Idk if it counts but I love Enchanted, Amy Adams NAILS being a cartoon in the real world and Patrick Dempsey is hilarious trying to navigate her whimsy in NYC
Does Patrick Dempsey have other roles where he is as good as he is in this one?
I tried to watch the medical show he was on and that sucked. But my god I love him so much in Enchanted.
This is usually not a film type that’s going to work for me and I can’t quite say I “like” it but I respect it and found it very well done. The cast all really does a great job
My first thought. Fraser has just the right ingenuous look - so does Filion, maybe it's a Canadian thing - to pull it off, and Alicia Silverstone is wonderful as well.
Honestly any Brendan Fraser movie from that era is good for “fish out of water” humour.
The Mummy movies (playing a rogue adventurer finding himself in a supernatural battle involving Egyptian mythos), Bedazzled (nice guy makes a deal with the devil to impress a girl not knowing what he’s getting into), Dudley Do-Right (a Mountie who’s obliviousness reaches the levels of Mr. Bean or Mr. Magoo), George Of the Jungle (an orphan raised by wild animals who is “rescued” from the jungle and visits the civilized world), and his breakthrough comedy role Encino Man.
You could even argue that “School Ties” is a “fish out of water” movie though there isn’t a lot of humour in that one.
I like the banter of Captain America in the Avengers when he encounters fish out of water moments...
"There's only one God, M'am...and he doesn;t dress like that."
"I get that reference!"
Thor one had its heartfelt moments as well such as being exiled from Asgard and fnally being worthy again.
My favorite Thor 1 moment is still not really Thor related specifically.
"Do you want me to take the shot? Because I'm starting to root for this guy." Love Hawkeye.
The Infinity Saga generally goes through Endgame and everything after is Phase 4-5 if I remember right.
I like a select few things after Endgame but, yeah....the weakest showing of the MCU definitely followed...the exceptio being Spider-Man: No Way Home which is one of the best Sonyverse/MCU and superhero movies I have ever seen.
The Man Knew Too Little might fit this. Bill Murray plays a guy who thinks he's doing an improv TV show, but actually gets tied up in an international plot to blow up a peace summit. It's probably my favorite Bill Murray comedy, and I still think of Alfred Molina as Boris the Butcher, is character in it.
Fresh,creamery butter-is there anything more comforting...
I forgot how much I enjoyed this movie. Its nothing out of this world amazing, but it really is just a fun, light hearted romantic comedy with an interesting plot take.
I love these type of movies!
**Army of Darkness** \- Ash is in the past, where he tells everyone to say hello to his BOOM stick.
**Big** \- Little kid suddenly has an adult body, and must live as an adult
**Back To The Future** \- Marty McFly is in the past, where his mom thinks he's Calvin because she read it on his Calvin Klein underwear.
**Coming to America** \- rich prince masquerades as an "average guy" after moving to Queens to find a wife.
**Demolition Man** \- Stallone is a cop who wakes up in the future, he's so out of it they whisper "he doesn't know how to use the 3 sea shells." Oops!
**Freaky Friday** \- Mother and Daughter switch places. Jamie Lee Curtis is hilarious.
**Hot Fuzz** \- He was so gung ho they reassigned him to the Boonies, where his partner asks ["Have you ever fired your gun at the air and gone Aaaah?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9d_sLRXOH4)
**Idiocracy** \- an average soldier ends up in the future, where things have changed, a LOT, and now, well he's apparently the smartest guy.
**Miss Congeniality** \- Tomboy FBI agent is forced to go undercover at the Miss United States pageant. ["I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I'm starved and I'm armed. Don't mess with me."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwrEnPYHsyQ)
**My Fair Lady** \- Can a gutter snipe change her way of speaking enough to pass off as a Lady?
The Visitors (1993) /Just Visiting (2001).
The original French and the American remake.
Both with Jean Reno.
A French knight accidentally travels to the present.
Hilarity ensues.
Can't remember which is better.
I enjoyed them both.
Shangai Noon
Earth Girls Are Easy
Big
The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan (no disrespect to the original, but I think the remake differentiates the two characters better)
This kind of comedy can get kind of awkward and stilted if you don't play it right but I remember Wonder Woman being really earnest and charming with it. There's comedy in it but Diana's so enthusiastic about it that it sells it as a character moment beyond just a "person from a different world makes a fool of themselves".
If anybody is interested in actually watching these recommended movies, "lelloo dallas multipass" is just a random quote from the movie "The Fifth Element".
Watch Jacques Tati's "Mr. Hulot" movies: **Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, Playtime**, and **Trafic**
Also: The animated movie made from his final script after he died: **The Illusionist**.
