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Slapstick films are comedy films where physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, are highlighted over dialogue, plot and character development.^[1] The physical comedy in these films contains a cartoonish style of violence that is predominantly harmless and goofy in tone.^[1]

Silent film had slapstick comedies that included the films starring Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd.^[1] These comedians often laced their slapstick with social commentary while comedians such as Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges did not contain these social messages.^[1]

There were fewer slapstick comedies produced at the advent of sound film.^[1] The genre resurfaced after the World War II in France with films by Jacques Tati and in the United States with films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Great Race as well as the films of comedians like Jerry Lewis.^[1]

Slapstick films

Slapstick films include:
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1910s

• 
  The Rink (1916)^[2]

1920s

• 
  Safety Last (1923)^[3]


• 
  Sherlock Jr. (1924)^[4]


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  The General (1926)^[5]


• 
  Big Business (1929)^[6]

1930s

• 
  Way Out West (1937)^[7]

1950s

• 
  Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)^[8]


• 
  Mon Oncle (1958)^[9]

1970s

• 
  Bananas (1971)^[10]


• 
  Evil Roy Slade (1972)


• 
  Sleeper (1973)^[11]

1980s

• 
  Airplane! (1980)


• 
  The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)^[12]


• 
  Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)


• 
  Mr. Vampire (1986)^[13]


• 
  Spaceballs (1987)


• 
  Beetlejuice (1988)


• 
  The Naked Gun (1988)^[14]


• 
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)


• 
  See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)^[15]


• 
  Christmas Vacation (1989)


• 
  UHF (1989)

1990s

• 
  Home Alone (1990)


• 
  Problem Child (1990)


• 
  Problem Child 2 (1991)^[16]


• 
  Repossessed (1990)


• 
  The Addams Family (1991)


• 
  The Naked Gun 2 1/2 (1991)


• 
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)


• 
  Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)^[17]


• Addams Family Values (1993)


• 
  Army of Darkness (1993)


• 
  Beverly Hillbillies (1993)


• 
  Dennis the Menace (1993)


• 
  Hocus Pocus (1993)


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  Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)


• 
  Surf Ninjas (1993)


• 
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)


• 
  Baby's Day Out (1994)^[18]


• 
  Dumb and Dumber (1994)


• 
  The Mask (1994)


• 
  The Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994)


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  The Santa Clause (1994)


• 
  Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)


• 
  Happy Gilmore (1996)^[19]


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  Spy Hard (1996)


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  Flubber (1997)^[20]


• 
  George of the Jungle (1997)^[21]


• 
  Home Alone 3 (1997)^[22]


• 
  MouseHunt (1997)^[23]


• 
  Mr. Magoo (1997)


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  There's Something About Mary (1998)


• 
  Wrongfully Accused (1998)

2000s

• 
  Meet The Parents (2000)


• 
  The Emperor's New Groove (2000)


• 
  Scary Movie (2000)


• 
  2001: A Space Travesty (2001)


• 
  Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)


• 
  Scary Movie 2 (2001)


• 
  Super Troopers (2001)^[24]


• 
  Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)


• 
  Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002)


• 
  Scary Movie 3 (2003)


• 
  Night at the Museum (2006)


• 
  The Pink Panther (2006)^[25]


• 
  Scary Movie 4 (2006)


• 
  Epic Movie (2007)


• 
  Meet the Spartans (2008)


• 
  Superhero Movie (2008)


• 
  Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)


• 
  The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

2010s

• 
  Furry Vengeance (2010)


• 
  Grown Ups (2010)


• 
  Vampires Suck (2010)


• 
  Johnny English Reborn (2011)


• 
  Jack and Jill (2011)


• 
  The Three Stooges (2012)


• 
  Thats My Boy (2012)


• 
  A Haunted House (2013)


• 
  Scary Movie 5 (2013)


• 
  Grown Ups 2 (2013)


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  Dumb and Dumber To (2014)


• 
  A Haunted House 2 (2014)


• 
  A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)


• 
  Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)


• 
  Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Drive & Gaim: Movie War Full Throttle (2014)


• 
  Vacation (2015)


• 
  Superfast! (2015)


• 
  Grimsby (2016)


• 
  Fifty Shades of Black (2016)


• 
  Woody Woodpecker (2017)

See also

• List of slapstick comedy topics

Notes