Sentences with phrase «as pratfalling»

James Cameron could happily present a gang of wanna - be nuclear bombers as pratfalling jokers, bungling their way through a suicide mission like Allah's own Keystone Kops.

But based on how they proceed to behave, it seems that all they've been missing out on is the sort if formulaic slapstick and sophomoric behavior one might find in a typical teensploit, such as pratfalls, preening, potty humor, skinny dipping, ogling women, boozing it up, and participating in gay panic homophobia.

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Alain E. Kaloyeros resigned as president of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute on Tuesday, marking not only the fall of one of the state's most powerful and best - paid employees, but also a very public pratfall for a university system that has been a ready lever of power for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

The comedy is as you have come to expect from Lester with these films, both silly pratfalls wise and the various subtle little dubbed gags.

As in the first «Sherlock Holmes» movie, there are plenty of pratfalls and bare - knuckle brawls but no sleuthing for us to share.

But they put romance on the back burner while focusing on race and ethnicity as Leonardo bonds with his fellow Mexicans on a pool - building job, even as they initially mock his smooth «lady hands» and allow him to pratfall through his first day.

Chevy Chase returns as dimwitted dad Clark W. Griswold in a pratfall - down funny romp bouncing from the casino to a Hoover Dam tour to Vegas shows and more.

As Bruce Granit, Karl is far less gracefully antic in taking a pratfall than Kline, but he puts those aforementioned biceps to very comic good use.

Naturally it will all resolve itself in a flurry of tears, hugs and revelations — perhaps an attempt, as disingenuous as it is unsuccessful, to reinstate the sweet, reconciliatory spirit of Beatrix Potter after an hour - and - a-half's worth of «Looney Tunes» - style pratfalls and incongruous pop songs.

The interconnectedness of all things and the nature of destiny are tough pitches for comedy — philosophy and pratfalls often don't mix especially well — but as Jeff deals with his odyssey for wood glue and Sharon is confronted by a secret admirer and Pat discovers Linda has things she wants too, the movie becomes a philosophical comedy.

His ability to use slapstick while keeping a straight face is impressive, engaging in pratfalls without them coming across as desperate attempts to create laughs when none can be found.

Yes, this movie is just as silly as it looks, with Jim Carrey pratfalling all over the screen alongside a bunch of adorable (sometimes animated) critters.

by Walter Chaw Although it closes with thirty minutes of pratfalls and screaming, Big Fat Liar begins its life as a fun revenge fantasy that makes the interesting choice of never being about greed, but rather truth.

Playing a near - sighted klutz who refuses to wear her glasses (because she fears no man will find her attractive with them), Monroe allows herself to take a few pratfalls, showing her as relatable and sympathetic.

Hold on to your granny pants and brace yourselves: a third Bridget Jones movie is in development, and it looks as though Renee Zellweger will return to the role of the desperate 30 - something as she continues to pratfall her way through life.

It's amazing how the Duplass brothers think that pratfalls are appropriate in a comedy as «realistic» and occasionally dark as Table 19, but they're seemingly as essential element to the film's laughs.

Completely overrun by pratfalls, slapstick, and mean - spiritedness, Christmas with the Kranks never even comes close to being a satire on the falseness of the spirit of Christmas, especially when it tries to be all warm and fuzzy as it nears the end.

Despite all my aforementioned praising of this show, it exhibits the same pratfalls that many TV shows have with displaying women as «objects of male desire» as Laura Mulvey described in her famous essay «Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.»

Since none of the children exhibits a whit of charisma, the only thing that makes the movie even slightly bearable is Lewis Black's game performance as the exasperated Mr. Porter, a role which called for a combination of pratfalls, popping his cork and wide - eyed reaction shots.

Wiig's first starring vehicle, «Bridesmaids,» is a made - to - order showcase: It features her as sympathetic leading lady, insecure Fey - like nut job, and, best of all, a talented farceur whose elastic face and ever more elastic body bring to mind no less a pratfall genius than Lucille Ball.

It's so apparent, this Freudian subtext, and yet so wasted on pratfalls and John going from normal to crazy as soon as the script requires him to.

But while Saulnier has scored grim chuckles from the hapless maneuvers of amateur law - breakers, Blair — who also wrote the screenplay — cranks the dumbfuck - pratfall levels to wacky extremes: Lynskey, recognizably human in a role that puts her expert comedic timing to good use, is quickly surrounded by a rogues» gallery of cartoons, including Elijah Wood, channeling Dwight Schrute as an oddball Christian neighbor turned sidekick.

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There are no pratfalls or nudges in the ribs as the movie presents in - jokes.

Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes «to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man.»

This certainly isn't a valid reason to plop down $ 60 for the privilege of experiencing its unbelievable pratfalls, but as someone who has adored the series for over twenty years, Final Fantasy XV represents a chaotic struggle between ambition and pragmatism.

Hanging opposite the elevators on the new Whitney's fifth floor, as a kind of preamble to «Frank Stella: A Retrospective,» are Pratfall (1974), a precise arrangement of 12 concentric squares in contrapuntal grays that sucks the viewer into its black core; six untitled photographs, from the late 1980s, of curling smoke that looks like jellyfish, or ink dispersing in water; and Earthquake in Chile (1999), a 40 - foot - long, turgid mess of a painting.