The 6 Most Fun Movies Released Since 2010
There are movies you recommend carefully, and then there are movies you almost shove into somebody’s hands. The 6 films on this list are from the latter category. These are the ones that make you text someone halfway through with some variation of, “Dude how have you STILL not seen this?”
The last fifteen years have produced plenty of louder, costlier spectacles. These six have something harder to manufacture. Personality. Every one of them feels delighted by its own possibilities, whether that means turning a tabletop campaign into a jailbreak, putting fighter jets through mountain canyons, or using two rocks with googly eyes to somehow break your heart. Fun this good has craft underneath it. Let’s dissect how.
6 'The LEGO Movie' (2014)
The LEGO Movie opens in a world where everyone follows instructions, sings the same song, buys the same overpriced coffee, and considers Emmet (Chris Pratt) perfectly ordinary. Then this aggressively average construction worker stumbles onto the Piece of Resistance and is mistaken for the most important person alive. The joke is already great. Making the least imaginative guy in a universe built around imagination its chosen hero is even better.
Once Emmet joins Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), Batman (Will Arnett), Benny (Charlie Day), and the rest of the Master Builders, the movie behaves like a child has been given unlimited bricks and zero supervision. Vehicles rebuild themselves mid-chase. Batman writes extremely serious music about darkness. Benny finally gets to build his spaceship and reacts exactly as anyone who waited an entire movie to build a spaceship should. The live-action turn also gives all that chaos an unexpectedly human reason to exist. You laugh at Lord Business (Will Ferrell) for wanting everything glued in place, then realize most adults have probably been Lord Business at least once.
5 'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' (2023)
A bard, a barbarian, a sorcerer with confidence issues, and a druid walk into a fantasy adventure after a heist goes catastrophically wrong. That sounds like the beginning of a tabletop joke, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves wisely spends most of its runtime enjoying exactly how badly this group can improvise.
Edgin Darvis (Chris Pine) keeps selling plans that collapse almost immediately. Holga Kilgore (Michelle Rodriguez) solves a surprising number of problems by hitting them. Simon Aumar (Justice Smith)’s magic can be brilliant right up until he has to believe in himself. Doric (Sophia Lillis) turns into an owlbear and makes a very convincing argument for why more movies need owlbears. Then there is the graveyard scene, where the party uses Speak with Dead and discovers that five questions sound generous until you waste one asking whether a corpse understood the previous question. The movie knows the lore without treating newcomers like outsiders. More importantly, it captures the best part of an actual campaign. Half the joy comes from surviving whatever stupid thing your friends just did.
4 'Top Gun: Maverick' (2022)
This movie was so good I had to stop being arrogant and watch the franchise in reverse. Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is still flying when most pilots from his generation have moved into offices. Then Top Gun: Maverick gives him an assignment cruelly suited to everything he has spent decades avoiding. He has to train younger pilots for an almost impossible mission, including Rooster (Miles Teller), the son of Goose (Anthony Edwards).
The flying gives the movie its rush. Actors were filmed inside real jets, and you can feel the physical strain whenever a turn presses someone into the seat. Maverick proving the mission can be flown by doing it himself is pure crowd electricity. The final operation keeps tightening the screws until every obstacle already discussed in training starts arriving for real. Yet the movie also understands that Maverick cannot simply outfly the past forever. Rooster makes Goose’s absence personal again, while Iceman (Val Kilmer)’s return carries years of history without needing a long speech. This is blockbuster entertainment with old-school confidence. It knows exactly when you want the engines louder.
3 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' (2018)
This is an animated Spider-Man film that everybody treats as if it’s real. But there’s a reason for it. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) gets spider powers and handles the situation terribly. His hands stick to Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld)’s hair. His body refuses to cooperate. He suddenly has abilities nobody explained, while school, family, and everything else in his life continue demanding attention. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse understands that becoming Spider-Man should be exhilarating eventually. First, it should be extremely embarrassing.
Then Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson) arrives looking like superhero life has included several bad years and too much pizza. Gwen follows. So do Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn), Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage), and Spider-Ham (John Mulaney), because apparently one Spider-Person was nowhere near enough. The movie lets each universe carry its own visual language, yet Miles never disappears beneath the style. His leap from the skyscraper remains one of the great superhero moments because the image is tied to a simple emotional breakthrough. He finally chooses to believe he belongs there. The city falls upward around him, “What’s Up Danger” kicks in, and suddenly sitting calmly on the sofa becomes impossible.
2 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road introduces its priorities very quickly. Cars are religion. Water is power. War Boys spray chrome into their mouths before suicidal acts of devotion. Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) owns an army, and somewhere inside that army is a guitarist strapped to a moving wall of speakers whose instrument shoots fire. Cinema occasionally gives us gifts we did not know to request.
Furiosa (Charlize Theron)’s escape with Joe’s wives turns almost the entire movie into one enormous pursuit, yet the action never becomes visual soup. You understand the War Rig, the terrain, the vehicles closing in, and the mechanical problem that could destroy everything. Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) spends much of the story trying to escape everyone around him until their survival becomes tangled with his own. Nux (Nicholas Hoult) begins as a fanatic desperate to die gloriously and ends up finding a far more meaningful reason to act. Then the characters reach the place they thought would save them and make the wildest possible strategic choice. They turn around. The movie somehow gets more exciting from there.
1 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (2022)
Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) is being audited by the IRS, her laundromat is struggling, her father is visiting, her daughter Joy Wang (Stephanie Hsu) is hurting, and Waymond Wang (Ke Huy Quan) is carrying divorce papers. She does not need another problem. Then a version of Waymond from another universe tells her that countless realities are collapsing and she may be the person who has to save them.
From that point, Everything Everywhere All at Once becomes gloriously impossible to summarize without sounding unwell. Evelyn learns skills from alternate lives. A universe with hot-dog fingers becomes genuinely romantic. A raccoon controls a chef. Two rocks sit above a canyon and somehow deliver one of the movie’s most moving conversations. The fights are hilarious until a gesture suddenly turns emotional, and the multiverse keeps getting larger while the real conflict keeps shrinking toward one mother and daughter who cannot figure out how to reach each other. That is why the chaos never becomes empty spectacle. Underneath every costume change, martial-arts gag, googly eye, and universe jump is a desperate wish to connect. Very few movies have ever been this weird, this sincere, and this much damn fun at the same time.
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