Sentences with phrase «bumbling characters»

In the 2006 remake, Steve Martin's bumbling character comes under the care of the unflappable Officer Ponton (Jean Reno).

Reza who is Zoe's significant other is a wet lettuce that resembles the bumbling character that Hugh Grant portrays in each of his films and is yet another forgettable encounter.

Dan Gunn's stand is a nuclear fallout shelter — at least as imagined by New York artist Michael Smith, as «Mike», the naive, bumbling character he invented for his performances.

Not exact matches

So when your would - be boss asks which Game of Thrones character is your favourite, and you've never seen the show, your bumbling self is outta luck, right?

Parker remains a bumbling boy throughout the entirety of «Spider - Man: Homecoming,» and for this reason alone makes the character feel so much more authentically teenaged in a way that his 26 and 28 - year - old Spider - peers never did.

«Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as «Mr. Magoo,» a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling... Trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with Sessions, who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal.

«Phil didn't do something to earthquake - proof the house that he promised he had, and spends most of the episode trying to cover up,» says Burrell, who loves the bumbling but well - intentioned character, which was written with him in mind — something he finds «not particularly flattering, but hilarious.

Freeman does the best he can with his bumbling Bilbo, and I expect his character to grow with his adventures.

This movie was awful and I am offended that they made the Lone Ranger character out to be this buffoon and the Tonto character a bumbling idiot.

Apart from Klaue, the only other prominent white character is veteran CIA secret agent Everett K Ross, played in typically engaging and bumbling fashion by Martin Freeman.

On the way to their final destination, the bumbling threesome run across various colorful characters including a fast - talking one - eyed bible salesman, a black man who just sold his soul to the devil in return for musical talent, a trio of sexy sirens, the KKK and many other quirky members of the Deep South personnel.

Deanna is so irksome that even McCarthy seems to tire of her, and her bumbling, burbling, shy but gregarious persona is often discarded — not as a sign of character development, but because it would get in the way of a gag.

The robbers turned out to be somewhat bumbling, which is how they came to be played by Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, and Owen Wilson in a studio comedy directed by Jared Hess — his first movie to be released in six years, time he presumably spent researching the most comically garish fashions and hairstyles for his hapless characters.

«Originally the Shrek character was a little bit more like Chris, like a humble, bumbling innocent guy,» Chris's brother Kevin Farley recently told Yahoo!

Her character still occasionally bumbles her way through some situations, and there's a section of the film where McCarthy's Susan Cooper has to play up her aggressive side in order to fool a villain into believing she's a hard - edged security professional.

With the exception of a couple of bumbling cops who never see any real action, we realize that in this fictional world, only the four main characters can solve the mess they've created, so suspension of disbelief is warranted to properly enjoy it.

No spoilers here, but it was only after bumbling through the first handful of levels before decisions needed to be made as to the direction my player character would go in.

A heartbreaking coda is earned through sterling character work throughout, with some top comic assists care of Sally Hawkins as the inquisitive Mrs Brown, and Hugh Bonneville as bumbling oaf Mr Brown.

The characters evolve with the uptight Angel loosening up while Butterman becomes more than just a bumbling drunk.

The plot is similar to many films in the past, particularly French comedies with role reversing and bumbling protagonists, but given the nature of the two characters it still works in a fresh way.

In many ways, it recalls the Sparrow character he so brilliantly created for the «Pirates» franchise, from his headscarf to his deadpan reactions to his amusing brand of bumbling competence.

There are bits and bobs that don't measure up — grainy «camera footage», underdeveloped secondary characters — but for a movie equally given to quirks, quacks and quarks, the bumbling never detracts from the charm.

The film centers around Clooney's character, a bumbling...

(I realise I've already used the term «bumbling» in this review, but any character who doesn't have a beard and biceps the size of steel beams is depicted as bumbling — a nuisance obstacle propped in front of necessary gunishment.)

The Cloverfield Paradox is an unholy mess... The characters here never feel like they could exist in a world outside of this space station, all of them barking in tech - speak at each other, rarely acting in what could be classified as recognizably human behavior... As the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in October.

Gervais, on the other hand, reverts to the same bumbling, self - indulgent character he plays in Night at the Museum and Ghost Town.

