Sentences with phrase «as a sidekick who»

Interminably earnest and dull scenes featuring the morose Yoakam jar against the over-the-top eccentricities that sometimes appear in the same scene, such as a sidekick who likes wearing dresses to the ridiculous sight of Thornton himself turning in a cameo in a long blond wig.

Not exact matches

In fact, the film entirely misses the comical quality of Samwise Gamgee, the deferential and half - literate peasant who serves as Frodo's bumbling sidekick.

A pioneer of talk radio, McIntyre and his faithful sidekick, «Amen Charlie,» became familiar voices to thousands of listeners across America as the «P.T. Barnum of American Fundamentalism»» blasting everything and everyone who wiggled even slightly to the left.

He appeared in two Austin Powers films as Mini-Me, the clone and sidekick of the villain Dr Evil who was played by Mike Myers.

Even though he's hoofing the same animal - sidekick territory here as he did in Mulan, Murphy dominates the dialogue, portraying a donkey who's as motormouthed as he's supposed to be stubborn, the perfect foil to Myers» anti-social, Scots - accented Shrek (quite why Myers insists on repeatedly foisting this fake - Caledonian twang on us is a mystery, but, what the hell, it works well enough).

Brandis followed up with starring roles as a ringer for a girls» soccer team in Ladybugs (1992) and a weakling who lives his dream of practicing martial arts with Chuck Norris in Sidekicks (1993).

As with all classic animated fairy tales, the leading man hooks up with a sidekick who keeps him on the path and bucks him up when shrek happens.

Stiller is reprising his role as clueless male model Derek Zoolander, who in the film has a penchant for selfie sticks, and Wilson returns as his fellow model and sidekick Hansel as they attempt to put an end to a plot to assassinate the world's most beautiful people.

Jimmi Simpson, who plays Liam McPoyle on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (among a host of other wonderfully creepy roles), has reportedly joined the cast as one of Lincoln's sidekicks.

Silver lining: Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander, whose plucky German car mechanic Gaby Teller joins Furiosa and Ilsa Faust, if to a lesser degree, as heroines in action franchises this year who don't exist simply to operate as eye - candy sidekicks to their male co-stars.

Luke Evans (The Girl on the Train), as Gaston, is blustery enough to play the narcissistic villain, but it's his sidekick LeFou, played by Josh Gad (The Wedding Ringer), who is the real attraction of the duo, comically obsequious but not entirely a fool.

And where Rupert Everett was divine as a sidekick, McConaughey is mortally ordinary as a main dish who spends most of his time smiling like a party guest.

What makes Afro Samurai so amusing as a game is the voice acting by none other than Samuel L. Jackson who plays Ninja Ninja, our heroes sidekick.

Of course the story is told in broad strokes as Steele bumps into leggy Agent 3.14 (Nicollette Sheridan), an agency director who loves disguises (Charles Durning) and assorted sidekicks.

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

We learned last year that Johnny Depp would play his sidekick Tonto in the film, but we had not had an official announcement as to who might play the Ranger himself.

His mid-film encounter with a deranged dinosaur who's collecting a retinue of totemized sidekicks (birds and small mammals) he's assigned symbolic power speaks to the film's general conversation around myth as a means to contain chaos.

His talented supporting cast includes Simon Pegg who offers comic relief, periodically, as his bumbling, new sidekick, Benji Dunn.

Fassbender plays the titular Frank, with Gyllenhaal as sidekick Clara, and Gleeson as lead Jon, an aspiring musician who joins Frank's band.

Todd is being described as being a «compassionate, sweet, smarter - than - average man with biting wit» who definitely doesn't consider himself just a sidekick to Gently but rather thinks that he is «just flat out better than Dirk at a lot of things.»

Joining Bruce Wayne / Batman as headliners are butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes — a perfect voice casting choice), a young orphan who eventually becomes sidekick Robin (voiced by Michael Cera), Gotham City's new police commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson), and, leading a crew of villains that includes just about every bad guy and gal in the DC Universe, The Joker.

People who manage to see it as some sidekick like Four Swords was might have their fun though.

Simultaneously, he uses his actors either imagistically or metatextually: the three leads embody their respective roles — hero, girlfriend, sidekick — almost deliberately as archetypes, while Fishburne trades on the gravitas of his past performances to offer a clear - eyed, authoritative counterpart who, perhaps not unlike Morpheus in «The Matrix,» challenges their naive ideas about the world around them.

