Sentences with phrase «best as a sidekick»

Real - life World War II hero Audie Murphy played himself in the film classic To Hell and Back in 1955 (Murphy also played several other roles in films throughout his career); and in relation to lighter subject matter, shock jock Howard Stern, as well as his sidekick, Robin Quivers, played themselves in the big - screen adaptation of Stern's book Private Parts in 1997.

Add to the weirdness an underused bitch - goddess villain, Foxy Loxy (Amy Sedaris), who's transformed into a Southern Belle by the alien's obliterating death ray, as well as a sidekick pig, Runt (Steve Zahn), who speaks in Air Supply lyrics, is inspired by an invocation of Gloria Gaynor's fag anthem «I Will Survive,» is caught in the act of Spice Girls and Captain and Tennille karaoke, and is threatened with a grounding from his Streisand records for his bad behaviour.

Just picked up this pack tonight as well as the sidekick pack and xBox version of the game!

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Conversation can suffer a slow death because the sidekick you don't know as well isn't as keen on getting to know you.

A selection of side orders, called «sidekicks,» includes original recipe BBQ beans, homestyle macaroni and cheese, crinkle - cut fries and homemade coleslaw, as well as steamed green beans, baked sweet potatoes and corn on the cob.

Before the start of the series, in a desperate attempt to develop some special strategy to stop Orr and his goal - scoring sidekick, Esposito, Philadelphia Coach Fred Shero had spent long hours analyzing films of his team's repeated losses to the Bruins as well as clips of the Russian national team's checking tactics against Team Canada.

My mom friends and I were willing to buy anything that promised to make our lives easier — to make our babies sleep better, to make nursing more comfortable, to make having a baby as a constant sidekick a little less physically difficult.

My daughter also likes to use the Lil» Sidekick alone as a teething toy and it has a good texture for chewing.

Ben: And we also, and I don't wan na get waxed too sentimental here but we're also very lucky to have Brock with us and here as our podcast sidekick because you have kind of like an anniversary this week as well Brock right?

Even though he's hoofing the same animal - sidekick territory here as he did in Mulan, Murphy dominates the dialogue, portraying a donkey who's as motormouthed as he's supposed to be stubborn, the perfect foil to Myers» anti-social, Scots - accented Shrek (quite why Myers insists on repeatedly foisting this fake - Caledonian twang on us is a mystery, but, what the hell, it works well enough).

Disney was wondering why the critics dogged it because like me they remember the Lone Ranger as a smart, charismatic man of truth and justice with a keen mind and sense of valor with his trusty sidekick ready to assist and keen as well.

All of the supporting characters enrich the film as well — from the dry, witty presence of Catherine Keener as Penn's Secret Service sidekick, to the despotic blue - eyed veteran Earl Cameron as the Motoban Prime Minister Edmond Zuwanie (a thinly disguised version of Zimbabwe's disgraced leader Robert Mugabe).

47 Ronin could have been a landmark of sorts in the advancement of Asian actors in the Hollywood mainstream beyond token and sidekick roles, but when the material they're given is as third - rate and lifeless as this, such gestures toward progress can't help but seem hollow at best.

Despite looking like the love child of Bruce Willis and Ronald McDonald's sidekick Grimace, there really is something quite menacing about him, best surmised as this: he never loses his shit.

Downey Jr shined as Tony Stark for the same reason, and» Ant - Man» is full of jokes for their own sake — like Michael Pena's chatterbox comic sidekick — as well as tongue in cheek nods about how frankly ridiculous an ant - sized superhero is.

It plays extremely well, the graphics are amazing, the story rocks, Peter Cullen voices Optimus Prime, Metroplex the largest Autobot ever is your sidekick and finally... you can even play as Grimlock, the Dinobot!

The trailer shows some of the unique features available to Wii U owners, including using the GamePad as a map of the city, as well as being able to select your sidekick.

Wilson is best used in small doses, and although that's clearly not the case here (she gets second billing as Dakota Johnson's wild - child sidekick), if the rest of the cast is able to balance out her tiresome, in - your - face antics, «How to Be Single» could be a pretty decent date movie in a month strangely lacking in Valentine's Day fare.

Kate Beckinsale does her best, and certainly achieves more as the sidekick than she did as the lead in the awful Underworld; Richard Roxburgh is very over the top in a boring kinda way; and David Wenham is the only person that manages to make the most out of the very limited script they had.

Todd is being described as being a «compassionate, sweet, smarter - than - average man with biting wit» who definitely doesn't consider himself just a sidekick to Gently but rather thinks that he is «just flat out better than Dirk at a lot of things.»

While it allows Bronson to be a little less serious than the brooding characters he's better known for, the plot is an utter mess and the rescue attempts (there are several) are nothing more than a string of haplessly assembled action pieces that only serve to illustrate what a terrible rescuer Colton is (as is his sidekick of sorts, played by Randy Quaid).

, hardly qualifies as a making - of, although it's interesting to learn that the heroes and sidekicks split into two camps off - camera as well.

Evans is extremely well cast as the self - regarding braggart Gaston, and he and Josh Gad (who plays his adoring sidekick, LeFou) make a winning comic double act.

It's wearying, the endless scenes of Peter weeping piteously; exhausting when the standard pussy - whipped, sarcastic best friend (Bill Hader) does the standard sidekick in a scatological two - step tango; and just woeful when Paul Rudd makes his perfunctory appearance as a burner beach bum with no other function than to be to this little ejaculate of flicks what Rob Schneider is to Happy Madison joints.

Christina Applegate as Corinne: This is the best sister / girlfriend sidekick in a romantic comedy since Leslie Mann as Debbie in Knocked Up.

