The 30 Best Action Comedy Movies on MagentaTV+ (July 2026)

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Despicable Me (2010)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 80% 1h 35m

Directed by Chris Renaud

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAdopting orphans to steal the moon—Gru's escalating supervillain schemes generate genuine laughs through scale and paternal contradictions.

Gru is a supervillain determined to prove he’s the greatest by stealing the Moon. To pull off his plan, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as part of his scheme. However, as Gru bonds with the girls, his cold, villainous exterior begins to melt.

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Kung Fu Panda (2008)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 87% 1h 30m

Directed by Mark Osborne

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBumbling protagonist's physical comedy contrasts hilariously with wire-work kung fu, making the underdog's triumph both hilarious and earned.

Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of Peace. Under reluctant guidance by Master Shifu and the Furious Five, Po must embrace who he is to unlock the power that no scroll can teach.

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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 94% 2h 50m

Directed by Chad Stahelski

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWick's balletic precision annihilates rooms of armed men with balletic overkill; stylized violence as comedic punctuation.

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

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RoboCop (1987)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 92% 1h 42m

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVerhoeven's satirical corporate newsbreaks and ED-209's malfunctioning rampage weaponize sci-fi satire against ultraviolence itself.

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 26m

Directed by David Zucker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDrebin's deadpan obliviousness creates absurdist humor—he solves crimes by accident while the world collapses around his spectacular incompetence.

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

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Police Story (1985)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 90% Letterboxd 4.0 1h 40m

Directed by Jackie Chan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackie Chan's furniture-smashing rampage through shopping malls treats destruction as comedic choreography—stunts as punchlines.

Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.

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Bang, Boom, Bang (1999)

IMDb 7.5 Letterboxd 3.7 1h 50m

Directed by Peter Thorwarth

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSlapstick incompetence meets heist plotting—bumbling criminals stumbling through elaborate schemes defines the genre's beautiful chaos.

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.

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Despicable Me 2 (2013)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 75% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 38m

Directed by Pierre Coffin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGru's villainous schemes hilariously undercut themselves through escalating gadget malfunctions and adorable minion sabotage.

Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.

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Fast Five (2011)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 77% 2h 11m

Directed by Justin Lin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeElevates heist-action comedy by treating elaborate robbery sequences with playful irreverence rather than breathless intensity.

Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.

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Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)

IMDb 7.3 Letterboxd 3.6 1h 42m

Directed by Marcello Fondato

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEscalating absurdity over a dune buggy prize: pure physical comedy fueling increasingly ridiculous vehicular destruction sequences.

After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.

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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 66% 1h 48m

Directed by Robert Rodriguez

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVampire ultraviolence collides with road-movie comedy as criminals weaponize gasoline and wit against supernatural horror with gleeful irreverence.

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious vampire clientele.

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Fist of Fury (1972)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 48m

Directed by Lo Wei

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRighteous fury fuels balletic combat sequences that prioritize emotional stakes over comedic relief.

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 81% Letterboxd 3.7 2h 10m

Directed by Kim Jee-woon

✦ MovieMuse AI takePark Chan-wook's operatic three-way standoff choreography transforms Western tropes into kinetic ballet—action as visual gag.

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

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Furious 7 (2015)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 81% 2h 19m

Directed by James Wan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransforms revenge thriller into action-comedy through self-aware absurdity: a car literally flies between skyscrapers.

Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.

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Tropic Thunder (2008)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 82% 1h 47m

Directed by Ben Stiller

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMethod actors genuinely trapped in warfare create perfect collision of ego-driven farce and gunfire spectacle.

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

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The Way of the Dragon (1972)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 40m

Directed by Bruce Lee

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBruce Lee's Rome restaurant showdown proves martial arts mastery IS comedy when executed with such balletic precision and style.

After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.

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Crime Busters (1977)

IMDb 7.1 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 55m

Directed by Enzo Barboni

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMistaken-identity recruitment plot weaponizes bureaucratic confusion—comedy premise that naturally generates escalating action setpieces.

An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.

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Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)

IMDb 7.1 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 42m

Directed by Sergio Corbucci

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTreasure-hunting chaos across Pacific island: adventure-comedy's perfect formula of map-chasing hijinks and action-packed slapstick collisions.

Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure

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Double Trouble (1984)

IMDb 7.1 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 40m

Directed by Enzo Barboni

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCelebrity doppelgänger premise generates perfectly timed action beats where comedy stems from mistaken-identity confusion mid-fight sequences.

A stuntman and a saxophonist stand in for two billionaires threatened by killers.

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Logan Lucky (2017)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 59m

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSoderbergh's heist-during-NASCAR-race structure layers mechanical spectacle with character banter, making logistics itself hilarious.

Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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The Foreigner (2017)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 66% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 53m

Directed by Martin Campbell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEmotional revenge plot grounds hand-to-hand combat sequences with rare dramatic weight.

Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

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Abominable (2019)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 37m

Directed by Jill Culton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnimated adventure undermines action-comedy formula entirely—misclassified as genre film; lacks action or genuine comedy.

A group of misfits encounter a young Yeti named Everest, and they set off to reunite the magical creature with his family on the mountain of his namesake.

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Police Story 2 (1988)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 84% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 45m

Directed by Jackie Chan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeChan's gravity-defying rooftop escapes and explosive setpieces collide with comedic timing—stunts as structural comedy.

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

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Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 35m

Directed by Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCross-border romantic tension electrifies espionage action, weaponizing flirtation between ideological opposites through expert martial timing.

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 77% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 26m

Directed by David Zucker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDrebin bumbles energy-industry conspiracy with escalating absurdist logic—each incompetent action accidentally unravels elaborate villainous plots.

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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The Big Boss (1971)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 65% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 39m

Directed by Lo Wei

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLee's ice-factory setting becomes kinetic playground—precise martial arts destruction balanced against understated comic timing and moral restraint.

Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fights. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.

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Bad Boys (1995)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 46% 1h 59m

Directed by Michael Bay

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWill Smith and Martin Lawrence's crackling chemistry ignites Miami mayhem; their banter escalates alongside explosions, proving personality outweighs plot.

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

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Ghostbusters (2016)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 74% 1h 57m

Directed by Paul Feig

✦ MovieMuse AI takeParanormal weaponry (proton packs, traps) becomes comedy prop and action tool, collapsing the distinction between supernatural humor and combat.

Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 68% Letterboxd 3.2 2h 0m

Directed by Guy Ritchie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWWII chaos comedy balances explosive set-pieces with bumbling charm of reluctant, charming British operatives.

During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A true story about a secret British WWII organization — the Special Operations Executive. Founded by Winston Churchill, their irregular warfare against the Germans helped to change the course of the war, and gave birth to modern black operations.

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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 71% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 21m

Directed by Mike Judge

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCross-country mayhem weaponizes slacker ineptitude as bumbling becomes inadvertent stunt comedy.

Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.

Best Action Comedy Movies on MagentaTV+