Sentences with phrase «as a buddy flick»

Unless you enjoy laughing at outdated stereotypes suggesting that blacks are loud, stupid, lazy, smelly, promiscuous and criminal, you might like to pass on this insensitive exercise in bigotry masquerading as a buddy flick.

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The Hangover does come close to some sort of self - awareness, of itself as a trashy buddy flick and of Vegas as simulacrum of excess.

Still, it does present an intriguing possibility: Iron Man 3 as a buddy cop flick starring Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle?

Shane Black's The Nice Guys hits on so many different levels, it certainly won't come as a surprise if we look back at this as the exact moment the buddy cop flick was awakened from its 30 - year slumber.

Other than that, «Bulletproof» is your standard vulgar, mindless, action - buddy flick, albeit with a love story at its center — something that might have marked the movie as a landmark among the kind of fictional relationships that date back to «Huckleberry Finn,» if it weren't trying so hard to deny its identity.

While Melissa McCarthy has undeniably been hilarious in buddy flicks and as part of an ensemble, a la Bridesmaids (2011), The Heat (2013) and Ghostbusters (2016), she remains yet to prove an ability to maintain that level of laughter carrying a star vehicle.

HOT PURSUIT This grueling buddy flick pairs Reese Witherspoon (better than the material) and Sofia Vergara (terrible) as a klutzy cop and a shrill eyewitness, and the result goes well beyond oil and vinegar — it's more like mustard and Frosted Strawberry Pop - Tarts.

He's probably best known for his role in the slasher flick You're Next, but Swanberg's 2013 effort Drinking Buddies earned him plenty of notice as writer / director with a refreshing voice.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Bittersweet Buddy Flick Starring Adam Sandler as Terminally - Ill Comic Arrives on DVD This bittersweet buddy flick revolves around a terminally - ill, middle - aged, Hollywood icon (Adam Sandler) who decides to give an aspiring, young comic (Seth Rogen) the big break he's been waitingFlick Starring Adam Sandler as Terminally - Ill Comic Arrives on DVD This bittersweet buddy flick revolves around a terminally - ill, middle - aged, Hollywood icon (Adam Sandler) who decides to give an aspiring, young comic (Seth Rogen) the big break he's been waitingflick revolves around a terminally - ill, middle - aged, Hollywood icon (Adam Sandler) who decides to give an aspiring, young comic (Seth Rogen) the big break he's been waiting for.