His career has had stages. The early stuff was basic teen romcom, but it worked pretty well: "Sixteen Candles", "Better Off Dead", and "Say Anything" are all fun, if basic.
Then he did young people crime stories. Those don't meet your "fun" criteria and several of them just aren't very good.
When he revisited his romcom roles as an adult, he did a lot of really good stuff. "Grosse Pointe Blank" and "High Fidelity" are really quite good and I liked "America's Sweethearts" but not quite as much. He pretty much nailed that roles with the afore-mentioned "Serendipity".
Then he did a few less popular, but excellent stuff, of which "Max" (not happy) and "The Martian Child" are the best. "War Inc" is in that group, but it really didn't work as satire.
These days, he's back to doing crime, so I guess I have to wait until he's old enough to play a grandfather before I get any more romcom stuff out of him.
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Then he did young people crime stories. Those don't meet your "fun" criteria and several of them just aren't very good.
When he revisited his romcom roles as an adult, he did a lot of really good stuff. "Grosse Pointe Blank" and "High Fidelity" are really quite good and I liked "America's Sweethearts" but not quite as much. He pretty much nailed that roles with the afore-mentioned "Serendipity".
Then he did a few less popular, but excellent stuff, of which "Max" (not happy) and "The Martian Child" are the best. "War Inc" is in that group, but it really didn't work as satire.
These days, he's back to doing crime, so I guess I have to wait until he's old enough to play a grandfather before I get any more romcom stuff out of him.