Sentences with phrase «absurd premise»

The National Secular Society's statement that «the Law Society has created an assumption, whether it intended to or not, that Sharia law is a credible and respectable legal discipline» is absurd and departs from absurd premises.

Loctite Super Glue's commercial was a more absurd premise, but it was just as memorable: Super glue isn't exactly a flashy, hip product, so why not just own it, and make the ad just people dancing awkwardly in fanny packs?

Built around intentionally terrible controls with an equally absurd premise, Octodad packs plenty of funny punch and a surprising amount of heart.

Clever, often hilarious, inside - Hollywood farce that makes the most of... a delightfully absurd premise.

There's an element of «seeing it to believe it» built into the presentation: Expectations based on the history of a mostly direct - to - video franchise, an aging action - hero cast, and a patently absurd premise so conspicuously contradict the art - house sensibility of the film itself that you can hardly blame the first wave of audiences for feeling wowed by the shock.

«It's an absurd premise that they're making,» Cuomo told Brian Lehrer on WNYC.

«That is a blatantly contemptible and absurd premise.

The government's new Psychoactive Substances Act starts from the absurd premise that anything which «is capable of producing a psychoactive effect» will henceforth be banned.

That is an absurd premise.

It's really just a sad circus parade of random, Jim Carrey-esque comic bits, clinging to the frayed and absurd premise that simply showing penguins being penguins is enough to sustain a feature film.

Whether it was because of cable repeats, my parents» taste, the irresistible charms of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, the (endearingly) absurd premise, or some combination of all of it, it's one that we held in high regard and would often quote.

Writer - director David Ayer takes a serious approach to an absurd premise, while the actors inject sparks of bitter humour...

Absurd premise, yes.

But it kind of redeems itself by the end with a series of twists and turns fitting of the absurd premise.

Critics Consensus: Keanu's absurd premise and compulsively watchable starring duo add up to an agreeably fast - paced comedy that hits more than enough targets to make up for the misses.

Critic Consensus: Keanu's absurd premise and compulsively watchable starring duo add up to an agreeably fast - paced comedy that hits more than enough targets to make up for the misses.

«The FP» gets off to a great start, mainly due to the actors» commitment to playing the absurd premise totally straight, but the Trost brothers are unable to sustain the joke for the length of an entire movie.

As in The Lobster — which posited that single people must marry within a prescribed span of time or be turned into an animal of their choosing — the absurd premise at its center is never explained or questioned.

It's an absurd premise, but we'd expect no less from the director of Dogtooth.

But in this — his first film — he proves that he isn't afraid to embrace an absurd premise.

Everyone involved knows and embraces the show's absurd premise.

At least one of the lowbrow bits does provide some amusement and none of them undermines the heart and moral the movie tries its best to make genuine alongside the absurd premise.

Once you get over the absurd premise and the initially unlikable main character, it gets clever and fun.

It's hardly a deep shooter where grizzled veterans will gather to test their mettle, but it is stupidly good fun, clearly relishing it's absurd premise and vibrant colors.

They packed in about 20 plus weird looking levels, a bunch of historical figures as enemies, and an absurd premise involving Sisyphus to create a game that's bold, original, and downright crazy.

While the games have always had their fair share of issues, the absurd premise managed to keep players entertained through several sequels.

It's been over four years now and Eidos has given the series another chance, this time with a fairly strange and absurd premise that desperately screams out for gamers» attentions.

When, in fact, the problem is the absurd premise that our economy can produce ever more with ever less.