Sentences with phrase «actual joke in the movie»

Rushmore may have shades of J.D. Salinger's writing and Hal Ashby's movies, but Wes Anderson pulls humor from the trickiest of situations (the only actual jokes in the movie are bad ones, and in context, they are really funny) and always manages to surprise.

This is an actual joke in the movie (stated once and shown another time), which regularly engages in a brand of absurdity that combines the ridiculous and the grotesque at various levels.

(Yes, this is an actual joke in the movie.)

Not exact matches

Herzfeld, whose career somehow lived to fight another day after his 1983 debut feature, «Two of a Kind» — a spectacular Hollywood turkey that imagined John Travolta and Olivia Newton - John as a failed inventor and bank teller chosen by the angels to restore God's faith in mankind — is a master of unintentional kitsch, and most of his latest plays out like a Mel Brooks or Zucker Brothers parody movie minus the actual jokes.

As to whether the movie plays said respective shticks off each other well, that's another matter — as is the Lonely Island — alum filmmaker's inability to meld his weirdo absurdism with a corporate blockbuster's framework, and the lazy overreliance on creative obscenities in lieu of actual jokes.

With the exception of the «one butt» joke, I think every gag from the trailers plays out slightly differently, and more amusingly, in the actual movie.