10 Best PG-13 Comedies

It's summer, which means a bunch of girls at my house on a Wednesday night trying to watch R-rated movies on Netflix. As we don't want to be the house where everyone saw Ben Stiller's nutsack (or Will Ferrell's nut sack), we drew a line at PG-13.

The problem is, PG-13 is a weird niche. It's where a lot of crappy comedies end up -- movies that are squeezed out in 6 weeks with just enough raunchy jokes to fill a commercial, but not enough to give the movie an R rating (see, for example, "The Waterboy").

The true comedy classics (Toy Story 3, Back to the Future, Elf, Monty Python and the Holy Grail) are all PG. And the laugh-out-loud comedies of the 21st century are all rated 'R' (Harold and Kumar, 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Hangover, Borat, Role Models) or worse than 'R' (the director's cut of Team America: World Police).

Nevertheless, here are ten PG-13 movies worth watching. As if the world needs more giggling tweens.

1. Happy Gilmore
"The price is wrong, bitch."

2. Stranger Than Fiction.
This is not a laugh-out-loud movie, and not aimed at 12-year-olds. But it's excellent, and I couldn't leave it off the list.

3. Keeping The Faith.
Like "Stranger Than Fiction", this is less silly than the rest of the list, but surprisingly good.

4. Big Daddy
12-year-old girls love watching 5-year-old boys urinate in public.

5. Baby Mama
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have enough talent and chemistry to overcome to mediocre writing.

6. Blades Of Glory

7. The Simpsons Movie

8. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Mini-me is single-handedly responsible for the sequel getting ranked above the original.

9. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

10. Wayne's World

Honorable Mention:

Mean Girls
The only feature-length movie written by Tina Fey.

The Other Guys

Tower Heist

Date Night

Rush Hour

I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry

Austin Powers, International Man Of Mystery
Austin Power fans will want to see this movie ranked higher, but I didn't enjoy it as much the 2nd time around.

Dumb and Dumber
12-year-olds love jokes about diarrhea.

Bruce Almighty
This movie is just like "The Shawshank Redemption" except that they replaced Tim Rollins with Jim Carrey.

Liar, Liar.
Some people like Jim Carrey and some hate him. If you like this movie, there are about 6 other movies just like it (the best of which is Leap Dave Williams).

I'm sure I've missed some. That's what the comments section is for...

As an aside, IMDB.com (with more than 500,000 votes) thinks that "Inception" is the 14th best movie of all time. Better than Star Wars. Are you fucking kidding me?!?