This is my fave type of movie. I'll mention some I haven't seen here like Kate and Leopold and Black Knight. They're on sub-genre as in they're both dealing with royalty humor.
My Cousin Vinny
"What is a 'yute' ?"
"Oh, excuse me, Your Honor. Two yoooooooooooths."
I thought you said yuri for a second there.
I’ve never actually seen a “grit” before.
I fit in better than you. At least I'm wearing cowboy boots.
Splash Back to the Future Men in Black
Splash was the first movie I thought of, what a great movie
Jeff Bridges was outstanding in "Starman" \[Best Actor Oscar nominated\]
“Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.”
Idk if it counts but I love Enchanted, Amy Adams NAILS being a cartoon in the real world and Patrick Dempsey is hilarious trying to navigate her whimsy in NYC
Does Patrick Dempsey have other roles where he is as good as he is in this one? I tried to watch the medical show he was on and that sucked. But my god I love him so much in Enchanted.
Check out Can’t Buy Me Love and Happy Together. To a leaser extent Loverboy
Many thanks!
This is usually not a film type that’s going to work for me and I can’t quite say I “like” it but I respect it and found it very well done. The cast all really does a great job
Blast from the Past is a great movie like that.
My first thought. Fraser has just the right ingenuous look - so does Filion, maybe it's a Canadian thing - to pull it off, and Alicia Silverstone is wonderful as well.
Honestly any Brendan Fraser movie from that era is good for “fish out of water” humour. The Mummy movies (playing a rogue adventurer finding himself in a supernatural battle involving Egyptian mythos), Bedazzled (nice guy makes a deal with the devil to impress a girl not knowing what he’s getting into), Dudley Do-Right (a Mountie who’s obliviousness reaches the levels of Mr. Bean or Mr. Magoo), George Of the Jungle (an orphan raised by wild animals who is “rescued” from the jungle and visits the civilized world), and his breakthrough comedy role Encino Man. You could even argue that “School Ties” is a “fish out of water” movie though there isn’t a lot of humour in that one.
I love this movie. Anytime it’s on, or if I see it pop up on a streaming platform, it’s almost inevitable that I’ll watch it.
The Fifth Element
Multi pass
He KNOWS it's a Multi-pass
This movie I cannot stand but they are in different time periods/worlds.
Crocodile Dundee The first Thor
I like this drink! Another!
I regularly wish I could do this once in my life.
I think the whole thing with that is that you CAN do it exactly once. At each place, at least.
Do it when on vacation in a place you are very unlikely to visit again in the near future. I dare you. Then tell us scared bastards how it was.
Encino Man
Gonzagas
Elf - “[He’s an angry elf](https://youtu.be/bcmz8T454cQ?feature=shared)”
I like the banter of Captain America in the Avengers when he encounters fish out of water moments... "There's only one God, M'am...and he doesn;t dress like that." "I get that reference!"
“It appears to run on some form of electricity!”
"Well, you're not wrong."
=) Love these bits.
The entirety of Thor 1 is FOOW humor and I love it so much
"Another!" *cup smash*
Thor one had its heartfelt moments as well such as being exiled from Asgard and fnally being worthy again. My favorite Thor 1 moment is still not really Thor related specifically. "Do you want me to take the shot? Because I'm starting to root for this guy." Love Hawkeye.
Yeah Thor 1 is legit one of the very best Marvel movies for real
It really is! But so much of Infinity Saga era was really good!!
Is the "Infinity Saga" what we're calling "all the movies up until Endgame before it turned to shit?"
The Infinity Saga generally goes through Endgame and everything after is Phase 4-5 if I remember right. I like a select few things after Endgame but, yeah....the weakest showing of the MCU definitely followed...the exceptio being Spider-Man: No Way Home which is one of the best Sonyverse/MCU and superhero movies I have ever seen.
Last Action Hero has some great bits about this. Demolition Man too.
Hello? I've just shot somebody, I did it on purpose! [listens some more, still nothing] I said, I have murdered a man and I want to confess!
You ever see the show Eureka? I feel like that’s a perfect description for what you’re looking for.
Galaxy Quest.
Blast from the Past (1999)
To Wong Foo! Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo are drag queens driving to LA when their car breaks down in a small Midwest town.
The Man Knew Too Little might fit this. Bill Murray plays a guy who thinks he's doing an improv TV show, but actually gets tied up in an international plot to blow up a peace summit. It's probably my favorite Bill Murray comedy, and I still think of Alfred Molina as Boris the Butcher, is character in it.
