01 Absurdist comedy that only could have landed in this exact era.
16 Best 2000s Movies for a Nostalgia Trip
By Vlad Zakh · August 23, 2026
United States Comedy nostalgic
The 90s get most of the nostalgia lists, but the 2000s had its own entire aesthetic. These are the ones that instantly put me back in that decade.
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02 The decade's last great comedy before the genre shifted entirely.
03 The indie-comedy voice that defined a specific late-2000s tone.
04 The teen comedy that closed out the decade's run.
05 Absurd in a way that could only have come from this exact decade.
06 Jack Black at his most purely enjoyable.
07 Lindsay Lohan's body-swap comedy at its most rewatchable.
08 A body-swap comedy that's aged into a genuine comfort watch.
09 The start of a franchise nobody expected to still be running.
10 Peak early-2000s energy, cheerleading rivalry and all.
11 A theme-park ride turned into an actual blockbuster classic.
12 The superhero movie that made the genre feel possible again.
13 The pop-culture-reference comedy that launched a genre of imitators.
14 The romance movie the entire decade measured itself against.
15 A weird, deadpan comedy that somehow defined a whole aesthetic.
16 Still the most quoted teen comedy of the decade, for good reason.