Get ready to chuckle, guffaw, snicker and chortle along with the eight best comedy movies on Netflix in May 2025.
From mega-box-office-hits like Barbie to Netflix originals like Do Revenge, the streaming service never fails to deliver laughs with its lineup of movies.
Watch With Us has curated a list of the best funny films for you to watch in May 2025. Check them out below.
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'One of Them Days' (2025)
Keke Palmer and SZA bring back the buddy comedy in a big way in this hilarious "day in the life" adventure flick. Dreux (Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) are best friends and roommates, despite their very different outlooks on life. (Dreux is organized and type-A, while Alyssa is a free-spirited dreamer.) But their friendship is tested when Alyssa's boyfriend steals their rent money on the day that it's due. In danger of being evicted, the girls come up with ever-escalating schemes to come up with the money in less than 12 hours.
Palmer is as spectacular as ever, and SZA brings surprising depth to her first-ever onscreen role. Their chemistry as besties is totally believable and entertaining. The supporting cast is full of fun cameos from stars like Katt Williams and Abbott Elementary's Janelle James. You'll root for Alyssa and Dreux the moment you meet them, and you'll laugh your way to the finish line of their desperate quest for that rent money. Don't miss this roller coaster of a comedy!
'13 Going On 30' (2004)
The movie that gave us the phrase "30, flirty and thriving" is now on Netflix! When awkward and unpopular teenager Jenna Rink makes a wish to become a fabulous thirty-year-old woman, she wakes up in the body of Jennifer Garner! While adult Jenna's life seems amazing — she's the editor of her favorite magazine, she has an incredible apartment and the high school popular girl has become her best friend — Jenna realizes that being a grown-up comes with a lot of grown-up problems.
As Jenna endeavors to find herself once again, she reconnects with her childhood bestie Matty (Mark Ruffalo at his dreamiest) and learns what being an adult is really about. Get ready to dance along to "Thriller" in this fun, frothy rom-com.
'Do Revenge' (2022)
Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) star in this dark comedy about two high school girls who team up to "do each other's revenge" — in other words, each girl will take down the other girl's sworn enemy. This hyper-stylized gumball of a movie is subversive and nasty, but it hides some intelligent commentary about grudges and female anger at its center.
Do Revenge feels like a tribute to '80s and '90s teen comedies like Heathers and Cruel Intentions (Sarah Michelle Gellar, who starred in that film, even appears as the Headmaster at the protagonists' private school), but it has a distinctly 2020s aesthetic and philosophy. It's a sharp satire whose many twists will leave you gasping from shock in between laughs.
‘Barbie’ (2023)
In the summer of 2023, Barbie exploded into theaters in a mushroom cloud of bubble-gum pink glory. (Oppenheimer, of course, premiered the same day, leading to a box office phenomenon known as "Barbenheimer.") Now that the movie is available to stream on Netflix, it’s worth revisiting in a quieter setting.
Margot Robbie plays a “Stereotypical Barbie,” who lives in Barbieland alongside a diverse collection of fellow dolls. Because Barbies can “be anything,” the dolls are convinced that all problems of women’s rights have been solved in the real world. But when Stereotypical Barbie begins experiencing “irrepressible thoughts of death,” she travels to the real world and learns that that’s not exactly true.
Ryan Gosling is especially hilarious as Ken, who does his job of “Beach” with hysterical cluelessness. America Ferrera plays a human woman who encounters Barbie in the real world and helps her to save Barbie land with a particularly inspiring monologue. Whether you have a nostalgic love of Barbies or blame them for unrealistic body standards, you will love this movie.
‘The Breakfast Club’ (1985)
An athlete (Emilio Estevez), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a princess (Molly Ringwald), a basket case (Ally Sheedy) and a criminal (Judd Nelson) are sentenced to spend an entire Saturday in detention. Despite the cliques and stereotypes that divide them, the teens start to realize that their classmates have the same issues and anxieties that they do. This John Hughes movie stands the test of time with an unflinching look at how peer pressure, parental demands and sex have always influenced teens. (And probably always will.)
The performances from the “Brat Pack,” as these young actors would come to be known, are wonderfully vulnerable and appealing. There are chase sequences, dance breaks, heists, and more as the kids try to avoid their pompous Vice Principal (Paul Gleeson). It’s a classic for a reason.
‘Baby Mama’ (2008)
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have become an iconic duo due to their collaborations on SNL, Mean Girls, and co-hosting the Golden Globes. Baby Mama is one of the few films they’ve actually starred in together, though, and their chemistry elevates it to comedy greatness. Fey stars as Kate, a driven businesswoman who decides in her late thirties that she wants to have a baby but finds she is unlikely to have success with IVF. Poehler plays Angie, an immature slacker who agrees to become a surrogate for Kate’s baby.
When Angie breaks up with her shiftless boyfriend (Dax Shepard), she ends up moving in with Kate. Despite their clashing personalities, the two women end up helping each other grow — Kate learns to loosen up and be more nurturing, while Angie learns to be more responsible. Watching these two brilliant comedians go through childbirth classes and other parenting milestones together is reliably hilarious.
If you’re a parent or on your way to becoming one, this movie is a must-see. But if you’ve ever had a best friend who drives you insane (and who hasn’t?) you’ll find something to relate to here too.
‘Set It Up’ (2018)
Have you ever had a boss completely take over your life? That’s the situation for Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), who are assistants to extremely demanding executives. Harper works for Kirsten (Lucy Liu), a sharp-tempered sports journalist who demands perfection from her staff. Charlie works for Rick (Taye Diggs), a businessman with severe anger management issues. Realizing their bosses need a distraction so they can regain control of their own lives, Harper and Charlie manipulate Rick and Kirsten into falling in love. “When they’re boning, we’re free!,” says Harper. Of course, the two assistants end up falling in love along the way.
Set It Up hearkens back to when big-budget rom-coms were commonplace and successful. Deutch and Powell have irrepressible chemistry together, and the situations they manufacture for their bosses are absurd in a way that feels endearing. It’s a perfect “watch on your couch with pizza” movie.
‘Matilda’ (1996)
This adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved novel is a classic for the whole family. Matilda (Mara Wilson) is an extremely bright girl in an exceptionally dim family. Her prodigious passion for learning (and especially reading) cannot be squashed by her thuggish father (Danny DeVito, who also directs and narrates the film), her vapid mother (Rhea Perlman) or even the terrifying school principal, Miss Trunchbull (Pam Ferris). Instead, Matilda develops mysterious powers that help her take down the bullies and rewrite her own story.
Wilson is downright adorable in Matilda, and real-life couple Devito and Pearlman are hilarious as her over-the-top oafish parents. It’s a funny, delightful film that lives up to the spirit of the novel, making you believe in the power of books to change lives.
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