Top 10 Frat Pack Films of the Decade (Editor’s Consensus)
This is the consensus list of the Top 10 Frat Pack Films of the Decade from our most active editors (and one editor-emeritus).
1. Anchorman
2. Old School
3. Wedding Crashers and Zoolander (tie)
5. Tropic Thunder
6. The 40 Year-Old Virgin
7. Dodgeball
8. Meet the Parents
9. Talladega Nights
10. Starsky & Hutch
So, congrats to Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Judd Apatow, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, Christina Applegate and the rest of the crew for making Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy the top film of the decade.
Channel 4 News Team
Here’s the breakdown in voting. Films ranked at number one received ten points, and so on.
It’s interesting to note the nearly clean sweep for Anchorman (which might explain why Mario is only an editor-emeritus). Also notable was the mixed support for Talladega Nights. The film only made two ballots but still finished ninth because the guys who liked it really liked it (compare to Elf and Royal Tenenbaums). The other thing that’s a bit surprising is the clear preference for Judd Apatow’s first directorial effort, Virgin, over his second and bigger box office success with Knocked Up.
| Film |
Josh
Watts |
Kevin
Crossman |
Jon
West |
Nathan
Hughes |
Mario
Bernengo |
Rick
Duran |
Drew
Hunt |
Total
|
Finish
|
| 40 Year-Old Virgin |
5
|
2
|
4
|
6
|
27
|
6
|
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| Along Came Polly |
8
|
3
|
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| Anchorman |
1 |
1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
68
|
1
|
| Blades of Glory |
10
|
1
|
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| Dodgeball |
7
|
6
|
6
|
10
|
5
|
21
|
7
|
||
| Elf |
4
|
8
|
10
|
||||||
| Knocked Up |
6
|
5
|
|||||||
| Meet the Parents |
7
|
9
|
5
|
8
|
9
|
8
|
20
|
8
|
|
| Night at the Museum |
8
|
3
|
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| Old School |
4
|
3
|
4
|
10
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
47
|
2
|
| Royal Tenenbaums |
5
|
5
|
12
|
||||||
| Starksy and Hutch |
9
|
6
|
7
|
9
|
13
|
10
|
|||
| Step Brothers |
6
|
10
|
6
|
||||||
| Superbad |
2
|
9
|
|||||||
| Talladega Nights |
3
|
3
|
16
|
9
|
|||||
| The Breakup |
10
|
1
|
|||||||
| The Hangover |
9
|
2
|
|||||||
| Tropic Thunder |
5
|
6
|
7
|
4
|
10
|
8
|
7
|
30
|
5
|
| Walk Hard |
10
|
1
|
|||||||
| Wedding Crashers |
2
|
8
|
3
|
7
|
4 |
7
|
2
|
44
|
3
|
| Wendell Baker Story |
9
|
2
|
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| Zoolander |
2
|
5
|
9
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
44
|
3
|
Thanks to our editors for putting together their lists. Hope you have enjoyed our little trip down memory lane.
And that’s why David Koechner is Frat Pack Man of the Decade
lol
For the record, I think the top 3 are pretty much interchangeable, so I went with seniority. Anchorman is the most sublime expression of what Zoolander started, but what can I say? I’m old school.
See what I did there? That’s why I’m emeritus.
Dodgeball, Meet The Parents, Tropic Thunder, and Starsky & Hutch all ahead of Superbad is a travesty.
Superbad is easily arguably better than those movies, it’s just that only offering Seth Rogen in a supporting role is not enough to count as a Frat Pack film in my book.
Oh yes, Anchorman rocks! Nice list, thanks for the read.