The 5 Greatest Action Comedies Of the Last 30 Years, Ranked

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The action comedy is one of cinema's most deceptively difficult genres to pull off, and the proof is in how rarely it gets done well. Hollywood produces dozens of them, slapping comedy stars into car chases or bolting a few one-liners onto shoot-out scenes, but the genre picture that gets produced as a result doesn't often do justice to action-comedies at all. Moreover, they are forgotten within the year, and sometimes even months.