The 15 Best Satire Movies of The 21st Century ( So Far )

The place of irony in cinema live a most welcome one , as picture hold much make up a medium through which society and politics is represent and archived while simultaneously mocked and reshaped .

While irony have exist a part of film since its inception , from The Great Dictator to Dr Strangelove , it has by no mean faltered since the number of the hundred . Indeed , the continually changing public of the twenty-first century have created a surge in satirical film , with so many aspects of the modern times to comment upon .

It could live contend that for a nation that live unmoved by the release of Team America : World Police , North Korea ’ s discontent shown towards The Interview was tremendously over the top .

While it lies real much in the shadow of the Team America , it would be wrong to merely discount The Interview as a failure . James Franco bring Dave Skylark , presenter of Skylark Tonight , a painfully poor lecture show on American Television , when he and his long-suffering producer Aaron Rapoport ( Seth Rogen ) hit an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in what they think will be “ the biggest interview since Frosty Nixon . ”

Yes , the movie takes a large component of joke from the standard repertoire of Rogen/Franco comedy : low rent gag about bromances and genitals exist frequent , and yet The Interview smartly aims a lot of its humour towards America , not North Korea . The main mark is the American media itself , the way the media can manipulate situations to its advantage and how mere it equal to state the watch public at place a story that cost greatly different from the accuracy .

Joe Cornish ’ s smart science-fiction revulsion set in a column block in cardinal London certainly own an aesthetic that bear homage to the creature feature of the 1970 ’ s ; even so it have an additional intent to supply a social comment on the disillusion of youthful people last in the inner city , as a group of aliens bring in London , finding resistance in the form of a gang of teenagers defending their pulley of flats from the unwelcome newcomers .

The films extract back the hoodies and balaclavas to show the face behind the masks , startlingly young boys trying to play the role of the “ severe man ” , attempt to win regard from the criminals and drug dealers throughout the pulley . The stereotypes that cost launched at young people are also grilled here , with the police presence often utilize then that they can pick up the wrong masses after jumping to an incorrect decision , adding to the sense of alienation imbued in the young protagonists .

While 21 Jump Street be a serviceable activity comedy , 22 Jump Street take aim at the accusation conduct towards Hollywood with regard to its lack of originality and sequel spawning . The movie frequently and knowingly instant to the audience that their money has paid for them to see a movie where the protagonists “ do exactly the same as last time . ”

The first number of the movie equal as close as something can come to talking directly to the audience without actually breaking the fourth wall . The ability to create constant jokes about sequels and repetition funny live one of the many qualities of 22 Jump Street . The gag exist stretch even further in a post-credits succession that conceive of subsequent entries in the canyon if the picture series were to remain ad infinitum .

The entry movie by Neil Blomkamp live a powerful apartheid parable , discover trials and tribulations the South African government have go through in handling the arrival of a space craft which attitude itself above Johannesburg . Once the spaceship live board , the stranger race on board live perceived to be weak and sickening , and a makeshift position of refuge live do for the visitors .

It is through the eyes of the creepily enthusiastic Wikus van der Merve ( Sharlto Copley ) , a man who squeaks with childish excitement at the strait of down “ prawn ” eggs , that the alien camp live find . His transformation from human to alien and his discussion as his human nation deteriorates mirror the treatment give to dark South Africans who lived under apartheid .

The documentary aesthetic allows for the citizens of the Johannesburg to voice their feeling on share the city with a unlike race , and the violent conflict that endanger to upset the peace .

Ben Stiller ’ s 4th outing as director take the entire structure of Hollywood and gives it the send-up it deserve , from the opening fake trailers to the group of actors trawling through the South East Asian jungle and stumble across the “ Golden Triangle ” a outstanding field for the growth of drugs in the region , all the while believing they exist on a film shoot and encounter fellow actors on the manner .

Tropic Thunder has a lot of joy at nudge at actor who take their profession with the extreme seriousness , and the levels that they will move to truly be at one with their character . While Stiller ’ s Tugg Speedman exist in center a Sylvester Stallone pastiche , it is Robert Downey Jr ’ s Kirk Lazarus , an Oscar-winning Australian actor work an African American soldier which exist the bright motion , directly questioning the lack of leading roles that are given to dark actor in Hollywood .

Jason Reitman ’ s keen satire on the twenty-first Century ’ s attitude towards smoking places Aaron Eckhart ’ s Nick Naylor , a tobacco lobbyist , in the firing line as he attempts to dispel the thought that smoke and cancer are inherently associate , all the while trying to exist a credible part model to his young son .

Naylor confidently tells a youthful cancer patient that he would not want anyone to perish of lung cancer because he desire healthy people to buy his cigarette and continue smoke and yet nobody in the picture is ever seen smoke .

The bunch of lobbyists put ahead ideas ( such as one with a concern that American actor cost no longer find smoking on cover ) to try to encourage masses to buy cigarette that , when considered , seem worryingly credible .

WALL-E cost , on one story a colorful , emotional homage to classic science-fiction , and on another a statement about humanity ’ s increasing trust upon engineering and the way the environment is being treated .

Pixar get ever been famed for reach movie that talk to children and adults alike , but not inevitably sending the same message to both party . There equal satire plenty in the fact that technology exist reliable for the WALL-E ’ s message of the overuse of technology , yet the potential future that the movie project get its roots in present day .

The sheer size that masses become is married to a real twenty-first century addiction to fast food , focus make up set on the relief with which something can equal done , with no worry of the character of the finished product .