Sentences with phrase «absurd comedy»

Had the writing - directing team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore done these interviews beforehand (and really listened and understood what these women were saying) the movie had the potential for being about something real, rooting even absurd comedy in something recognizable.

The tone is rather uneven and can prove to be a hindrance, with the first half more dramatic and the second half more absurd comedy.

A delicious combination of idiosyncratic character drama and increasingly violent and violently absurd comedy, this Netflix title opened the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year and is an assured debut for Blair, the star of Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room.

Smith's tone shifts wildly from absurd comedy to real terror, but given the film's insane premise, the approach works because nothing is ever what you expect.

Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, and David Wain — a.k.a. the brilliantly absurd comedy group known as Stella — reunited for a new video short at San Francisco's Sketchfest in January, and now Wain has graciously uploaded the clip online so the rest of us can enjoy it.

However, if you're a fan of British absurd comedy such as Brass Eye or Look Around You, then you'll feel right at home.

The two reunite with Wet Hot American Summer co - writer / director David Wain in this hilariously absurd comedy that's actually about romantic comedies.

Director Adam McKay is typically associated with uproarious absurd comedies like ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY, STEP BROTHERS and TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY.

Moments of visual flair and absurd comedy get lost amid characters and story points that go nowhere

The manically absurd comedy that Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon made the most of on Reno 911!

Much culture - clash absurd comedy ensues, some of it outrageously black, not to mention crazy.

PB: I wanted there to be a balance between the more absurd comedy — which is something that I absolutely love — and trying to justify you actually giving a shit about these characters.

If sitting down to enjoy an absurd comedy helps you bond with your spouse, that's time well invested.

Brave New Jersey is an absurd comedy about the reaction to the War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

It doesn't feel wrong for good reason, as with much of Todd Solondz's work, yet isn't comical enough to be classed as an absurd comedy.

While actors Tuppence Middleton (Imitation Game) and Douglas Booth (Noah) provide more nuanced and intriguing performances as two of the three Abrasax siblings, Redmayne's Balem Abrasax is so over-the-top with his effeminate mannerisms and Bane - style whisper voice that Jupiter Ascending devolves into a absurd comedy whenever he is onscreen.

While there are too many carefully constructed moments in this film, it's a remarkably effective mixture of dark drama and absurd comedy.

I can't stop freaking laughing at the absurd comedy in this hilarious film.

It starts off as an absurd comedy about Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), a wannabe musician who puts the rest of his life on hold to play in an indie rock band.

Even so, the film could have made a workable film out of this, but the absurd comedy keeps clashing with the soul - searching depression of the angst - ridden Cusack and the film seems to remain in neutral for the duration.

Take Hot Rod (please), which makes the biggest error a random, moronic, absurd comedy can make by trying too hard to be random, moronic, and absurd.

«Fist Fight:» Teachers smoke meth and attack their students with fire axes in this absurd comedy that is grounded in nothing resembling reality.

This is one of Preston Sturges» best - known absurd comedies, and he has quite an impressive string of absurd comedies, so that's saying a lot.

«Frustrating and tone - deaf, the movie remembers the L.A. riots as an absurd comedy» — Radheyan Simonpillai, NOW Magazine

What Capcom guessed is an absurd comedy dressed as an adventure game.

It's often dark, absurd comedy, so it may not be for everyone, however.

Its graphics are on par with the TV show, and delivers the same witty and absurd comedy.