10 Best Jason Sudeikis Movies, According To IMDb

Jason Sudeikis is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, but he has also starred and appeared in several hilarious films from We’re the Millers to the hilarious Booksmart. Sudeikis has mostly done comedic live-action films, but he’s delved into the drama genre and voiceover work as well.

Sudeikis tends to reprise roles in franchise films like The Angry Birds and Horrible Bosses that have multiple films in the series. Here are Jason Sudeikis’s top-rated films, so far, according to IMDb ratings.

10 The Angry Birds Movie (2016) – 6.3

Jason Sudeikis voices the angry bird of the neighborhood, Red, in this animated film based on the characters of the app game of the same name. After an angry outburst, Red is sent to anger management classes where he meets new friends Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride). They all have to team up and become unlikely heroes against the birds’ new enemies the pigs, led by Leonard (Bill Hader).

9 Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) – 6.3

This sequel to the successful Horrible Bosses follows the same three main characters (Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day) from the first film in a new wacky adventure as they try to start their own company so they can be their own bosses. They need more finances to keep their company running and come up with the plan to leverage a wealthy investor (Christoph Waltz) to pay a ransom by kidnapping his son (Chris Pine).

8 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019) – 6.4

This Angry Birds sequel follows Red (Sudeikis reprising his role) and his friends in their new lives as heroes in the town of birds. The three heroes are consulted when their enemies, the pigs, ask for a truce so they can work together against a common threat to both of their homes and communities.

The former enemies have to get along and fight against a group of birds who plan to cover the whole world in ice.

7 Sleeping with Other People (2015) – 6.5

Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis star in this somewhat raunchy rom-com as two quirky and strong personalities who each have their own personal relationship issues they’re trying to work through. They reconnect after meeting in college and become inseparably close without beginning to date even though everyone in their lives thinks they’d be perfect together. It’s a fun film that balances its more dramatic scenes and its comedy well.

6 Next Gen (2018) – 6.6

John Krasinski and Constance Wu lend their voices to the starring roles of this Netflix film as a young and rebellious girl and a rogue robot respectively. The two team up when they realize that the CEO of a popular robotics corporation (voiced by Jason Sudeikis) has devious plans for the new line of robots being released to the public. The unlikely pair work together to stop the villainous plan in the stylish animated film.

5 Kodachrome (2017) – 6.8

Jason Sudeikis stars in this Netflix film about a father (Ed Harris) trying to reconnect with his son (Sudeikis) after he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. His dying wish is for his son to join him on a road trip from New York to Kansas accompanied by his nurse (Elizabeth Olsen) to develop his final Kodachrome film from his photojournalism days.

4 Horrible Bosses (2011) – 6.9

Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis star in this wacky film about three equally disgruntled employees who hate their bosses for different reasons. The three slowly decide that they need to get the most drastic revenge by killing each other’s bosses and start to put their sloppy plan into action with disastrous yet hilarious results.

3 We’re the Millers (2013) – 7.0

Jason Sudeikis stars in this quirky film as a drug dealer who is in debt to his supplier and has to quickly make amends by going to Mexico to pick up a shipment. He decides that it would be less suspicious to go undercover and hires a fake family including Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, and Will Poulter to pose as his unassuming family.

The film follows the four wacky characters who try to act as a perfect family and the weird people they run into on their trip down to Mexico.

2 Race (2016) – 7.1

Race is based on the true story of Jesse Owens (portrayed by Stephen James) who became a prominent track and field star in the 1930s. Owens faces constant racism in the United States and chooses to compete in the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to let his athleticism speak for itself against the racism he faces both at home and abroad while in Nazi territory. Jason Sudeikis portrays Owens’ coach throughout the film.

1 Booksmart (2019) – 7.2

Booksmart is a fresh and new coming of age movie about two young high school seniors (Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever) who realize that they’ve wasted their years focusing on studying when they could have gotten into good colleges and had fun partying. The two decide to spend one of their last nights together before college going out to every graduation party they can find. It’s a film that balances its serious and hilarious moments well and Jason Sudeikis has a small role in the film.

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