After earning
big laughs throughout this summer's Bad Moms, the cast ended the movie with even more of them — and some «awws» — by each sitting down with their own moms.
Not exact matches
It never goes for the
big, brazen
laughs others would relish; perhaps it's apropos that the film extols the virtues of a small set of balls
throughout.
Great comedies keep peaking with
bigger and
bigger laughs while good ones like «Horrible Bosses» just provide decent ones
throughout.
There are giggles
throughout — a hefty percentage of them provided by Steve Carell as congenital moron Brick Tamland — but precious few
big laughs (no «Go fuck yourself, San Diego» here).
The assembled press audience mostly sat stony silent
throughout the entire film, with the one
big exception being a
big laugh near the end.
It's marvelous to hear how it changes
throughout the course of conversations, and how well it sets the audience up to build for a hearty
laugh or a
big scare.
Throughout the film the dialogue sparkles as brightly as the evening gowns, but the
biggest laughs come from the couple's knowing glances to one another, a semaphore of smirks and raised eyebrows that escapes everyone else in the room.
Unlike other Carell comedies, Dan in Real Life doesn't go for the
big laughs that you might be expecting, although there are certainly enough choice ones to have many smiling
throughout, and enough emotional elements to have some eyes mist up from time to time.
That outset not only prepares you to expect Allen occasionally breaking the fourth wall
throughout, a technique that scores some of the
biggest laughs, it also captures the essence of this film, Allen's signature romantic comedy, loaded with wit, intelligence, neuroses, and heightened consciousness.
Based on the novel by Michael Lewis, the guy who found a way to make baseball, math and statistics fascinating with Moneyball, the satirical chronicling of the 2008 housing market collapse The
Big Short isn't exactly an inspirational riot, even if there are ample
laughs to be found littered
throughout the film.