Sentences with phrase «as sight gags»

As sight gags go, it's weak.

«Isle of Dogs» treats this as a sight gag.

So vital to the finale, while being used as a sight gag, also builds anticipation.

Not exact matches

To be dwarfed by an even larger adversary served as a punchline to the sight gag of a group of hyper - masculine men.

Early Man, which goes out in the UK through Studiocanal on January 26 and Lionsgate in the US on Feburary 16 — the same team as Shaun The Sheep Movie, which grossed $ 106m worldwide in 2015 — scores highly on amiable charm, sight gags and open goal word play; however, it lacks the nifty footwork and originality of the best Aardman pictures.

Often reviled in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless from those who applauded the ambitions of his sight gags, his subversions of standard comedic patterns, and his films» acute criticisms of American values.

An ungainly collection of one - liners and misdirected sight gags that hardly qualifies as a movie.

As a vaguely plotless collection of sight and sound gags and Jim Carrey riffs, the film uses its best stuff.

No one believes Eric when he says he's seen a «monkey,» even as slapstick disasters begin to threaten the hotel's ranking — as you might imagine, a series of loud nothings erupts around badly - timed sight gags and head - slapper slapstick.

As a comedy, it might make you smirk or lightly chuckle on a couple of occasions, mostly due to a few low - scale, size - related sight gags, but it's doubtful you'll be quoting the film for any hilarious one - liners once you leave the theater.

As throughout his oeuvre, Kaurismäki utilizes sight gags as a source of comedy, though a few of the punchlines here are curiously tone deaAs throughout his oeuvre, Kaurismäki utilizes sight gags as a source of comedy, though a few of the punchlines here are curiously tone deaas a source of comedy, though a few of the punchlines here are curiously tone deaf.

Add gorgeous watercolor backgrounds and no shortage of sight gags and you have a film that has as much zest today as it did when it was first made.

Scott's comic energy helps keep the film rolling, and the gangly DJ Qualls gamely serves as a walking sight gag (sexually paired, in longstanding comic tradition, with his opposite: in this case, an obese black woman).

When you cut down Cars as to why it worked, it wasn't for the technical stuff, or the predictable plot, but because we enjoyed the characters the depiction of small town America represented by Radiator Springs, and some clever sight gags and jokey allusions to the world of automobiles themselves.

This being a comedic spin, the movie, with Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum 2, Cheaper By the Dozen 2) directing with the blandness that has come to be his stock in trade, includes a «hilarious» pot - smoking scene, repeated sight gags centered on Fonda's enormous breasts, her grandkid's morning poop sessions and a last - minute gay twist that feels as contrived as the rest of Jonathan Tropper's script (based on his best - selling novel).

As in Planet Terror, Rodriguez emphasizes style over substance, but the sheer audacity of his vision — the energy, the inventiveness, the extremes to which he's willing to take his gruesome sight gags — is his salvation.

Some of the throwaway lines are rather funny, as are several of the sight gags, such as a recurring bit in which the Duke keeps accidentally killing his wife's dog, then replacing it with one that looks nothing like the previous one.

Up until her joining the narrative the film had been funny, if a touch icy, happy to tell a story that shouts from the rafters that our environment is doomed while also making us laugh with visual sight gags such as a miniaturized Laura Dern in a bubble bath.

To give Grimsby credit, for a lowbrow comedy whose jokes are overwhelmingly rooted in gay panic and treating the bodies of larger women as walking sight gags, it's surprisingly good - natured, even sweet at times.

Sacha Baron Cohen is perfect as Ferrell's European foil Jean Girard, and the film is jam - packed with both sight gags (the live cougar in the race car) and brilliant dialogue (the prayer to eight - pound - six - ounce - newborn - infant Jesus).

Being as zany, silly as possible while launching effective sight gags at you full - force throughout the duration.

With most films of this genre, we are given a hollow shell of a plot (Erik tries to lose his virginity, Matt Stifler is forced to spend time at Band Camp), and uses it as an excuse to line up its womanising sight gags and controversial humour.

A.O. Scott of The New York Times is quoted as saying it was, «witless, charmless, and unimaginative» while Richard Roeper said it had a «recycled plot, lame sight gags, [and] leprechaun - like stock characters.»

Instead, the film shifts to a nice but awkward breakfast, filled with sight gags (how the Queen's aids, played by Rebecca Hall and Rafe Spall, set up a place for the giant to eat), uncomfortable pauses, and resolving with an entire room enjoying — and immediately regretting — a drink of BFG's favorite, fizzy beverage (For a hint as to how that decision goes, the carbonated bubbles go downward).

Having served as assistant director to Jacques Tati on Mon Oncle and appeared in Bresson's Pickpocket, Etaix produced a series of comedies that retain Tati's situational humor and sight gags but move away from his Hulot - specific qualities — instead creating more diverse roles for himself, including a Keaton-esque loner, a rags - to - riches clown, and a married businessman smitten with his secretary.

