Sentences with phrase «broad pratfalls»

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McCarthy plays it broad, there's some vague female empowerment subplot counterbalancing her butterfly - like transformation, and there will be some pratfalls.

While the differences between Ferrell and Wahlberg's characters offer broad comic strokes, pratfalls and stunts, the supporting characters are the secret weapons here.

Their tendency toward pratfalls and other bits of broad, physical humor is also funny every so often.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

But these moments of tension alternate uneasily with broad puns and pratfalls.

Even Hamburg's non-scatological humor is uninspired, faux - Farrelly attempts at would - be outrageousness: broad sight (pun intended) gags with Polly's blind ferret; Reuben's ex-child star friend's (Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose pratfall of an entrance ominously foretells of the depths to which he's required to sink) desperate «comeback» bid in a community theater production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

One scene could contain a pratfall, a low - brow joke, a broad joke, and a very dry joke.

No doubt some of this was improvised, but the script, by Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen, is also efficient and light, revelling in its broad comedy, complete with bathroom humor and pratfalls.

The broad, nested bands of Pratfall, from 1974, show not a trace of anything beyond the picture plane.