Sentences with phrase «amusing scenes as»

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Some scenes are amusing as stand - alone vignettes, but they have tissue - thin connections to the rest of the movie.

Due to a high - energy pace (with several scenes set to a catchy soundtrack) and a humorous tale of average people getting in over their heads with the law, I, Tonya plays as an amusing blend of Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers, keeping the audience engaged throughout its brisk 2 - hour runtime.

Julian Sands, who is so often cast in heavy - handed roles, is afforded here a very amusing role as a dopey new age masseur who is in the office from scene to scene massaging the toes, ears, scalps and shoulders of whoever will stay still for long enough.

Here, we get a few more amusing scenes involving the shenanigans — or, as is apparently, according to the movie itself, preferred in Canada, chicanery — of the gang of misfit highway patrol officers.

As for me, I found most of the sex and spurned - lover scenes involving a slightly less ugly version of the possessed doll from The Conjuring amusing (though I do hope the doll is supposed to be «of age»), but it's a mostly tedious experience when the doll's not on the screen.

Scenes of Segel on the job as a TV show composer are more distracting than amusing, and a strange choice considering the character himself is supposed to be lazy and unambitious.

Crystal's one - scene cameo as a fairy inventor provides the film's only remotely amusing moments, and merely exists to highlight how fucking awful the rest of the movie is.

On the rare occasions that the pirates are left to be the scurvy dogs they are, the movie finds its humor (the brethren court scene is funny as it turns into an all - out brawl and punctuated by a unfortunately forgettable cameo by Keith Richards, Depp's inspiration for the role of Sparrow), but otherwise, two seamen (Lee Arenberg and Mackenzie Cook) who have traveled the whole of this voyage provide amusing asides to the proceedings while a monkey steals every scene it's in.

Her insertion into the scene proved simultaneously an amusing foil for the authorities currently working the case — mostly for Denis Leary as a abrasive but ultimately lonely detective heading up the investigation — as well as a worthy adversary of sorts for the brilliantly evasive Thomas Crown.

Adopting a priceless voice, Cage amuses with his sledgehammer subtlety in his few scenes as a shaggy, scarred alcoholic.

Fassbender even tries to get McAvoy to break character when he's doing a rather serious scene, and the latter doesn't look like he's amused as he could be.

The movie gets off to a somewhat sluggish start, at a party scene that's overstuffed with arch dialogue and almost as many pop - culture allusions as a Seth MacFarlane show, but the underlying humanism in Baumbach's worldview ultimately wins out, and we actually come to care about this quippy group of chums and their endlessly referential, often very amusing conversations.

That scene simply played too dark and left the film on a strange note, as opposed to the final post credits sequence which still involves a dark act but in a much more amusing light.

Funny thing is, I actually prefer the scenes that don't deal with the contrived and mostly unfunny plot, so I'm willing to allow some indulgences, as they provide the only amusing moments of this otherwise throwaway film.

A Bad Moms Christmas doesn't really have a plot as much as a collection of amusing scenes that take place during the week leading up to Christmas.

Coming in at a close tie for second are the amusing round of golf filmed between Tom Felton, Grint, and the Weasley twins (James Phelps and Oliver Phelps) as they discuss having spent the last decade together and the friendship that's formed out of it and the look at Radcliffe's septuplet special effects scene (from the opening of the film).

Eight amusing Deleted / Alternate Scenes (11:30, SD) with optional commentary by Favreau are a nice bonus, as is the film's «Theatrical Trailer» (2:30, HD)..

Some of the jokes are just plain unsettling (there's a running joke about «child molesterers» — not a typo — that comes across as more unpleasant than amusing), but for every awkward and squirmy wisecrack there's a comedy goldmine (the cameo by Waititi as a local preacher is one of the funniest scenes in years).

For every moment that feels authentic, like an amusing scene of late - night IKEA furniture assembly frustration, there are two that feel contrived, many of them involving Celeste's work with a gay boss (Elijah Wood) and a pop starlet (Emma Roberts) who's not as shallow as she seems.

Apatow, who deserves to be regarded as the preeminent figure in American comedy right now, has shown an uncanny knack for fostering bright young comic talent, and because he loves comics so much and is so fascinated by their process — the way John Cassavetes loved Method actors and their process — his productions tend to brim with scene - stealing supporting players, amusing non sequiturs, and running times (124 minutes in the case of The Five - Year Engagement) that few comedies in the history of moving pictures have shouldered without eventually buckling under.

However, watching it for the first time as an adult, I found it to be just a mildly amusing during most scenes, with the occasional moment of true inspiration.

Aardman Studios keep their trademark look, even as they venture further into solely CGI creations, and while they're not quite up to Pixar levels in terms of finesse, they surpass in terms of details, with almost every scene having something amusing going on in the background.

The pleasant but uninteresting Claire gets a lot of screen time as the straight person to Michelle, which only emphasizes the lack of comic chemistry between Bell and McCarthy, except for an amusing bra - fitting scene.

The behind - the - scenes documentary is, as with all making - of specials on theatrical releases that air on HBO, a 20 - minute exercise in promotional hype, but the talking head interview segments make this this one is more amusing than most.

Henry himself has an amusing cameo role as a divorce attorney, and a dinner scene efficiently shows Porter's increasing awkwardness with the life he feels trapped in.

But their push - pull dynamic is not so much combative as complementary, wryly amused, and we see even in this early scene, shot in nervy, watchful long takes, how each man stirs and intrigues the other, challenges his assumptions and defenses.

Lasting for approximately 135 days, the project has now developed to include Michał dressing as a LEGO man, and photographing himself in various scenes with amusing results.

He was also a lover of, landscape painting, producing a series of atmospheric mountain and coastal scenes, together with several examples of portrait art, including his amusing Self - Portrait (1939, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art), which shows the aged, shy artist as a young, bleached - blond, gay sailor - type with tattoos and a stud earring.