But it got by on sight gags and heart, and a nice dynamic between hotel manager Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) and his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), as she broke with monster tradition to romance a human.

As far as laughs go, the leads receive numerous opportunities to haunt audiences with silly one - liners and funny sight gagAs far as laughs go, the leads receive numerous opportunities to haunt audiences with silly one - liners and funny sight gagas laughs go, the leads receive numerous opportunities to haunt audiences with silly one - liners and funny sight gags.

The jokes themselves aren't always as funny as Tashlin's sight gags, but they follow one from another more organically and Lewis plays them like a sustained series of variations that build to an actual narrative conclusion.

The whole short offers sight gags as Pluto resourcefully aids Mickey's play and then duels with a gopher in a way that would make Carl Spackler proud.

There's lots of good stuff in this one, from the incredible music by Henry Mancini (Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany's), the brilliant job of Peter Sellers as Clouseau, and some well - set up sight gags.

Through this oblique sight gag, Wright evokes the image of Warren Beatty as notorious bank - robber Clyde Barrow, losing a lens in his glasses mere moments before he and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) meet their fate under police gunfire.

There's a gag involving Christopher Meloni soiling himself while wearing a superhero costume that felt so juvenile it belonged in a Seltzer and Friedberg movie as opposed to one with people of this intelligence behind it and a sight gag with a waiter played by Zak Orth having a literal pole up his ass was particularly groan - worthy.

The source of the film's one surefire sight gag, he also provides a deadpan running commentary as a reprogrammed imperial security droid who starts out loyal solely to Cassian but develops a grudging affection for Jyn, too.

In one of many sight gags based on other movies, they lie down and kiss as the surf washes over them, reminiscent of «From Here to Eternity.»

While Scorsese's ending is far from a crowd pleaser, it doesn't quite feel as resonant or interesting, with a final sight gag that will get a few parting snickers, although in reality, it is quite silly.

Atrocities are followed by jokey riffs and sight gags, and what links them is not a creative sensibility (as would be the case in a Quentin Tarantino movie) but a carnival barker's desperate need to hold on to a distracted audience's attention.»

«I Love to Singa» is about stalwart determination, not to mention the simultaneous insanity and importance of artistic pursuit (and Owl returns as a genius sight gag in «Looney Tunes: Back in Action.»)

There are puns and sight gags and juicy dialogue for the ensemble cast (great - particularly Marsan and Considine as the straight guys) to swig at.

Tati's style is already in place, at least visually (fairly long takes chronicling the slow buildups op the sight gags) and in terms of dialogue (there isn't much), but the film doesn't play with sound as much as his later Hulot films do (especially Playtime).

But it features terrific supporting performances as well, especially from male love interests portrayed by Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia and Nelson, who is responsible for the film's Big Talker of a sight gag, when his character runs afoul of a double dose of Viagra.

The film offers a few surprises (as per routine with a Marvel movie, stay for the end credits), a good number of sight gags, and a full - bodied exploration of a fringe player in the comic book domain.

Sometimes, however, his proclivities come at the film's expense, such as his penchant for inserting quippy humor, sarcasm, and sight gags at odd times, which often undercuts the drama or simply smacks of too much effort.

Director Stoller and writers Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien are graduates of the Judd Apatow school of studio humor, and so are well - versed in cooking up a comedy that adheres to a certain recipe: bookending the picture with big set - pieces, and then linking those set - pieces with a series of fast - paced episodes that rely chiefly on sight gags and as many obscenities as possible.

As is the case with so many of Payne's films, the comedy here is mostly observational, with gentle sight gags and inventive camera work and stagecraft drawing viewers almost immediately into an alternate but entirely believable world.

Well, this tale of a boy and his dog — rethought as a dinosaur and his boy — turns out to be a mixed bag, with some dazzlingly near - photo - real landscapes, sight gags that inspire waves of kiddie guffaws, and some impressive character animation sharing time with an overly familiar plot and character types.

Packed to the rafters with densely layered imagery and ingenious Rube Goldbergian sight gags, the film follows a drudge at the Department of Records (Jonathan Pryce) who finds himself fingered as a terrorist after a fatal mix - up at work — a story that eerily anticipates the Orwellian state of the world of today.

Credit where credit is due, Rock of Ages stops just shy of having literal monkey shit flung at its audience; although monkey sight gags are in fact a primary source of the film's humor, should we choose to accept that the innumerable moments in which a trained monkey behaves contrary to that of an untrained monkey qualify as humor.

His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.

Fresh from their time on The LEGO Movie, directors Chris Lord and Phil Miller are as sharp and anarchic as ever, precisely piecing things together before blowing them up — and still finding time to shoehorn in Benny Hill references and endless sight gags, not to mention violent squids.

There are plenty of sight gags, and the usual mirth and mayhem, although they are mild in humor value, as the Ice Age series has run mostly on charm and affability, rather than on catchy zingers and genuine wit.