Sentences with phrase «as slapstick»

Children's programming is more violent than all other program types, and virtually all superhero cartoons as well as slapstick cartoons contain violence.72 In terms of channels, only 18 percent of PBS programming contains violent content, compared with 84 percent of premium cable shows, such as HBO, 51 percent of broadcast network shows, and 63 percent of basic cable shows.

There's a serious element to it as well as slapstick and farce.»

The film could be seen as a slapstick take on cultural history — both its reliance on stereotypes and its arbitrary nature.

While you are likely familiar with slapstick comedy, this latest from director Antoine Fuqua could be described as slapstick action.

Brooks almost single - handedly revitalized the comedic form known as slapstick, and by the mid-90s, seeing someone falling on their rear - end just didn't pack the same humor punch it once had for him.

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

Marketed as a slapstick comedy for kids!

The episodes in this portrayal may not be as slapstick as some of their previous efforts, but the melancholy is always balanced with moments of sly wit and humor.

In these moments, Blue Streak works both as a satire of action - movie conventions and as a slapstick meditation on the disparity in power between the police and the poor people they protect and serve.

Years down the line, Ex Machina will be looked back on as an engaging and frightening film, or, if the film serves to be as prescient as I think it may be, our future, robotic overlords will see it as a slapstick comedy.

There are so many movies that examine and portray parenting and it often comes across as slapstick.

John Frankenheimer's The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) is quite possibly the least well known of his films and quite probably the biggest misfire of his career: an anti-war film played as a slapstick comedy.

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.

This just uses Derbez as a slapstick prop.

Not exact matches

O'Hara uses both incongruity and slapstick in the above line to help us see the shortness and fragility of life, as well as the absurd things we do and say to avoid being reminded of them.

As they watch Malvolio, the clowns perform a slapstick ballet, popping out regularly from behind the long black tapestries that stand in for scenery, cracking jokes, bickering, threatening, and bundling each other into hiding when they get hotheaded enough to become conspicuous.

Any Premier League season starring Jose Mourinho, Diego Costa and Zlatan in the same locker room would be more entertaining than The Three Stooges — and probably contain twice as much slapstick comedy.

The videos are slapstick mini-masterpieces for softball aficionados, with Butler and Woodward giving famed comedy duos through history a run for their money as a pair of buffoons — Butler the boisterous, over-the-top funny man; Woodward the perfectly droll, hyper - vocal straight man, filling in dead air with improvised lines — desperately trying to get into a bat to juice it up.

April 7: Laugh along as Johnny Peers and more than a dozen dogs stage their hilarious slapstick comedy act (Natick)

Oh, he has it already...» — the story tumbles into slick, slapstick farce as Tory «pitbull» Sir Norman Cavendish (Simon Shepherd) starts sniffing around the home (or is it the second home?)

The fact that the trio of actors are now adults is reinforced as Ron is disguised behind a beard that makes him look like a dashing Musketeer rather than a slapstick fancy dress character.

As the lead actor and director of «City Lights», everything, down to the slapstick comedy, or the quiet and delicate dramatic moments, «City Lights» is a blast.

Weinstein flirts gently with slapstick throughout, such as in Menashe's mishaps with a vanload of gefilte fish, or his failed efforts to bake kugel for the memorial.

The film's bouts of slapstick and sentiment sit slightly oddly with its downbeat tone, but if Wilson isn't entirely consistent as a character, Harrelson is consistently funny — and if anyone can make a sociable misanthrope believable, he can.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

Instead, we get plenty of opportunities for fast - paced slapstick, and Gleeson — a fine actor who in recent years has ably demonstrated his versatility in everything from The Last Jedi to Ex Machina to Brooklyn to The Revenant — turns out to be an inspired physical comedian as well.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

The idea of letting the likes of Farrell, Fey, and Hill loose within this colorful playground is undeniably appealing, but the picture rarely clicks as smoothly as it should, caught between the slapstick demands of the genre and the exceedingly clever tongues of the cast.

Candid sex talks, an ultra weird neighbor (Jesse Plemons steals more than one scene as creepy policeman Gary Kingsbury), and a mischievous dog further add to the hilarity; they're all part of uncomfortable moments that escalate into deliriously over-the-top slapstick.

Ashby's instincts are so off throughout Lookin» To Get Out that he only accentuates his major weaknesses as a filmmaker - plot twists, slapstick, chase sequences and lots of screaming that eschews any character development or scenes of insight.

