Film choice

(500) Days of Summer (2009) COMEDY CENTRAL, 9.00PM ★★★★

 “This is the story of boy meets girl,” says the wry narrator of this refreshingly original romcom, starring the appealing Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-levitt. Tom is a foolish romantic who works at a greetings card company. Summer is his insouciant co-worker with whom he falls in love. What follows is clever, droll and only slightly cloying.

The Hangover (2009) ITV2, 9.00PM ★★★

 Proof that really dumb comedies never go out fashion comes with this tale of a four-man stag trip to Las Vegas, which results in a hangover so potent that none of the remaining stags can remember how or when they came to lose the groom. There’s no explanation either for why the most cautious of their number, Stu (Ed Helms), has lost a tooth and married a hooker. The gags come thick and fast.

Crocodile Dundee (1986) SKY1, 9.00PM ★★★★

 Mick “Crocodile” Dundee (Paul Hogan), a bushman from northern Australia, is a dab hand at surviving in the Outback. But when he is invited to New York City by Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), a high-class reporter, in this Oscar-nominated comedy drama, he finds life far tougher in the urban jungle. He’s a survivor though: muggers who accost Dundee discover that he has a bigger knife than they do.