Sentences with phrase «beloved movie comedies»

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A private school - educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, Jack Lemmon burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death in 2001.

DreamWorks Animation's comedy «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie» brings the anarchic adventure and unbridled potty humor of author Dav Pilkey's beloved children's book series — which for 20 years has sent countless elementary - school - age kids into fits of giggles and a few easily offended adults into fits of pique — to movie screens for the first Movie» brings the anarchic adventure and unbridled potty humor of author Dav Pilkey's beloved children's book series — which for 20 years has sent countless elementary - school - age kids into fits of giggles and a few easily offended adults into fits of pique — to movie screens for the first movie screens for the first time.

Everett has said his comically snobbish crook is a kind of homage to the late, beloved British comedian Terry - Thomas, whose plummy accents he recalls; he and Dunaway play the pretentious types that movie comedy has loved to deflate all the way back to Mack Sennett.

Wright didn't reveal any deep, festering secrets about his adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's beloved slacker / video game comedy (outside of the not - wholly surprising revelation, also discussed on the film's commentary track, that test audiences were super torn on the movie's end).

If that movie wasn't great and an absolutely perfect training ground to make an Avengers movie, I don't know what is — not to mention their work directing beloved comedies like Arrested Development and Community, which should help keep the Avengers personality intact.

With his comedy group, Broken Lizard, he has produced and directed beloved movies such as Super Troopers, Beerfest, and Club Dread.

His latest movie, «Central Intelligence,» also saw him directing massive Hollywood talents for a generally successful — if not universally beloved — action - comedy.

The lesson of Ghostbusters, a reboot of the (perhaps too beloved — but that's a whole string of discussions that aren't pertinent to this movie) 1984 comedy, is that it's best to give a cast this good at doing what they do the chance to actually, well, do it.

Diesel left the series (his character, Xander Cage, was killed off in a DVD supplement and replaced by Ice Cube for the poorly received sequel xXx: State of The Union) to embark on a string of drama, sci - fi and family - comedy roles; but after a string of disappointments with Chronicles of Riddick, Find Me Guilty and Babylon A.D. he ultimately returned to the Fast series - only to see it reborn as an ensemble action franchise that's now one of the biggest and most beloved movie properties in the world.