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.

Critics Consensus: Playing Jack Frost as an evil cross between Liza Minnelli and Liberace, Martin Short is a welcome presence, but this tired series continues drawing from its bag of bland gags and dumb slapstick.

Like this summer's other slapstick cause célèbre, «Pineapple Express,» it's a comedy with as high or higher a body count as the movies it purports to be parodying, and the problem isn't the violence per se but rather the fact that neither movie ever finds a satisfactory balance between tongue - in - cheek and guts - in - hand.

Mistaking Toby for Sancho Panza, the two men flee the town on an adventure THR's David Rooney describes as a «tiresome succession of unfunny slapstick clashes and dramatic arcs that go nowhere.»

(He has agreed to bankroll the grandkids» education as long as they're sent to yeshiva, a plot detail that occasions some rather splendid slapstick ancient - rabbi humor, including a gag about «the YouTubes.»)

When Curly (Will Sasso) tells Larry (Sean Hayes) that the latter's smacks, kicks, and eye - pokes just aren't the same as Moe's (Chris Diamantopoulos), it may come across as some weird compromise between classic Stooges slapstick and feature - film semi-seriousness, but this is Farrelly territory, so you'd better believe it.

Director Will Gluck, who penned the screenplay along with Rob Lieber, quickly establishes the production's overtly slapstick tone right from the start, as a quartet of singing birds encircling the iconic Columbia Pictures «Torch Lady» end up as the dazed victims of a hit - and - run by an out - of - control Peter Rabbit (Corden).

Actually, it's like watching something other than a movie, like a bunch of bad acting, cheesy dialogue and laughably crap special effects, and like this kind of slapstick childish unfunny type of humour, all exploded onto your screen!!!! It's a bit like something you'd see on Disney Channel, like in the same league as Lizzie McGuire.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

The film is a shapeless mess and about as convincing as a cartoon, the usual mix of slapstick, doofus humor and raunchy sex jokes lacking even the bite or attitude to make it adventurous.

What transpires from there can only be described as a series of attempts to keep upping the ante on gross - outs, one liners, animal gags, and slapstick that doesn't add up to any kind of elaborate comedy.

The Nice Guys is a prototypical Shane Black film, saturated with all his earmarks as a filmmaker: Southern California, Christmas, private detectives, slapstick violence, explosions, people falling off of things, and a loosey - goosey plot that won't really hold up if you look too hard at it.

As the plot is thin, there's a lot of filler with side characters, including Octavius (Coogan, Philomena) and Jedediah (Wilson, The Grand Budapest Hotel) falling through an air vent and ending up in a replica of ancient Pompeii, Lancelot (STevens, The Guest) crashing a West End stage production of «Camelot» starring Hugh Jackman, and lots of not - too - funny broad slapstick involving Larry trying to corral an energetic caveman he's named Laaa who happens to be his spitting image.

As well as having the compulsory slapstick and Jonah Hill trademarks, there is heart to this comedAs well as having the compulsory slapstick and Jonah Hill trademarks, there is heart to this comedas having the compulsory slapstick and Jonah Hill trademarks, there is heart to this comedy.

His comic timing is as brilliant as always — watch him fall over a fence, and you would think he had invented slapstick.

Cue, as the subtitle suggests, a true underdog story, but also a flurry of quotable lines and well - judged slapstick.

Mr. Bean's Holiday (PG for mild epithets) Rowan Atkinson reprises his role as the incomparably accident - prone bumbling Brit for a slapstick - driven misadventure meandering from London to Paris to Cannes during which he is suspected of kidnapping, creates havoc on a movie set, and finds romance with a beautiful young actress (Emma de Caunes).

Though there are many weaknesses in the gags (the slapstick gets to be too difficult to believe at times, such as Morty being carried sideways in his sleep) and the characterizations are painted rather shallow (an uber - geek, a fat kid who loves food, etc.), there is an underlying sweetness to the delivery and kindness in its approach to the loner kids that is commendable.

Russell's captivating turn as Ego the Living Planet, unfurling via a storyline that's best when left unspoiled, as well as welcome additions like the strange and sweetly slapstick Mantis (newcomer Pom Klementieff) and Stakar Ogord (Sylvester Stallone, having a blast chewing up and spitting out serious space jargon).

It's a consistently surprising slapstick mystery featuring standout performances by Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, as well as a lot of ultra-violence and ultra-silliness.