Character LeFou, played by Josh Gad, is the sidekick to the story's villain Gaston and «is confused about his sexuality», according to director Bill Condon, who also described a brief scene as a «gay moment».

Evans is extremely well cast as the self - regarding braggart Gaston, and he and Josh Gad (who plays his adoring sidekick, LeFou) make a winning comic double act.

The movie marks the promising directorial debut of Beantown native Ben Affleck who cast his baby - faced brother Casey in the lead role of Patrick Kenzie and doe - eyed Michelle Monaghan as the private eye's sidekick / girlfriend, Angie Gennaro.

The hilarious 2003 cult comedy BAD SANTA saw Billy Bob Thornton as a Grinch - like department store Santa Claus, who alongside his dwarf sidekick (Tony Cox), used their position to rob the store of its expensive contents and annual takings.

However, while Harris makes for an appropriately smart and menacing adversary, the loss of Rachel McAdams (only briefly seen this time) as Holmes's romantic foil proves to be a more sizeable step backward; while she was not the most comfortable fit in the first film, her chemistry with Downey was promising — which becomes all too painfully clear when neither Downey nor Jude Law (as trusty sidekick Dr. Watson) show much rapport at all with her ostensible replacement, Noomi Rapace as a gypsy who (platonically) joins the duo's mission.

In addition, Tonto isn't so much a loyal sidekick as he is a grief - stricken comic - relief figure who is deeply skeptical of the abilities of the city - slicker Reid, whom he considers a «half - wit.»

Can't be Jason Statham in the lead, though, he's actually pretty badass, even though he's doing a poor man's Aragorn... Likewise, John Rhys - Davies is clearly cashing a paycheck by playing a watered down Gimli with a touch of Gandalf, but he's okay... Leelee Sobieski and Claire Forlani suck for sure, but at least they're easy on the eyes... Ron Pearlman is wasted in the nothing role of a sidekick who buys it halfway through, but he does what he can with what little he's got to work with... On paper, the idea of Burt Reynolds as the King is priceless, but he's not hilariously bad, he just looks bored and vaguely annoyed throughout...

In particular there is a graceful sequence, wittily scored to piece of classical music where Carter discovers his gravity defying jumping abilities and any film with an adorably ugly monster / puppy sidekick who follows Carter everywhere or the simply adorable Collins as the Princess of Mars is not completely without merit.

The previously announced recurring cast members include: Christian Slater as Elliot Decker, the school crossing guard and self - proclaimed «Safety Czar» of Jefferson G. County, who has made it his mission to protect the world from Milo; Vanessa Williams as Zack's mom Eileen Underwood; Sarah Chalke as science teacher Miss Murawski; Jemaine Clement as Dr. Zone, a popular television show character who travels through time with his trusty sidekick Time Ape; Chrissie Fit as Amanda Lopez, an overachieving perfectionist in Milo's class; Vincent Martella as Bradley Nicholson, Milo's envious and pessimistic classmate; Diedrich Bader as Milo's dad Martin Murphy; Pamela Adlon as Milo's mom Brigette Murphy; Kate Micucci as Milo's sister Sara Murphy; Mackenzie Phillips as Principal Elizabeth Milder; Dee Bradley Baker as Milo's dog Diogee; Brett Dalton as high - level time travel agent Brick; Gregory Michael Cipes as classmate Mort Schaeffer; Sophie Winkleman as Dr. Zone's sidekick Time Ape; Michael Culross as high school teacher Kyle Drako; and Kevin Michael Richardson as Coach Nolan Mitchell.

British funny lady Miranda Hart is a true find for anyone who hasn't seen «Call the Midwife» on PBS as Cooper's well - meaning if clumsy sidekick Nancy who fills in as her earpiece.

(For those who recall Depp in Jim Jarmusch's 1995 neo-Western Dead Man, this is essentially a role reversal, with him taking on the Gary Farmer part as a deadpan Native American sidekick to a clueless white man.)

Tim Key is a standout as Alan's radio sidekick, and Monica Dolan, who plays Alan's office booty call, makes every scene with Coogan deliciously irksome.

