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Jacques Clouseau - 'The Pink Panther' - Steve Martin plays the inept French policeman in the reboot. 

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Ace Ventura - 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' - Jim Carrey plays a fumbling detective who specializes in animal crimes.

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Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne - 'Dumb and Dumber' - In the first film, two unintelligent but well-meaning friends, played by actors Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, set out on a cross-country trip to Aspen, Colorado, to return a briefcase full of money to its owner.

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Elle Woods - 'Legally Blonde' - Between disarray and futility, the sorority girl is accepted into Harvard Law in an attempt to impress her ex-boyfriend but ends up stealing the spotlight by actually solving a crime.

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Borat Sagdiyev - 'Borat' - The famous Kazakh reporter travels to the United States to make a documentary about the habits of Americans.

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The brune - 'Aladdin' - The hyperactive and dramatic character was originally voiced by the actor Robin Williams.

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Willy Wonka - 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' - Willy Wonka is the eccentric owner of a chocolate factory who refuses to see the world through the perspective of an adult.

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Steve Stifler - 'American Pie' - The American teenager loves to throw crazy parties until his mother starts having an affair with one of his friends and his nightmare begins.

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Professor Sherman Klump - 'The Nutty Professor' - Eddie Murphy plays a morbidly obese university professor, who is frequently made fun of because of his weight. The research scientist develops a miraculous, but experimental, weight-loss pharmaceutical and tests it on himself. The result is Muddy Love, Klump's vigorous, charismatic, but evil alter ego.

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Shrek and Donkey - 'Shrek' - The ogre Shrek and his donkey are inseparable and hilarious friends, each in his own way.

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Mr. Bean - 'Mr. Bean's Holiday' - Mr. Bean wins the first prize in a raffle: a holiday involving a train journey to Cannes, a video camera, 200€, and numerous mishaps.

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Alan - 'The Hangover' - Alan Garner is a weird, clumsy, childish guy with no friends. And so he tries at all costs to join his brother-in-law's circle.

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Derek Zoolander - 'Zoolander' - Derek Zoolander is an egocentric supermodel who's going through a crisis for having lost the number-one spot to his rival Hansel.

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Doutor Brown - 'Back to the Future' - The character played by actor Christopher Lloyd is a somewhat crazy scientist who invented a time-traveling machine, the DeLorean.

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Frank Drebin - 'The ***** Gun' - Actor Leslie Nielsen portrays a clumsy detective who has garnered lots of fans worldwide.

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Ferris Bueller - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' - The high-school slacker excels at making excuses to miss class. One day, he fakes sickness to stay home before graduation and confusion ensues.

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Oda Mae Brown - 'Ghost' - Whoopi Goldberg played the role of Oda Mae Brown, a woman who presents herself as a psychic, despite never having communicated with the dead. After 'meeting' Sam Wheat, she discovers that she really does have the power to communicate with the dead. The character earned Goldberg an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

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Albert - 'Hitch' - Albert Brennaman is a clumsy and shy accountant who falls in love with socialite Allegra Cole. In an attempt to win her over, he hires the services of Alex Hitchens, a professional dating consultant.

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Greg Focker - 'Meet the Parents' - Everything goes wrong for the groom Greg Focker, played by Ben Stiller. The more he seeks to get out of the mess he got into with the bride's family, the clumsier he gets.

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Norbit - 'Norbit' - He grew up in an orphanage and had a tough childhood, but the situation gets even worse after marrying Rasputia. However, everything can change when his childhood sweetheart returns to town.

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Captain Jack Sparrow - 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - The character, immortalized by Johnny Depp, was successful thanks to his irreverence, strange appearance, and his funny tricks.

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Tenente Harris - 'Police Academy' - When the chief of police comes up with the plan to force all new cadets to quit rather than being thrown out, Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris makes his job to make the cadets' lives miserable.

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Don Logan - 'S*** Beast' -

Ben Kingsley plays a tongue-in-cheek gangster in this English comedy.

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Deloris Van Cartier - 'Sister Act' - The character played by Whoopi Goldberg a is a lounge singer who witnesses a mob crime while performing at an American nightclub. She then stops at a convent and disguises herself as Sister Mary Clarence, which gets her in a lot of trouble.

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The Mask - 'The Mask' - One of the most eccentric characters on the big screen, the Mask is the result of bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss being transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.

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Schmidt and Jenko - '21 Jump Street' -

The two police officers are forced to relive high school when they are assigned to go undercover as students to prevent a possible outbreak of a new synthetic substance.

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