Top 5 Highest Grossing Comedies of 2015 (with trailers)
Published:Have a laugh (or several) while watching any of the Highest Grossing Comedies of 2015! It was a good year for animated comedy movies, as FOUR out of the top 5 movies on our list are computer-generated! Who knows, maybe Pitch Perfect 3 will end up being computer generated too! ;-P
1) Minions
- Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin
- Director Pierre Coffin voices all 899 minions in this film!
- The leading three minions were designed to resemble Gru's daughters: Margo, Agnes and Edith
- The language known as "Minionese" which is spoken by the minions is a mix between several languages including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Hebrew and Gibberish
- 2015 Domestic Gross: $336,045,770
2) Pitch Perfect 2
- Director: Elizabeth Banks
- Anna Kendrick improvised nearly half of her lines
- The Green Bay Packers actually do their own singing. They also didn't learn their choreography until the night before filming
- Real acapella groups were used during filming, including Pentatonix (winners of The Singoff season 3) and Penn Masala (who have released 8 albums and sung for President Obama)
- 2015 Domestic Gross: $183,785,415
3) Hotel Transylvania 2
- Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
- Cee-Lo Green did not reprise his role as the voice of Murray The Mummy due to his arrest. Instead, Keegan-Michael Key replaced him
- The parents of Jonathan, voiced by Andy Samberg, are voiced by real-life husband and wife, Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
- Mel Brooks plays the voice of "Vlad", aka "Dracula". Brooks directed the 1995 comedy "Dracula: Dead and Loving It"
- 2015 Domestic Gross: $168,774,344
4) The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
- Directors: Paul Tibbitt, Mike Mitchell
- This is the first Hollywood-studio animated film to use hand-drawn animation, since the release of Winnie the Pooh (2011)
- Bubbles the magic dolphin is completely made from stop-motion animation
- The outfits worn by Bikini Bottom residents during the Krabby Patty-less post-apocalypse are references to the Mad Max movies
- 2015 Domestic Gross: $162,994,032
5) The Peanuts Movie
- Director: Steve Martino
- First Peanuts film since the death of creator Charles M. Schulz in 2000
- The first theatrical Peanuts movie in 35 years
- Charlie Brown does his book report on "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, which was Charles Schulz's favorite novel
- 2015 Domestic Gross: $128,763,058