, with his former sidekick Bobby McCurdy while attending Austin's Bowie High School, and later became the chief film critic and movies editor at INsite Magazine and Study Breaks Magazine, as well as the film critic for Austin's Fox affiliate, KTBC (Fox 7 News).

As their agent Susan (Alice Lowe) tells them, confident, good - looking Charlie is leading - man material, whereas Oscar is made to play the «chubby, funny» sidekick... or, as it turns out, to sell his soul making nutty adverts dressed as a squirreAs their agent Susan (Alice Lowe) tells them, confident, good - looking Charlie is leading - man material, whereas Oscar is made to play the «chubby, funny» sidekick... or, as it turns out, to sell his soul making nutty adverts dressed as a squirreas it turns out, to sell his soul making nutty adverts dressed as a squirreas a squirrel.

Last night, Corden appeared in a segment where he auditions several different characters for Reynolds that could very well become Deadpool's sidekick in the next movie or, as Corden would wish it, the current film that's already out in theaters.

Not exactly your best known superhero, The Green Hornet began its life as a radio serial, spinning off into comics and then a short lived 60's TV series with Bruce Lee in the sidekick role.

As familiar as all that feels, these love triangle moments are immeasurably better than scenes focused on Efron's cadre of unfortunate sidekicks, particularly the increasingly objectionable Johnny Weston (of the dismal Project AlmanacAs familiar as all that feels, these love triangle moments are immeasurably better than scenes focused on Efron's cadre of unfortunate sidekicks, particularly the increasingly objectionable Johnny Weston (of the dismal Project Almanacas all that feels, these love triangle moments are immeasurably better than scenes focused on Efron's cadre of unfortunate sidekicks, particularly the increasingly objectionable Johnny Weston (of the dismal Project Almanac).

British funny lady Miranda Hart is a true find for anyone who hasn't seen «Call the Midwife» on PBS as Cooper's well - meaning if clumsy sidekick Nancy who fills in as her earpiece.

Sidekick Jamie Bell also performs well, especially in convincingly having to speak Gaelic, though, as with the lack of contrast in the atmosphere of the film, the duplicitous nature of his character isn't called into question nearly enough for the scenes in the middle of the film where he must pretend to be the master to Tatum's slave to be as effective as is warranted in the script.

The supporting cast do well to play normal opposite his hilariously inappropriate behaviour — Jamie Bell and Imogen Poots are great as his smart sidekick and a supportive female officer, while Eddie Marsan gives a wonderful against - type performance as Bruce's spineless friend, whom he drugs into dancing with fairy lights in Amsterdam.

Set in 1884, the film stars Alexander Skarsgard in the title role as well as Samuel L. Jackson as his sophisticated sidekick, Dr. George Washington Williams.

Knowles follows in the shoes of Elizabeth Hurley and Heather Graham as Powers» female sidekick and is quite good at capturing the attitude of the Blaxploitation heroines she's parodying.

Alongside the blossoming romance, this episode provides us with one of the best sidekick - based subplots yet, as Todd (Aaron Paul) decides to build his own Disneyland.

Doing his best impression of a classic character actor in the Gabby Hayes mold, a scraggly - bearded Bill Pullman stars as the title character, a lifelong Old West sidekick who finds himself on his own after his legendary compadre (Peter Fonda) is killed by cattle rustlers.

The well - chosen supporting cast includes Jeff Daniels as Terry's sidekick and Anjelica Huston as his doctor.

Robbie Coltrane gets all the good lines as Depp's sidekick.

The con's good and beautifully handled — it's a shame Edmund Lowe doesn't have more scenes, but Frank McHugh's great as Powell's sidekick — but it confuses the film's effectiveness.

That movie's lead character, played by Charlie Hunnam, was rendered entirely forgettable by dazzling supporting performances: a career - best Sienna Miller as the explorer's wife and, even more surprising, Robert Pattinson as his eccentric (and occasionally drunk) sidekick Henry Costin.

Scarlett Johansson gets a real chance to shine, as she's not as much a supporting player as a sidekick to Captain America, contrasting his virtuous nature well with he kind of real - world earthiness that makes for a good, balanced team, especially as her combat skills are of a similar vein.

Olga Kurylenko does good work as his unwilling sidekick; Bill Smitrovich and Will Patton add flavor as a hot - and - cold team of CIA operatives.

It's nice that Tonto isn't relegated to obvious sidekick status as he was in the 1950s TV series, but he might as well be since he is given nothing interesting to do.

Ben Foster and John Pinette are both good too, as Romijn's sidekicks.

Director Gore Verbinski takes the minor delights that worked well in the first film — such as the Laurel and Hardy - like sidekicks played by Mackenzie Crook and Lee Arenberg — and expands them to the size of subplots, so that no small bits remain.

Best of all, Kong has his trusty sidekick Diddy Kong to help plus Dixie and Cranky as additional backup in this hilarious romp through frozen tropical areas with lots of ground pounding and barrel - blasting.

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.

«It was an honor serving with you, sir,» Clouseau's sidekick (Jean Reno: Hotel Rwanda) says, which is complete bullshit even within the context of this bullshit: Reno's good cop has been witness to Clouseau's endlessly moronic behavior as well as the rewards he garners because of it.

As the straight - arrow Erwin, who's clearly interested in Nadine but has no idea how to snap her out of her various reveries, Szeto is a delight, as well as a refreshing choice for a romantic lead in a genre that usually relegates Asian performers to sidekick roleAs the straight - arrow Erwin, who's clearly interested in Nadine but has no idea how to snap her out of her various reveries, Szeto is a delight, as well as a refreshing choice for a romantic lead in a genre that usually relegates Asian performers to sidekick roleas well as a refreshing choice for a romantic lead in a genre that usually relegates Asian performers to sidekick roleas a refreshing choice for a romantic lead in a genre that usually relegates Asian performers to sidekick roles.