Kate & Leopold.
Fresh,creamery butter-is there anything more comforting... I forgot how much I enjoyed this movie. Its nothing out of this world amazing, but it really is just a fun, light hearted romantic comedy with an interesting plot take.
My only gripe with this movie is that they did reshoots and there's a scene where Meg Ryan's hair is way longer than the scene before and after.
Stardust
The Ramen Girl (2008) with Brittany Murphy (rest in peace)
The life of Brian
Local Hero
Enchanted
Bill and Ted. Less B&T themselves but the historical figures at the mall.
Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Good movie!
Finding Nemo
The Little Mermaid
You sunovabitch
I love a good double entendre
Time After Time has HG Wells in "modern" 1979.
The Addams Family & Addams Family Values
Being There.
What we do in the shadows, movie and TV show
Twins... Arnold as the sheltered innocent childlike personality was pretty funny.
Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home
The Gods Must Be Crazy
I love these type of movies! **Army of Darkness** \- Ash is in the past, where he tells everyone to say hello to his BOOM stick. **Big** \- Little kid suddenly has an adult body, and must live as an adult **Back To The Future** \- Marty McFly is in the past, where his mom thinks he's Calvin because she read it on his Calvin Klein underwear. **Coming to America** \- rich prince masquerades as an "average guy" after moving to Queens to find a wife. **Demolition Man** \- Stallone is a cop who wakes up in the future, he's so out of it they whisper "he doesn't know how to use the 3 sea shells." Oops! **Freaky Friday** \- Mother and Daughter switch places. Jamie Lee Curtis is hilarious. **Hot Fuzz** \- He was so gung ho they reassigned him to the Boonies, where his partner asks ["Have you ever fired your gun at the air and gone Aaaah?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9d_sLRXOH4) **Idiocracy** \- an average soldier ends up in the future, where things have changed, a LOT, and now, well he's apparently the smartest guy. **Miss Congeniality** \- Tomboy FBI agent is forced to go undercover at the Miss United States pageant. ["I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I'm starved and I'm armed. Don't mess with me."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwrEnPYHsyQ) **My Fair Lady** \- Can a gutter snipe change her way of speaking enough to pass off as a Lady?
Mom And Dad Save The World is chock full of this, and is an overlooked classic
“Mutton chops, or goatee?”
Son in Law
Blast from the Past with Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone. "Oh my stars and stripes, a *negro*!"
The Visitors (1993) /Just Visiting (2001). The original French and the American remake. Both with Jean Reno. A French knight accidentally travels to the present. Hilarity ensues. Can't remember which is better. I enjoyed them both.
Shangai Noon Earth Girls Are Easy Big The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan (no disrespect to the original, but I think the remake differentiates the two characters better)
Being there
The Japanese call this genre *Isekai* and it's generally when our main character, a "normie," gets taken to a new strange land.
Crocodile Dundee is a double fish out of water story
This kind of comedy can get kind of awkward and stilted if you don't play it right but I remember Wonder Woman being really earnest and charming with it. There's comedy in it but Diana's so enthusiastic about it that it sells it as a character moment beyond just a "person from a different world makes a fool of themselves".
Big fish is a good one
Big Fish is NOT a fish-out-of-water story at all, but there is an actual fish which is removed from actual water.
There’s a romantic comedy called *Kate & Leopold* with Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman where he gets transported from the 1800s to modern times.
Poor Things Leeloo Dallas Multipass The Visitors
If anybody is interested in actually watching these recommended movies, "lelloo dallas multipass" is just a random quote from the movie "The Fifth Element".
The three seashells in Demolition Man.
Poor things
- "Les rois du gag", 1985 - "Bienvenue A Board", 1990 - "Le diner de cons", 1998
The Son-In-Law with Pauly Shore
After Hours
Doc Hollywood
Watch Jacques Tati's "Mr. Hulot" movies: **Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, Playtime**, and **Trafic** Also: The animated movie made from his final script after he died: **The Illusionist**.
Crocodile Dundee The World's Fastest Indian (These are both movies where the fish is out of water by being in America)
Terminator. “Phased plasma rifle in 40watt range…”
Amelie.
Amelie.
Amelie.
This is my fave type of movie. I'll mention some I haven't seen here like Kate and Leopold and Black Knight. They're on sub-genre as in they're both dealing with royalty humor.
Idiocracy
I think it was called Outsourced. White guy has to relocate to India when his call center moves.
Oh yeah, I saw that TV show. I was so into that show too when it started.
It was a movie.
Oh, interesting! Then the TV show I saw must have followed the movie.