Also featured in the pictures, Evans as the arrogant poseur love rival Gaston alongside Josh Gad as bumbling assistant Le Fou, plus just a few of the enchanted, servants - turned - into - objects characters that includes Cogsworth, voiced by Ian McKellen, Mrs. Potts (Emma Thompson), Ewan McGregor's Lumiere and Gugu Mbatha - Raw's Plumette.

One of my favorite 2017 films, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, has gained its share of disapproval because it suggests that one character, an unpleasant racist jerk, might possibly bumble his way to becoming a better person instead of simply being punished for his transgressions.

IF THE world of computer feature animation were, say, a couple of characters in a sitcom, Pixar would be the smart, sensitive, well - mannered overachiever and DreamWorks would be the loud, bumbling, insecure, media - addled doofus.

Frost's bumbling yet well - meaning character is responsible for an unmatched percentage of the laughs.

This includes a bespectacled Elijah Wood, channeling Dwight Schrute as the oddball, nunchaku - twirling, churchgoing neighbor who bumbles into her crusade — a character that wouldn't be out of place in a Jared Hess movie.

More than just a bumbling boss, Carell found real depth and heart in Michael Scott that allowed the character to flourish over seven seasons.

The Oscar winning actor is allegedly playing a bumbling British character similar to that played by the late Denholm Elliott in the first -LSB-...]

While the show was darker in tone at first, the Dr. Smith character — played with glee by Jonathan Harris — soon became the comic relief with his bumbling, self - serving, cowardly behavior, spars with the Robot and genuine affection for young Will (Billy Mumy).

It is forty minutes before the characters even get into their first skirmish, the running time made up of bumbling gags.

Though there are some really funny bits thanks to the chemistry between the three leads (as well as a scene - stealing cameo by Kevin Spacey), the characters themselves have been downgraded from bumbling fools to complete idiots.

The supporting characters are also given defining traits, like Sisto's asshole husband, who he plays with a hint of desperation, or Fillion's bumbling doctor, who gradually becomes more charming throughout the course of the film.

He's joined by Cary Grant (voicing the Mock Turtle), Gary Cooper (bumbling through as the White Knight) Edward Everett Horton, Edna May Oliver, Ned Sparks and a roll call of character actors whose faces and voices are more familiar than their names.

All of the secondary characters, the bumbling cops, the warring drug dealers, their families, their rivals, are all broad caricatures played by a very funny cast of character actors.

Waititi strips the character of the Shakespearean seriousness of his previous Marvel - movie appearances (we're a long way from the Kenneth Branagh — directed first Thor), instead imbuing him with the bumbling, mockumentary - style realism Waititi has practiced in his previous movies.

Downey Jr is perfect for the lead role, bringing a deft comic touch to the proceedings and a slightly world - weary air which makes the bumbling Lockhart an enormously appealing character.

The wait is finally over with Bumble - Ardy, a riotous birthday tale that began as a character Sendak first developed in 1971 for an animated short on «Sesame Street.»

Watch them go from a posh lifestyle in London to Clear Creek, a nothing of a town full of quirky characters, crazy livestock, and bumbling villains!

«The Andy Griffith Show» introduced us to colorful characters like bumbling deputy Barney Fife and the good - hearted Gomer Pyle, but most importantly, it showcased everything there is to love about small - town life.

With its messages of tolerance, bumbling wizards inhabiting tumbledown cottages, filled with eclectic and magically misbehaved nick - knacks, and scenic descriptions of swathey Scottish landscapes, it's obvious to any discerning reader that good old Blighty is almost as much a leading character throughout all seven books as Harry himself.

Human: Fall Flat seeks to embody this appeal through puzzle solving with a bumbling, generic character appropriately named Bob.

For many, the charming design and bumbling energy of the Pikmin will make them more lovable than the main character.

Here, our protagonist (not - so - charmingly referred to as «numbskull», for the most part), bumbles about the building unlocking servers and accessing PDA's to provide additional exposition on the events and characters of the Assassin's Creed franchise at large.

These will feature all your favorite characters from our series, the heroic Honeydew and Xephos, the bumbling wizard Fumblemore, the raucous Professor Griswold, the Knight formerly known as Old Peculier, and many more!

The supporting characters — from streetwise amnesiac Loki to the foulmouthed, bumbling Enzo — are a little more tropish, but no less colorful.