Sentences with phrase «as joke characters»

Two of the three aforementioned characters are already fan favorites despite their status as joke characters, and I expect the Wii Fit Trainer to join them shortly thanks to her array of quirky yet powerful moves.

Someone on my wave in regards to adding Magikarp to the roster if only as a joke character!

Be it as a joke character (the Smash version of Dan Hibiki) or as someone who uses sports equipment as his means of attack (given how he basically only shows up in sports titles), people want Waluigi, plain and simple.

Not exact matches

In today's high court appeal judgement, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mr Justice Owen and Mr Justice Griffith Williams said: «If the person or persons who receive or read it, brush it aside as a silly joke, or a joke in bad taste, or empty bombastic or ridiculous banter, then it would be a contradiction in terms to describe it as a message of a menacing character.»

Many of the xtranormal videos that have caught on with a big audience have followed a similar formula as this one: the jokes that work tend to be those whose humor relies on repetition and deadpan delivery, since characters say the same lines exactly the same way every time.

(It is joked by singers that Wagner's character of Siegfried in Der Ring des Nibelungen ought to have been called Sahgfried, as his name is sometimes pronounced that way by sopranos looking to get the most volume out of their voices.)

At best, it delivers clever cheap jokes for its juvenile characters and leaves them as supposedly lovable troublemakers.

Evidently as a private joke, Sturges nearly always cast Meyer as a character named Schultz, with such conspicuous exceptions as «Dr. Kluck» in The Palm Beach Story (1942).

This is a lame joke by anyone's standards, but coming from one of the greatest silent comedians (still recognisable as the little tramp, even though he is playing a different character) makes it sound even worse than it really is.

Despite the lessening of madcap energy, Shrek the Third is still quite funny in parts, with some fresh throwaway gags to produce chuckles now and then from characters you'd think they probably should have jettisoned long ago, but are secretly glad they've kept around (the Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, etc.) The fact that they are keeping in nearly all of the characters introduced in the series thus far is a bit of a double - edged sword, as they do provide a certain respite from the main characters that are already cycling through the same jokes all over again, but on the other hand, it's getting to the point that the high overhead of injecting scenes for all of these characters takes away from the focus of the story at large.

American Wedding feels a bit too much like the closing chapter in a series, where the ideas (if bodily function jokes can be called ideas) are starting to wear out and the characters may have gone as far as they can possibly go.

Game Night's characters aren't exactly complex, and some of them — such as the husband - and - wife duo played by Lamorne Morris and Kylie Bunbury — are wasted in one - joke subplots.

I lost track of which characters were with which side, and the movie even tries to make the same joke, as if knowingly acknowledging this aspect forgives Free Fire for its plotting misfires.

Finding a curse closer to home would have also saved the characters an absurd six - hour round trip whenever they decide to go back to the site and gather more clues: as it is, the repeated shots of their car approaching the Mexican border soon start to feel like a running joke.

The character, his dialogue, quips and in - jokes are as funny and bloody - bad - taste as before, creating goodwill and feeling of warmth for a character who is anything but.

«Baywatch» was a regular movie, where his return was not so triumphant, the performances were regular, the plot a bit absurd, and it causes me more stupor that Zac Efron continues to star in comedy movies with rude jokes, but what saves are Cameos of the old characters, but by God, as Pam

«Baywatch» was a regular movie, where his return was not so triumphant, the performances were regular, the plot a bit absurd, and it causes me more stupor that Zac Efron continues to star in comedy movies with rude jokes, but what saves are Cameos of the old characters, but by God, as Pam Anderson ruined, and more than invited her to that movie, it's a damn roll.

The new episodes don't represent another radical leap forward in style or quality the way season two was, but whatever's lost from the shock of the new (nothing here is quite as weird or surprising as the cavewoman prologue or «International Assassin,» though a joke in the second episode and a party sequence in the fifth come close) is gained in how much more we know all the characters at this point, and how aware they are of their proximity to their story's end.

It feels like a slapdash collection of scenes rather than a balloon sent smoothly aloft, with jokes often falling as flat as Cena's buzz cut (a running gag centers on his tough - guy character's propensity for crying, a go - to bit that ages fast).

The jokes, like the action sequences, are both tired and recycled, and of all the tedious dialogue, it is left to Andre Braugher to deliver the silliest line as his character, the multi-star general, says upon learning what the Silver Surfer is capable of, «He must be destroyed.»

Cracking jokes, gamely putting on a pirate costume and even doing shots of whiskey on stage, Heughan seemed far from the shackles of his character but just as appealing to fans.

Unlike most dumb comedies, Apatow has great affection for his characters, and we like them because he enjoys showcasing them, taking great care in developing them as more than just joke fodder.

Likewise, the current popularity of the superhero genre allows Birdman to be all the more relevant as social commentary - and allows it to land its punches with greater precision (see: the joke about Keaton's character refusing to do Birdman 4).

As the main character, she really saved those flicks from the worst jokes.

Not only did the film make all kinds of»80s jokes and references, but John Cusack's character existed as something of a throwback to the many famous roles he had in that aforementioned decade (Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Say Anything, et cetera).

