Today is your lucky day, kind readers, because Hecklerspray wants to be your buddies.

Normally, Hecklerspray feels no such brotherly or sisterly love. In fact, normally we hate everyone. We are more than happy to sit in the pub nursing our pints and growling at anyone who so much as breathes in our direction.

That's what saying unpleasant things about people for a living can do to even the kindest souls.

But today is different. Today?we want to give you all a friendly slap on the back and even laugh at your rubbish jokes.

We want to pick you up every time you fall; we want to thank you for being a friend. We know you would do the same for us.

And what has brought this change in us? Well, after watching First Direct staff venturing on to the mean streets of London to give people piggybacks to work, celebrate their birthday and even help them fall in love, we are feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.

These ?buddies? even help a woman change her clothes in the middle of the street. You can check out all the videos of it here. There is also one at the end of this post.

And, well, if they can be bothered to do that, the least we can do is extend the hand of friendship. Oh, and write a list all about the best buddy movies of all time. That's just the way we roll. If you think I am going on to the street and giving some guy a piggyback all the way to King?s Cross, you can forget it.

Anyway, so what is a buddy movie? Well, according to The Complete Film Dictionary, it is ?a film that features the friendship of two males as the major relationship?. I'll be honest, that sounds a bit dodgy. But you get the idea.

But which are the best? Hecklerspray has looked into this scientifically and come up with the definitive answers.

P.S We admit it, cutting this list down to just 12 was really difficult, so we added a few honourable mentions in there for good measure. Sorry Harold and Kumar fans, it didn't make the cut.

12. Wayne?s World

Year: 1992



So good it even made Bohemian Rhapsody listenable again.

11. Superbad

Year: 1997



Superbad not only breathed new life into teen comedies, but was also a fine buddy movie in its own right. As much as I would love to have put a clip of McLovin in, this video just about sums up what we are talking about perfectly.

10. Stir Crazy

Year: 1980



It was a toss up between this and See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Genius.

9. Shawshank Redemption

Year: 1994



This movie even makes our icy hearts melt.

8. Trading Places

Year: 1983



So good even the sight of Dan Aykroyd blacked up is not enough to pt you off.

7. Swingers

Year: 1986



Swingers reminds you what your mates are for ? offering really bad advice on how to pull women.

6. Bad Boys

Year: 1995



Proof, if ever you needed it, that bad boys have more fun. Were we the only ones surprised how good this film was?

5. Cannonball Run

Year: 1981



Who wouldn't want to be friends with a fat guy with a cape?

4. Shaun of the Dead

Year: 2004



Shaun of the Dead breathed new life into a genre that was, errr, dead.

3. Clerks

Year: 1994



They have this totally wrong. Star Wars was so much better than Empire and Jedi. Besides, plumbers deserve everything coming to them.

2. Lethal Weapon

Year: 1987



Back in the days when you wanted Mel Gibson as your friend.

1. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

Year: 1969



One of the greatest movies of all time. Never mind buddy movies.

Honourable mentions:

City Slickers

The Hangover

Withnail and I

The Last Boy Scout

Turner and Hooch

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