Comedy cliches

Films with comedy cliches

Dodgeball

Dodgeball is a typical comedy film. There are stereotypes to do with the way you look and how much you way. In this film the fat, unattractive characters are amusing to the audience as they are so out of place in a gym environment. There is an idiot as the main character who is a slob, he lives in a dirty apartment and doesn't pay any of his bills. The audience already want to watch the rest of the film as they want to find out if he does sort himself out. There is an old man in the gym who wants to be younger than he is, which can be quite a cringey character for the audience. There is also minorities in this opening 2 minutes used to amuse the character by making fun of them. There is also a man with a mental illness, which the audience has to laugh at because of his erratic behaviour. Overall, the main people shown in the opening two minutes are all losers and the audience can always predict that this film is going to be a fight of winners v. losers. This film attracts the target audience of comedy as it has already set the story out and introduced funny moment sin the first two minutes, this shows the audience what age this film is directed at.