Sentences with phrase «broad humor in the film»

There is some broad humor in the film which will appeal to a mass audience.

Not exact matches

In the hands of director Matthew Vaughn, this film packs some of the same sly humor as The Princess Bride, although the tone is not nearly as consistent and sometimes topples into broad humor or satire.

Director / star Jiang Wen has crafted a modern take on the wild Hong Kong action films of the eighties heyday, with all the energy, dotty humor, broad performances, and mad plot twists, and drops himself in the center as the eye of calm at the center of the chaos.

The film, which mixes both broad and absurdist humor with melancholy and even depressing themes, has some issues, but in the end it's an iconoclastic piece and a worthwhile character study.

«I was looking for a director who had a strong visual sense, who understood the parameters not simply of feature films, but of hour drama — and Paul has done both — and who had a political temperament that could believe in a story that had very little sex, or gunplay, or broad humor.»

All of the broad physical humor in the world can't distract from the fact that the film is an endorsement of psychological exploitation.