Sentences with phrase «average comedies as»

Not exact matches

The multi-camera comedy has reinvigorated a family friendly genre and in One Day at a Time, the laughs are earned through your average multi-camera family hijinks as well as nods to current events, political commentary and age - old generational wisdom.

A typically crass and sexist gangster comedy from Eddie Murphy that's nowhere near as good as A Rage In Harlem (which is only average itself...)

I view it as an average enjoyable comedy with decent laughs.

While the script does present a realistic take on the chaos of life with little ones as far as this writer can tell (full disclosure: I am nobody's mother), it still conforms to the tired comedy mandate that at least a half - dozen contemporary pop - culture references must be inserted into the average feature - length script.

While not as jam - packed with laughs as some of his earlier work, this mockumentary — about a competition for minor - league and college sports mascots — still averages more laughs than almost any comedy you can name from the past six months.

The film does rebound for an effective and uplifting final stretch, however, which ultimately does confirm Coming to America's place as a better - than - average comedy and a worthy followup to Murphy and Landis» first collaboration, Trading Places.

Nick's story — as well as the cast of nutcases he has to deal with — works for Dead Rising's oddball mix of comedy, social commentary, and outright gore, but it never really gels into something deeper than your average B - movie plot.

Also, as with most Apatow comedies, the female roles tend to lack complexity, basically just male fantasies with a propensity for liking geeks and average joes.

Aside from being a hugely entertaining romp, this film also works as a far above - average Irish rural comedy as well as a freaky monster movie.

Similarly, Gormican obviously wishes to present his characters as more complex than the average comedy hero, just as in touch with their hearts and minds as with their genitals and base impulses.

Well known to fans as a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, Scott Thompson is anything but your average comedic talent.

As with the recently reviewed Little Black Book, Without A Paddle brings a little more to the table than the average comedy, although it is much dumber than the aforementioned film.

Thank god, Eastwood seems the least bit interested in making this a comedy, which is good, as it would turn Gran Torino into an average, forgettable flick.

Idiocracy is the sci - fi comedy from Mike Judge about an average guy, played by Luke Wilson, who is frozen and wakes up in the future - only to discover it's an idiotic place with Terry Crews as President Camacho running the country, and Brawndo being distributed instead of water.

In The Honourable Wally Norman, veteran comedy director Ted Emery used Cassell as the pivotal character, boozy politician Willy Norman, who misspells his own name and sets Kevin Harrington's average Joe «Wally Norman» on a course to Canberra.

The way in which McDormand delivers her lines or expresses so much emotion and humanity without even uttering a single word is as good as your going to see and her and McDonagh seem like a match made in movie making heaven as they collaborate together too make this heavy bleak drama / comedy a cut well above average.

Scorching word - of - mouth helps Ryan Reynolds in tussle with squeaky rodents, as Chinese comedy sensation scores exceptional site average on these shores

«I, Tonya» is just one example of an above average film, which stars Margot Robbie as Olympic figure skater, Tonya Harding, in a biographical sports comedy - drama about the 1994 attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.

Avoiding straight retread and trying hard to keep you guessing, the follow - up has its humorous moments and regard for viewers, both of which are enough to qualify it as a slightly above average comedy.

As Reich argued back in the 1930s, «If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.»