10 Most Hilarious Movie Plot Twists You Didn't Expect to Laugh Out Loud At

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for every single movie it features.

10. The Police in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

What’s the best way to finish a surreal, bizarre, and low-budget adventure other than to take its absurdism to the next and final level? After an hour and a half of watching King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table try to find the Holy Grail, the last thing you expect is for modern-day police to show up and arrest them all!

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9. The Fembot in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Fans often call directors out for contradicting their own movies’ lore and continuity. But if they don’t care, neither should you! In the second Austin Powers movie, it turns out that Vanessa has been Dr. Evil’s murderous spy fembot this entire time. Does it make sense? No. Does it make Austin Powers a free bachelor in a fun way? Yes!

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8. The Killer in Scary Movie (2000)

Parody movies are popular, but few of them succeed. This doesn’t apply to Scary Movie, though: the ultimate horror parody knows exactly what it’s doing. The last person you’d expect to have been the insane murderer this entire time is Doofy, the intellectually disabled fellow who — surprise, surprise — has been faking it all along.

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7. The Scheme in Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

Playing up the stakes and then suddenly bringing characters and viewers down to earth with a mundane revelation is a beautiful technique, and The Pussycats does it brilliantly. Who would have guessed that the insidious subliminal message plot was just to make people think that an insecure CEO is a cool person, and nothing else?..

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6. The Dance in Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

You’ve just watched a family struggle for many hours to get their young daughter, Little Miss Sunshine, to the dance festival where she’s supposed to perform her dance. It has to be cute, right? Wrong: the girl’s dance turns out to be a wildly inappropriate burlesque, and the entire family joining her makes it even worse!

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5. The Masheen in Idiocracy (2006)

Every unfortunate time-travel story ends with the protagonists making it back to their time, doesn’t it? That’s what the travelers in Idiocracy think, too. Having spent forever to finally locate the “Time Masheen” in the dystopian future they ended up in, they learn that the “Masheen” is just a carnival ride and they’re stuck there forever.

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4. The Roof in The Hangover (2009)

The entire plot of The Hangover revolves around the unfortunate groom’s best men trying to find him before the wedding and getting into an unholy amount of trouble for that. As it turns out in the end, when they’ve given up on the search, the poor groom was stuck on the roof of their hotel, and everything they went through was in vain.

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3. The Mandarin in Iron Man 3 (2013)

Tony Stark is back at it again, fighting villains and terrorists — but there’s a catch. Having spent a ton of money and resources to track down the mysterious Mandarin, the head of a terrorist organization, Stark finds out that the poor guy is just a hired actor who had no idea that he’s been working for terrorists and is utterly useless.

You can watch Iron Man 3 on Disney Plus.

2. The Victory in The World's End (2013)

Want to talk about bittersweet victories? In The World’s End, the entire android plot turns out to be part of a much larger plot. The main characters still prevail, of course; and unfortunately, their victory is somewhat ruined by the fact that all electronic devices on Earth are now non-functional, bringing humanity into the Stone Age.

You can watch The World's End on Apple TV and Prime Video.

1. The Accident in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

A bunch of rich kids become characters of a classic whodunit as their party in an isolated mansion is ruined by the mansion owner’s murder. Everyone grows paranoid, and some folks kill over folks in panic, and things are looking grim as no one can find the real murderer… Except there was no real murderer: the first death was just an accident, and the consequent murders were very much unnecessary.

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