Whacky supporting characters (Will Ferrell as Cubby, the local mortician and / or pornographer; the aforementioned deputies and Lucinda) can spark a joke here and there, but the story is weak and not worthy of the supersize popcorn.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

In the hands of Hangover trilogy director Phillips, War Dogs annoys in a variety of ways: its halfhearted critique and sympathetic embrace of machismo and whatever - it - takes business savvy (the women in the story, uniformly P.Y.T.s, serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall - to - wall use of overplayed source music (a Warner Bros. hallmark these days), and frequently sitcomedic joke constructions (Albania is «a beautiful place,» Cooper's character promises; cut to blue - grey blight).

Seeing as this is one of the only major elements of the film given to Adam Pally, his character feels like he is almost only in the film for this one joke.

Such dull reinventions are typical of this one - joke fiasco, which boasts plastic - y characters and environments that look direct - to - video cheap, as well as musical numbers that prove as half - baked as the story's plotting.

As well as being a laugh out loud slapstick comedy rendered in gorgeous Lego visuals and crammed with DC Easter eggs and visual jokes, The Lego Batman Movie is one of the best character studies of the Dark Knight out therAs well as being a laugh out loud slapstick comedy rendered in gorgeous Lego visuals and crammed with DC Easter eggs and visual jokes, The Lego Batman Movie is one of the best character studies of the Dark Knight out theras being a laugh out loud slapstick comedy rendered in gorgeous Lego visuals and crammed with DC Easter eggs and visual jokes, The Lego Batman Movie is one of the best character studies of the Dark Knight out there.

My Prediction: As much as I hate to think it, My Big Fat Greek Wedding will probably win, despite being based on a one - woman show, lacking properly developed characters and jokes, and other major problemAs much as I hate to think it, My Big Fat Greek Wedding will probably win, despite being based on a one - woman show, lacking properly developed characters and jokes, and other major problemas I hate to think it, My Big Fat Greek Wedding will probably win, despite being based on a one - woman show, lacking properly developed characters and jokes, and other major problems.

When the part is played as a joke, Foxx is fine as Stacks, but he seems distant as the character's affection for his ward grows (It's a little strange that Annie's connection to Stacks» driver, played by Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje, feels more genuine).

Emily Mortimer is also effective as the nervous secretary with some surprisingly good jokes to her character's name.

Douglas herself provides a link to the old world the film idealizes: her grandfather Melvyn, in a different Lubitsch film, told Greta Garbo an even better joke than the one from Cluny Brown that serves as a key line for Owen Wilson's character.

Cougar Town goes for the same jokes that Scrubs goes for, giving us in - your - face jokes, amusing characters, but usually hitting us with some real emotion as the episode draws to a close.

After all, who better to call out Deadpool's dodgy jokes than a strong female character who can give as good as she gets?

Holofcener spins unsparing jokes out of these characters» respective obsessions with being seen as attractive and good - hearted.

Unfortunately but not unexpectedly, be it the because the characters are less likeable, the jokes not as well written, or simply because the very idea of a The Hangover Part II is just so implausible, this darker, dirtier, nastier follow up, although still generally funny, does not hold a candle to its predecessor.

As a result, the characters in this movie drag themselves through a slough of crude and sexual jokes.

It could have played its central character, a single and socially awkward woman in her 60s with a bad habit of hoarding, as a joke.

While in the final cut this scene was drastically reduced to mere seconds as part of a montage (which just worked in benefit of Ferrell's character), it was a great way of realizing about the amount of improvisation that was going on in the set, as the cast and the director changed lines, added jokes (there was one involving Steve Irwin) and even visual gags (i.e. Ferrell imitating the manta rays).

After some fun banter with the entire panel — Hemsworth joked about the new sex - change of his character being his chance at an Oscar, Elizabeth Olsen says she's been practicing staring at pencils for months willing them to move, and Robert Downey Jr. asks that she soon release him from the spell she cast on hims as «it burns» — we finally get a trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron.

If only the low - aiming script by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, X-Men 3), rumored to have undergone several rewrites at the hands of others, saw their characters as living, breathing human beings instead of mere comedic devices in the singular big joke the film is built on, and perhaps we would have seen even more fireworks in the romance department.

In The Raven, he almost comes across as a cartoon character rather than a real person with real problems — it almost makes a joke of the actual person.

Green, making a name for himself as the go - to man for pot and phunny movies -LRB-» The Pineapple Express»,» Your Highness»), spends more time tweaking the cocaine gags and splicing in sex jokes than he does fleshing any of the characters out or even attempting to get the audience to side or relate to a couple.

A few stock characters, including a park superintendent, are predictably over-the-top, but there are corny and even laugh - out - loud clever car and plane - name references, as well as a few inside jokes and good one - liners.

Alyson Hannigan as Stripper Lily in How I Met Your Mother A running joke in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother is that each of the main characters has a mysterious doppelganger.

Ryan Reynolds» character makes the same joke in the sequel as he returns to the similarly vacant School for Gifted Youngsters... with a twist: Unbeknowst to the loud - mouthed superhero, the annoyed X-Men do briefly appear on - screen before Beast hastily closes the room's doors to avoid further interruption.

Both films cradle the richest poetry of a longing glance or a well - told joke, with the camera itself acting as a kind of spiritual guide, closing in around the characters and placing them in new and revealing positions.