Sentences with phrase «action buddy comedy»

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Sin - Dee and Alexandra's last, quiet scene together, in a laundromat not far from the same Donut Time franchise where they began their action - packed Christmas Eve, succeeds at once as a new kind of female buddy comedy and as a rueful reflection on the meaning of coming home — by whatever definition you choose to understand that word — for the holidays.

The rare buddy - cop action - comedy to feature female leads (you'll likely have to thank Bridesmaids, which Feig also directed, for that), The Heat stars Sandra Bullock as a no - nonsense FBI agent and Melissa McCarthy as her industry - standard «loose cannon» partner.

Opening this weekend, buddy - cop action - comedy The Other Guys stars a pair of actors caught in a mid-career slump.

The Rock and Kevin Hart are joining forces with «Central Intelligence», a buddy action / comedy from the director of «We're the Milers».

Director Adam McKay made his disgust with the industry responsible for the 2008 financial crisis crystal clear in The Other Guys, a buddy action comedy that ended with a number of charts and figures bemoaning bankers» reckless, largely unregulated, entirely self - serving practices,

Bullock and McCarthy were well cast alongside each other in the daring first female cop buddy action crime comedy.

Murphy had scored a big hit just a few months earlier in his film debut, the buddy cop action / comedy 48 Hrs.

Keanu is funny and fresh, if slightly formulaic, buddy action comedy.

The film is a buddy action comedy in the vein of «The In - Laws» and «Midnight Run,» with a splash of 1930s movie slapstick.

Continuing with the formula they've established of taking typically male - dominated genres (raunch comedy, buddy action movie) and inserting a dominance of women into the primary characters, this one sees McCarthy take on the role of Susan Cooper, a well - trained CIA agent who has spent her time in the agency as the desk - bound partner in the earpiece of well - groomed field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law).

In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.

Central Intelligence review: Kevin Hart once again buddies up for more action comedy.

«It will be a busy weekend at the multiplex, as moviegoers will also flock to «Central Intelligence,» a buddy action comedy that will appeal to fans of Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart.»

The buddy action comedy isn't always tried and true, and we've already seen a plethora of them this year including Hart's Ride Along 2, Keanu, and The Nice Guys.

The action comedy Let's Be Cops is the ultimate buddy cop movies, except for the fact that they're not actually cops.

What looks like a rather standard buddy action comedy is elevated by a smarter - than - normal script, skilful direction and surprisingly offhanded chemistry between Washington and Wahlberg.

The Trust looks like it will fall somewhere in the middle but all I am expecting from it is a fun little buddy action comedy.

The brisk comedy of the Hollywood section, helped along by John Goodman and Alan Arkin as the buddy - team responsible for making the ruse seem legit, evaporates once the action shifts to Iran and Affleck starts to ratchet up the suspense.

The movie: Channeling the best elements of every buddy cop movie and crafting something wholly unique, Shane Black's action comedy noir is simply one of the funniest flicks of recent years.

Here's yet another buddy comedy / action flick where two cops with some sort of barrier join forces and save the day.

Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson, stars of the New Line buddy action comedy «Central Intelligence,» are among a precious few in Hollywood who have emerged as box office draws in the past five years.

And thank goodness, because this is a fine addition to his mismatched buddy action comedy canon.

From the era and «buddy comedy» guise, I originally expected to enjoy it for its non-stop over the top action or silly gags, but this film really shines through the interactions between its characters and the performances.

In the late 80s, Shane Black's Lethal Weapon script became a touchstone for saleable, hard - boiled, odd - couple buddy pics, movies that combined action, comedy and wise - assed verbal vulgarity in varying measures.

If you've seen This Is the End on VOD or DVD and felt like you didn't get enough Seth Rogen / James Franco fun, Netflix have made available Pineapple Express, a stoner / buddy / action - comedy about a drug dealer and a process server who go on the run after one witnesses a murder involving corrupt cops and the head of a narcotics empire.

Joining Ottman on the score is rising action composer David Buckley («Jason Bourne»), together forming an action - comedy buddy - cop band that spins out spot - on spy jazz grooves, club funk and wah - wah guitar jams with a propulsive orchestra, along with a dramatic slice of film noir moodiness.

The film is also, more subversively, both sendup and tribute to the 1980s buddy action comedy.

The trailers we've seen thus far from RED director Robert Schwentke «buddy» action comedy R.I.P.D., (based on the Dark Horse graphic novel series by Peter M. Lenkov).

The bar has been set with buddy flicks that mix comedy and action... Lethal Weapon and 48 Hours.

Dax Shepard writes, directs and stars in this buddy cop action comedy based on the»70s T.V. show, co-starring Michael Peña as Ponch.

There is as much bad as there is good in The Hitman's Bodyguard, the latest in the recent slew of buddy action - comedies that have been barreling down the pike.

A gritty, cynical, hilarious, and mostly satisfying bit of L.A. noir, Shane Black's The Nice Guys sees the bad boy writer - director make a slick return to his signature brand of buddy action comedy.

When it comes to buddy / action comedies, director and screenwriter Shane Black knows what he's doing.

Blu - ray Review by Kam Williams Unlikely - Buddies Action Comedy Available on Home Video World - class bodyguard Michael Bryce's (Ryan Reynolds) services were in great demand when a Japanese tycoon (Tsuwayuki Saotome) was executed on his watch.

Writer / director Edgar Wright, co - writer / star Simon Pegg, and star Nick Frost reunited again in 2007 on the action comedy Hot Fuzz, this time working within the buddy cop format and again turning out something wholly unique and wildly entertaining.

Revisit these classic buddy - comedy films and be amazed at what action franchises were once like.

The stars of the action - packed, buddy comedy have just as much chemistry off - set as they do in the film, laughing and finishing each other's sentences throughout the presser.

Cassius and Clay is an action - buddy comedy set in the post-apocalyptic American South in a town called Wilke, and follows two female bandits.

He made a name for himself as the top billing in the Spike Lee romantic drama Jungle Fever and then the buddy basketball comedy White Men Can't Jump before fully settling into his destiny as an action lead.

Rad Rodgers» story is reminiscent in concept to a videogaming equivalent to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy film Last Action Hero as it revolves around young gamer Rad waking up after a marathon night of gaming to find that his retro console has turned itself on, producing a vortex that places Rad as the star of his own videogame with the retro console providing support in a buddy duo team - up scenario as they attempt to save the inhabitants of a jungle and return the Elder Tree as guardian of theaction comedy film Last Action Hero as it revolves around young gamer Rad waking up after a marathon night of gaming to find that his retro console has turned itself on, producing a vortex that places Rad as the star of his own videogame with the retro console providing support in a buddy duo team - up scenario as they attempt to save the inhabitants of a jungle and return the Elder Tree as guardian of theAction Hero as it revolves around young gamer Rad waking up after a marathon night of gaming to find that his retro console has turned itself on, producing a vortex that places Rad as the star of his own videogame with the retro console providing support in a buddy duo team - up scenario as they attempt to save the inhabitants of a jungle and return the Elder Tree as guardian of the land.