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* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/IceAge1]]'': Three mammals and a baby. Also, unlucky guy tries hiding his food.
** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown]]'': The mammals meet three even weirder mammals. The day is saved by the unlucky guy.
** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs]]'': One of the mammals discovers fatherhood. An attempt of another to do the same leads him to need rescue. The unlucky guy meets the woman of his dreams... and leaves her behind for food.
** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift]]'': Unlucky guy causes the mammals to face both family problems and outlaws.
** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse]]'': Unlucky guy causes the mammals to face family problems IN SPACE!
* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Idiocracy}}]]'': {{Blood Sport}}s are used as punishments, and humans nearly go extinct from incompetence, famine and drought. It's a comedy.
* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}]]'': A mad scientist's assistant invents something revolutionary, with the help of an immortal suicidal rabbit and a brain in a jar. His plans backfire when his invention does not turn out evil, and instead aspires to be Theatre/{{Annie}}.
* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Ikiru}}]]'': An EmptyShell of a man works in an ObstructiveBureaucracy for 30 years. Decides to build a park.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/InBruges]]'': Mad-Eye Moody, Fleur Delacour and Lord Voldemort hang out in a small Belgian town with Colin Farrell and a midget. They all try to kill each other.
** Alternately: Two Irish hitmen get sent by their boss on a boring sightseeing tour.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheImitationGame]]'': InsufferableGenius hires people through a CrosswordPuzzle trying to solve the gibberish caught on the radio. Based on a true story.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/AnInconvenientTruth]]'': Famously dull former politician delivers slide-show presentation with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimmock_v_Secretary_of_State_for_Education_and_Skills#The_nine_inaccuracies errors in it]]; receives two Academy Awards for his trouble.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Inception}}]]'': 8 people fall asleep in the first class cabin of a plane.
** Or: Man with daddy issues gets {{mind rape}}d by 7 people he doesn't know, on the request of a man that he didn't know he threatened.
** Or: A guy kills his wife and leads a group in feeding a perfectly fine guy lies. He gets over his justified guilt and succeeds. It's a good ending.
** Or: A film where you're not sure [[AllJustADream whether anything really happens]].
** A man deals with his guilt over the death of his wife; ''very, very metaphorically''.
* [[spoiler:''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'']]: A man tries to deal with his inner demon, but his girlfriend's father won't let him.
* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'']]: Two former celebrities and their children fight a wannabe ex-fan.
** [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'']]: One of the celebrities gets a new job in public relations, and fights [[EvilReactionary a guy who really hates the mass media]]. Her husband struggles to raise the kids by himself, especially when their youngest starts to spontaneously combust.
* [[spoiler: ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan'']]: A man winds up living in his basement after an unfortunate incident involving his cat.
* [[spoiler: ''Film/IndependenceDay'']]: A witty pilot and a cable repairman get into a fifty year-old used vehicle. Genocide ensues.
** [[spoiler: ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'']]: The genocide victims try to blow up the home of the responsible. A giant white marble features in the plot in a way.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/IndianaJones'']]: College professor kills soldiers and steals priceless cultural treasures at the request of the United States government. Smash hit.
** ''[[spoiler:Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk]]'': A college professor joins forces with a bartender to fight an entire army over a box that will kill you if you try to open it.
*** or: [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] races [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie Ivan Ooze]] to a box.
** ''[[spoiler:Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom]]'': College professor, Asian kid and [[DamselInDistress a singer whose only purpose in the movie is screaming]] go to a palace with hideous food, plenty of bugs and a bloodthirsty cult.
** ''[[spoiler:Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade]]'': To get her hands on an old cup, a woman sleeps with both a college professor and his father.
*** Alternatively, college professor reconciles with his father.
** ''[[spoiler:Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull]]'': College professor and JerkJock go to the middle of the jungle to prevent Communists from getting their hands into artifacts NotOfThisEarth.
* [[spoiler:''Film/InglouriousBasterds'']]: [[BloodKnight Brutal]], [[AxCrazy sadistic]] [[SociopathicSoldier Jewish psychopathic war criminals]] versus [[FauxAffablyEvil witty, urbane]] [[ThoseWackyNazis German psychopathic war criminals.]]
** Or, Creator/QuentinTarantino teams up with Eli Roth, Brad Pitt, and the Jewish kid from ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks''. Their mission is to stab history in the face. With a baseball bat.
* [[spoiler:''Film/{{Ink}}'']]: A ragtag bunch of invisible, stylish, physically fit, attractive [[spoiler: dead]] people try to get a young girl to wake up after she is kidnapped by an albino with a gigantic schnoz. This can only be done if her dad stops being a JerkAss.
* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'']]: [[RedOniBlueOni An overtly happy woman and her depressive friend]] try to deal with the troublesome relocation of their workplace.
