth rogen and evan goldberg
this is the end is actually a sweet
story about friendship
accepting differences and spiritual
redemption perhaps one of the biggest
twists is that there is
no twist whereas some may have expected
the apocalypse stuff to be some type of
drug trip
the rapture is actually real and
everyone actually dies
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more than that the characters learn that
they can be saved with a capital s
through an unselfish act craig robinson
sacrifices himself and is beamed into
heaven as a result
and after some obvious fakery really
you're such a smart guy
thanks that's you're such a nice guy you
got a great smile
thanks man and an awesome laugh both
seth rogen and jay barrochelle
are saved after making amends with each
other who knew a stoner comedy about the
apocalypse would have such a
heartwarming message
kind of getting the feels just thinking
about it number five
game night serving as one of the best
and most original comedies of 2018
game night concerns a group of friends
and family members whose
game night gets real when one of them is
kidnapped
the independent spirit award goes to
let's go
first when it follows this get shot okay
roger that you drive safely
that was amazing the others believe the
kidnapping is simply
part of the game and go along with it
not realizing that they are
actually in danger the ending itself
sees multiple twists and turns
gary the awkward police officer who is
continuously rebuffed by the hosts
reveals that his shooting was planned
and then he concocted the entire
abduction so that he could take part in
the game night
are you telling me that this whole thing
was a game
sorry they got up they got up when i
learned you stopped inviting me
to your game nights i hijacked brooks's
murder mystery party and i staged
kidnapping of my own
however even the twist is subverted when
the characters realize the bulgarian
plot is real
he shows up actually shoots gary and
kidnaps brooks for his whitsec
aka witness security program list
no no you give him that list he's gonna
kill me that's nonsense the hell is
wrong with you
i'm just trying to buy myself some time
not much we're just gonna cut it out of
you on the jet
take him number four knives out
this wonderful whodunit freshly subverts
the genre tropes by actually revealing
who done it or does it throughout the
movie we're led to believe that marta
accidentally overdosed harlan with
morphine after mixing up his medicine
like stone cold dead yes your full
symptoms in five sweats disorientation
and then
yes that big dose injected within 10
your
your brain and yes
10 minutes this resulted in harlan
slitting his own throat to save marta
from being investigated
however the truth is far more complex
as private eye blanc deduces harlan's
son
ransom planned the drug mix-up so marta
would be framed for harlan's death
thereby negating her inheritance you
knew what medications harlan took he
knew what marta would be injecting him
with that night
and you know if marta was responsible
for his
death even unintentionally
the slayer rule would nullify the change
will and
you would get your share back
furthermore marta didn't actually
overdose harlan
as she ignored the labels and correctly
identified the medicine by its texture
you gave him the correct medication
because you
are a good nurse
and heartland was i'm sorry marta but
yes
holland was perfectly fine despite
ransom killing fran
and burning the medical records to hide
marta's innocence
she manages to lie and keep herself from
vomiting long enough to implicate him in
fran's murder
that means she's lying yeah man we know
that's right fran's dead
and you just confessed to her murder
number three
the cabin in the woods drew goddard the
cabin in the woods is a wonderful
love letter to horror movies
intelligently using their numerous
age-old tropes in a fresh
and unique fashion a group of college
students travel to a cabin in the woods
where a bunch of horror tropes proceed
to take place
would you say i think we got enough gas
we got enough to get you there
getting back that's your concern
there's a creepy diary with incantations
zombies
really stupid decisions made by the
characters and of course
sex however the twist is that these
tropes are completely controlled by
people
in an underground laboratory they pump
in pheromones to increase sex drive
and drugs to inhibit rationality and the
lab contains every archetypal monster
imaginable which they utilize to try to
kill the cabin's inhabitants
oh that [ __ ] we're playing with they
made us choose
they made us choose how we die this is
how you make old things
new again number two hot fuzz
serving as the second entry into edgar
wright's
three flavors cornetto trilogy hot fuzz
is a combination parody of buddy cop
movies and slashers
studious police constable nicholas angel
suspects that the numerous fatal
accidents occurring around town are
actually
murders why is this such a big joke to
you
three people have died in a week oh come
on doctor sherlock they were accidents
people have accidents every day
the victims knew each other uh everyone
knows everyone around there yeah
he and danny butterman concoct an
elaborate scheme involving real estate
to explain the link in the murders but
as simon skinner points out
you see as much as i enjoyed your wild
theory sergeant the truth is far less
complex
blowers fate was simply the result of
his being
an appalling actor
you murdered him for that the murders
aren't enacted by one killer
but the entire neighborhood watch
alliance and they didn't do it for real
estate
they simply did it because the victims
were jeopardizing the village's
reputation
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number one parasite largely considered
the greatest movie
of 2019 the black comedy parasite
contains one of the greatest and most
shocking plot twists in recent memory
throughout the first half of the film
audiences watch the poor kim family as
they ingratiate themselves within the
wealthy park family
and leech off their success
but everything changes knocks on the
park door
the ex-housekeeper makes her way to the
basement which is revealed to contain
her husband
gun gunsay who has been living there for
years
it's a shocking twist and it eventually
culminates in the movie's bloody and
deadly climax
it plays into the story's class-based
themes and it turns
a black comedy into a borderline horror
movie
proving writer director bong joon ho's
complete mastery of the filmmaking craft
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