It's also a movie unusually rich in excellent supporting characters, including Chris Messina as Joe's punchy Florida sidekick Dion, Chris Cooper as the pragmatic, world - weary local police chief, and a translucent Elle Fanning as the chief's daughter Loretta, who drags herself out of heroin addiction to become a beacon of proselytising Christian righteousness.

Meredith is the brainy sidekick who doubles as the love interest, but as stated earlier, her blossoming relationship with Tripp never really clicks.

Hugh Keays - Byrne, who also starred in the original Mad Max, is brilliantly grotesque and terrifying as the villain Immortan Joe with sidekick Nathan Jones, aka strongman competitor Megaman, on hand as the muscular brute Rictus Erectus.

Add to the weirdness an underused bitch - goddess villain, Foxy Loxy (Amy Sedaris), who's transformed into a Southern Belle by the alien's obliterating death ray, as well as a sidekick pig, Runt (Steve Zahn), who speaks in Air Supply lyrics, is inspired by an invocation of Gloria Gaynor's fag anthem «I Will Survive,» is caught in the act of Spice Girls and Captain and Tennille karaoke, and is threatened with a grounding from his Streisand records for his bad behaviour.

Doing his best impression of a classic character actor in the Gabby Hayes mold, a scraggly - bearded Bill Pullman stars as the title character, a lifelong Old West sidekick who finds himself on his own after his legendary compadre (Peter Fonda) is killed by cattle rustlers.

The finished product stars Cress Williams (*) as Black Lightning, and shares some trappings with the other Berlanti shows: a large family presence (including Christine Adams as ex-wife Lynn, and Nafessa Williams and China Anne McClain as daughters Anissa and Jennifer), a cop (Damon Gupton's Inspector Henderson) who's not sure what to make of this superpowered vigilante, a trusty tech support sidekick (James Remar as Peter Gambi, who in the comics is a tailor specializing in making costumes for supervillains), and an archnemesis (Marvin Jones III — aka rapper Krondon — as vicious gangster Tobias Whale).

So the film's greater pleasures seep in around the edges of the plot: the gradual revelation of why Scudder quit the police force, the strong supporting performances (notably by Ólafur Darri Ólafson as the caretaker of a graveyard) and the relationship between Scudder and T.J., a savvy but homeless black teenager who becomes his sidekick.

As things would have it, the three of them and their two new acquaintances — the melting Ethan (Dee - Jay Daniels) and Magenta (Kelly Vitz), who can transform into a guinea pig — are all deemed sidekicks by the tough - talking Coach Boomer (Bruce Campbell).

We begin with a more or less contemporary author (Tom Wilkinson), looking back on his visit to the G.B.H., then flash back some decades to the «60s, where that writer as a younger man (Jude Law) talks to the hotel's owner (F. Murray Abraham), who in turns tells a story from 1932, involving the legendary concierge Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his sidekick «lobby boy» Zero (Tony Revolori).

Excerpted as a flashback in the actual film, it's fun to see in full (who doesn't want to watch Dave Foley functioning as costumed sidekick?)

Eventually, they get to the Front — where the film introduces Eugene Brave Rock as the last throwaway sidekick, an American Indian who's a black market profiteer selling to both sides, even though the Germans are really, really, really, really bad guys in Wonder Woman.

There's a bevy of supporting characters — John Goodman's goateed mobster and Pruitt Taylor Vince as a cop sidekick — who don't have any real weight.

Not only do we get the always enjoyably oily Malcolm McDowell as a vaguely Trump - ish autocrat who runs the race; Manu Bennett as a stoic yet dryly funny bad - ass hero; Marci Miller as his plucky sidekick (of sorts); Folake Olowofoyeku as a maniacal rock star who mows down on her owns fans; Anessa Ramsey as an insane evangelist who does the same to her own flock; Burt Grinstead (wonderfully manic) as a genetically enhanced, sexually confused, super-muscular man - child; and veteran character actor Yancy Butler as the furious leader of several ill - fated race protesters.

I actually think it could have been a fairly decent movie if they'd gotten Seth Rogen to NOT play the hero as an egotistical jackass who was jealous of his sidekick.

Sebastian Stan, who plays Captain America's sidekick - turned - adversary Bucky, spoke to We Got This Covered and gave his thoughts on whether or not he wants to see his character take up the patriotic mantle, as he did in the comics.