** Or: ''Series/HermansHead'', the cartoon.
** Or: Two girls get lost in a pile of marbles and try to take the train home. With the help of a hobo, they go through a torture chamber, hijack a movie studio, and unleash a monster from the dungeons. It's actually a TearJerker.
** Or: Girl deals badly with moving, decides to get away on bus, and still gets off it.
** Or: The stress from moving to a new town causes a young girl to lose her marbles.
* [[spoiler:''{{Film/Interstellar}}'']]: Astronauts embark on a decades-long quest into deep space to find a way to save humanity from extinction, but it turns out all they needed was a broken watch.
** A farmer and his coworkers take a ridiculously long time looking for a new house and later finds a nice hole to text his kid her math homework. He makes friends with the giant [=iPhones=].
* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Insomnia}}]]'': A cop who doesn't get enough sleep bungles his way through a murder mystery in some backwater town. It's not a comedy.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/InterviewWithTheVampire]]'': A dysfunctional family consists of an [[AmbiguouslyGay effete]] Parisian socialite, an {{emo}} former slave owner, and an increasingly bitter "child" who kills for fun and profit. Later, two of them conflict with a theatrical group.
** ''[[spoiler:Film/QueenOfTheDamned]]'': A French violinist forms a rock band, pisses off all of his old friends, and gets kidnapped by an Egyptian nymphomaniac.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/InTheLoop]]'': [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] flies to Washington DC to duke it out with [[Series/SledgeHammer Sledge Hammer]] and [[Series/TheSopranos Tony Soprano]] over a clerical error.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheInvisibleMan2020]]'': Traumatized wallflower struggles to convince people that her ex is both not over her and surprisingly sneaky.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/IAmLegend]]'': A cure for cancer...doesn't.
** Alternatively: A lonely man finds a woman and child for life.
* ''[[spoiler: Film/IRobot]]'': A detective, while investigating a death in a corporate building, learns that the company's new product line is defective.
** Alternatively: A bigoted, superstitious CowboyCop meets scientist, Messiah figure, and a villain who is a product of the excesses of corporate America
* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant]]'': [[ABoyAndHisX A boy keeps a big tin can in his family barn. They become best buddies.]]
** Or: Two children discuss the value of peace and life. Then, bigger one responds by shooting at the United States military and taking a nuclear missile to the face and being blown apart, then recovering.
** Or: Someone else's hunting trip makes someone uneasy. In the climax they respond by taking a nuclear missile to the face.
* ''[[spoiler: Film/IronMan1]]'': Terrorists put an [[BadassBookworm engineer]] in a cave with a box of spare parts. This leads the man to solve unethical business practices of his company.
** OR: A rich guy goes to Asia to drink and flirt, gets a new suit, and leaves with a new enlightened outlook on life.
** OR: Rich drunk with a heart condition builds flying hot-rod, races larger hot-rod.
** OR: Rich drunk human [[VideoGame/DwarfFortress goes through a fey mood.]]
** ''[[spoiler: Film/IronMan2]]'': Rich drunk man tries not to get killed by his hot-rod and/or knockoffs of it.
** ''[[spoiler: Film/IronMan3]]'': Rich [[ShellShockedVeteran traumatized]] drunk snaps out after his friend is sent to hospital by a new drug, so the pharmaceutical company tries to kill him.
** OR: Rich drunk assaults the disabled.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/IronSky]]'': Nazis from the dark side of the moon invade America in 2018 with space zeppelins and flying saucers. Their superweapon runs off of an [=iPad=].
* ''[[spoiler:Film/IT2017]]'': A surprisingly heartwarming film about how a clown helps a group of kids overcome their fears and realize the power of friendship.
** ''[[spoiler:Film/ITChapterTwo]]'': A surprisingly heartwarming film about how a clown helps the now grown up kids cope with the difficulties of life.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheItalianJob2003]]'': A group of thieves and a professional lockpick go on a revenge quest against a former friend.
* ''[[spoiler: Film/ItsAWonderfulLife]]'': A man attempts suicide at Christmastime but is instead temporarily transported to [[CrapsackWorld a messed-up version of his hometown]].
** Alternatively: A man whose business is failing meets a dead geezer and hallucinates his way to happiness.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/ItFollows]]'': An {{Aesop}} about [=STD=]s involving an invisible EldritchAbomination.
* ''[[spoiler: Film/ItHappenedOneNight]]'': A dotty rich girl flees her overbearing father and goes on a road trip with a drunk newspaperman. The two gripe at each other a lot. It's a romantic comedy.
* [[spoiler:Film/ItsABoyGirlThing]]: Geeky girl and JerkJock switch bodies. HilarityEnsues.
* ''[[spoiler: Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld]]'': A car accident causes a national park to increase its number of visitors.
** Or: People look for money independent of each other, causing incidents along the way.
* ''[[spoiler: Film/IWalkedWithAZombie]]'': A nurse is summoned to a Caribbean island to attempt curing a woman of zombie-ism.