Sentences with phrase «as buddy comedies»

Instead, «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» is surprisingly insightful, as buddy comedies go, and it has a good heart and a lovable hero.

As far as buddy comedy pairings go, few can match the unlikeliness of that in «Hunt for the Wilderpeople.»

The combined efforts of this fine ensemble cast make Tower Heist go down easier than it otherwise might, but the film's potential as a buddy comedy is sadly wasted.

As a buddy comedy it is undernourished, making only feeble efforts to draw out the humour of the situation and allowing the characters to flounder as vague sketches of classically comic opposites — Alvin, somewhat repressed and uptight; Lance, libidinous and irresponsible.

As a buddy comedy, this falls flat.

the two men don't play well enough as a buddy comedy team to make you want to see more of this pairing in the future.

Ishtar begins harmlessly enough as a buddy comedy about two middle - aged New Yorkers down on their luck.

Not exact matches

A fairly interminable teen comedy, American Pie follows four high school buddies (Jason Biggs» Jim, Chris Klein's Oz, Thomas Ian Nicholas» Kevin, and Eddie Kaye Thomas» Finch) as they vow to lose their respective virginities by prom night - with the film detailing the foursome's expectedly flamboyant and over-the-top efforts at accomplishing this feat.

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.

Blue collar comedy rules the roost with this hilarious farce starring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and D.J. Qualls as buddies who are mistaken for Army Reservists and sent to the Middle East - but when they are accidentally dropped into Mexico, they misread the situation and set about trying to «liberate» a besieged village from a demented drug lord.

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.

The Heat plays with clichés from a long line of mismatched buddy cop comedies, and it's as good as any in the genre's pantheon.

But Coco certainly stands out in the sea of talking animal buddy comedies / rescue adventures that most major studio animated features can be categorized as.

An amusing supporting role as a myopic ballplayer in the William Bendix comedy Kill the Umpire (1950) led to D'Andrea being cast as Bendix's buddy Gillis on the TV sitcom The Life of Riley in 1953.

Comedian Bob Saget stars in this heartfelt comedy series as Danny Tanner, the widowed father of three young and rambunctious girls: 9 - month - old Michelle, 5 - year - old Stephanie and 10 - year - old D.J. Danny recruits his two buddies.

You may have seen unlikely interracial and cross-generational buddy comedies before, but nothing as hip and engaging as this goofy comedy of errors.

As a result the second banana of this service comedy, the affable Harold Ramis, becomes its genuine dramatic center: his struggles to keep his buddy Bill in line have a strange urgency and poignance.

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Sundance describes it as a «delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film.»

He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy - comedy The Good Guys, as Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.

Universal Pictures has released a new poster for Seth McFarlane's upcoming comedy sequel Ted 2, which sees the foul - mouthed bear joined by his thunder buddy John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg)... SEE ALSO: Watch the red band trailer for Ted 2 here Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and co-star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights -LSB-...]

Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of the long - running police reality series COPS, in what is being described as «an edgy narrative with a buddy comedy bent on the order of a Lethal Weapon.»

«Pitch Perfect 3» fares best when its director, Trish Sie, treats it as a fantastical buddy comedy.

The Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart (a top repeat offender in this annual survey) buddy comedy is described as «a near two - hour gay panic joke that relies on the long - running homophobic «sissy» stereotype for most of the lm's intended punchlines.»

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).

Though advertised as a buddy cop comedy, The Guard is more like straight crime drama with a fair amount of colorful levity.

«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 high - profile buddy - cop comedy pushed Tatum even more into the mainstream, and gave him his third Number One movie as a leading man.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, TBS is developing a new comedy series from Michael Ian Black called Moon Cruise, with his The State and Wet Hot American Summer buddies Michael Showalter and David Wain on board as producers — along with Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp's Jonathan Stern, a veteran of Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital and NTSF: SD: SUV.

I still haven't really seen anything from the pic that makes it stand out as anything other than a pretty standard buddy cop comedy, but Johnson and Wayans Jr. are very funny guys who have terrific chemistry on New Girl, so hopefully that charisma makes the full feature worthwhile.

To put it another way, it's Office Space meets Apatovian buddy comedy, minus the dark stuff and the sweet bits but with more consistent laughs as a result.

Grown Ups (previously known as The Lake House) is an upcoming comedy that re-unites Adam Sandler with SNL buddies David Spade, Chris Rock and Rob Schneider (not that he and Schneider have been apart for very long).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, TBS is developing a new comedy series from Michael Ian Black called Moon Cruise, with his The State and Wet Hot American Summer buddies Michael Showalter and David Wain on board as producers — along with Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp's Jonathan Stern, a veteran of Adult...

As director, the elder Reitman last tasted success on 2011's Natalie Portman / Ashton Kutcher sex buddy comedy No Strings Attached, which made a good amount of money despite being pretty terrible.

David Gordon Green's «Prince Avalanche» is a wayward buddy comedy starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two highway road workers.

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.

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.

While far from perfect and falling into the expected predictable and trite storyline we've seen before in dozens of other buddy cop movies, «Ride Along 2» certainly works as a broad comedy.

A poignant meditation on art as well as a delightful female buddy comedy with sublime performances by its three female leads.

It also manages to hit the bull's eye as a splatter horror film, an ode to Romero, a buddy picture, and an authentic romantic comedy.

It's got some classic comic moments, but I don't think the drag comedy is as funny to my generation, one that grew up with Tom Hanks an Peter Scolari in Bosom Buddies.

Gary's boastful intention to «get annihilated» suddenly takes on a whole new meaning, as this reunion buddy comedy heads into Invasion of the Body Snatchers territory.

Played as a confusing mish - mash of buddy comedy and family drama, it does a good job of fine - tuning the formula.

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.

This reteams Franco with his comedy buddy, Danny McBride, as a member of the Covenant crew, which also consists of Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice, Jobs, The Babysitters), Demian Bichir, Alex England (Gods of Egypt), Billy Crudup, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die, «The Killing»), Jussie Smollett («Empire»), Carmen Ejogo, and Callie Hernandez (Machete Kills).

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang works as a buddy cop picture, a noir, and a straight - up comedy.

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.

This buddy movie / cop comedy takes its cue from such police - dog stories as «Turner and Hooch» — which it directly references — as well as the 1990 TV pilot «Poochinski,» in which the ghost of a murdered detective ends up inhabiting a gassy English bulldog.

«Romy and Michele's High School Reunion» — a frothy comedy with the most adorable buddies since Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — is as much about clothes as it is about the anxiety of seeing former classmates again.

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