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Is there a movie that falls in the genre of comedy that is also a clear example of the Hero's journey. The only one I could think of that might work is Mystery Men (1999).
Spaceballs.
Galaxy Quest.
Orgazmo.
Orgazmo.
Damn, you're right, and I watched the the Orgazmo commentary, too.
Frankly, it's like we discussed in the Ghostbusters commentary: a good comedy is a drama with jokes. Which means that you're looking at following classic structure in many cases -- just, with jokes.
Name any comedy that isn't a spoof and I'd say there's a 90% chance you can make a case for the hero's journey. Hell, if we're allowing spoofs -- Spaceballs was mentioned above -- most of those too, since they're probably based on a movie that you can apply the hero's journey to. This is not counting the worthless "spoof" movies of the last five years, which were just a series of other movies' trailer shots with poop added.
Ghostbusters; The Princess Bride; Stripes; Animal House; Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; Shaun of the Dead; School of Rock; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; Bruce Almighty; Shrek; Men in Black; Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure; Team America: World Police; There's Something About Mary; Liar, Liar; Home Alone; Wayne's World; Zombieland...
Et cetera.
Is there a movie that falls in the genre of comedy that is also a clear example of the Hero's journey. The only one I could think of that might work is Mystery Men (1999).
They all follow more or less the same structure. And as indicated by others, it's the same structure but with jokes. There is a whole lot of info about structure and 40 Year Old Virgin, Groundhog Day, Liar Liar and other comedies over at http://www.clickok.co.uk/index4.html
Good Luck.
Hi Dawy, welcome to the forum!
Call to action, training, loss of the mentor, confrontation with the dark lord, setback, and triumph. It's all there in any comedy adventure like The Goonies as it is in high adventure.
As my 7-y-o nephew pointed out, there's not much difference between Star Wars and Scooby Doo.
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