With the year 2008 almost finished American filmakers presented us with three hundred plus movies. Out of all these movies, over 70 are in the comedic genre. The following are some of the most popular laughers that you can see this year.

FORGETTING SAHRAH MARSHALL: Ater suffering a devastating break up with his girlfriend Sarah, a TV sitcom actress, Peter (Jason Segal) decides to escape to the Hawaiian Islands to start anew and forget about Sarah. As fate would have it, when he arrives at his hotel, the first people he sees are his ex and her new boyfriend, who’s bigger than life. This sets up as a thoughtful romantic comedy.

HAMLET 2: Unsucessful actor Dana Marshz has moved on to teaching theater classes at the high school to uninspired high schoolers. The school loses a building due to destruction, so the school administation feels that the theater curriculum will be what is dropped. Now fully motivated, he tries to save the theater classes by producing Hamlet 2, a new version of the classic, which he writes himself.

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS: Underacheiveing pothead Dale unfortunately has just viewed a crooked police man, and a big time dealer, kill someone. He was spotted, and they know he has seen what’s gone down. Knowing they’ve seen him, he drops his joint of pineapple express, and takes off. The weed is so special, that the bad guys can. The chase is on, Dale and his pot dealer friend Saul are on the run.

STEP BROTHERS: When two 40 year olds, who still live with their single parents, will now have to live in the same bedroom because their mom and dad get married, big problems loom. Casting John Reilly and Will Ferrell in those roles, and the conditions are right for lots of laughs. This comedy looks like a must see for comedy lovers.

ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO: The bills are piling up and Zack and Miri, roomates and good friends, really need to find an answer to their money problems. What will they do? Oh, thats easy, go into the adult entertainment industry. As you might expect this situation makes for lots of laughs.

GET SMART: Agent 86 makes a return to the big screen, and he has us right where he wants us. The classic james bond spy spoof, the shoe phone, and all the classic quotes. This is a modern day version that looks back at the antics of Maxwell Smart.

MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA: This is the continuation to the hugely successful movie Madagascar. The four animal heroes, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippo are ready to go back to the the Central Park Zoo in NY, putting an end to thier incredible adventure. With things going wrong again, as the Penguins are up to their old tricks, they are heading off to their true homeland, Africa.

ROLE MODELS: Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (William Scott) a couple of energy drink sales people, are looking at jail time after destroying the company vehicle while binging. The option to get out of serving jail time is to work in community service for 150 hours. Their task will be to mentor some kids in a community service program. Let the fun begin.

TROPIC THUNDER: Filled with great actors we soon see this movie is a claasic parody of popular war films. In order to inspire his crew to create a quality war film, the now venturesome director into the middle of nowhere, and leaves them there by themselves. The goal is to scare them into producing a war classic, which hidden cameras will capture. Unbelievabley, as the director steps on an old land mine and dies, the crew is left on its own, and they are covinced everything is just an act, but the bullets flying are actually real. Great cast with incredible make up for Robert Downey Jr.and Tom Cruise.

The films listed above, and virtually any other movie ever made, are availiable to buy, rent, or even download right onto your computer. Dowloading movies from websites online has fast become one of the most popular ways for aquiring movies. Look online to locate websites to get free downloads. This is a very good way to build a specific library of movies.