Sentences with phrase «broad slapstick»

In his hands, the film — his solo directorial debut — is a befuddling wreck of disparate tones and styles, with broad slapstick one minute, arch-ironic dialogue the next, and supposedly thrilling action scenes after that.

As the plot is thin, there's a lot of filler with side characters, including Octavius (Coogan, Philomena) and Jedediah (Wilson, The Grand Budapest Hotel) falling through an air vent and ending up in a replica of ancient Pompeii, Lancelot (STevens, The Guest) crashing a West End stage production of «Camelot» starring Hugh Jackman, and lots of not - too - funny broad slapstick involving Larry trying to corral an energetic caveman he's named Laaa who happens to be his spitting image.

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.

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

All of the actors are totally game with the material, which includes broad slapstick and moments of sheer emotional panic.

While the story isn't particularly original, and the movie tends to drift over the top into broad slapstick, this comedy wins us over due to the camaraderie between the characters.

One of Sturges's most clever and beloved romantic comedies, The Lady Eve balances broad slapstick and sophisticated sexiness with perfect grace.

Rarely do sequels equal or exceed expectations but this comedy does, offering broad slapstick that's guaranteed to elicit laughter from small children and their parents.

As adept at tossing off verbal barbs as she is selling broad slapstick that in lesser hands would be simply preposterous, Mui has expert timing and darn near walks away with the picture.

David Gordon Green's films of late have run the gamut from broad slapstick (Your Highness) to understated drama (Joe), so seeing where a cynical political dramedy falls on the spectrum should be a draw in and of itself.

For others, it is unendurably and outrageously awful, an exercise in frantically broad slapstick comedy that inspires pure disbelief, as well as derision for those reported chin - strokers and ironic postmodernists in France and elsewhere who affect to admire it.

The formula of broad slapstick, sticky schmaltz, and simple premises continued throughout many of the worst children's fare, and one can blame Home Alone for a good part of why most live - action kids flicks are so devoid of anything truly worthwhile.

Too much of the breezy humor that made the book a delight is stripped away, replaced with predictable jokes and broad slapstick, sitcom - quality encounters with women and bears and a pushy, grating sentimentality.

He is able to give some of his lines a nice acid touch, but, for the most part, the oneliners, as written, are flat, and the broad slapstick gags just don't work (one running gag has him being literally tossed out of buildings — a real riot).

A broad slapstick gag involving a mishap with Brad steering Dusty's motorcycle is almost surreal in its over-the-top absurdity that one can't help but cackle.

Even though director and co-writer Jeremy Garelick has polished comic actors Kevin Hart and Josh Gad plugging away gamely, he shies away from his own darkly funny premise, and instead loads up on kooky supporting players, broad slapstick, and joke after joke about how male friendship is kinda icky — and possibly gay.

It also gives its cast a lot to play with in scenes that feature both broad slapstick and much more serious drama.

Blithely mixing the broad racial humour with the broad slapstick theatrics that typify Sellers and Blake Edwards's classic comedies of criminal bad taste, Rush Hour 2 even makes time for a couple of bombshell secret agents, a brief and largely inexplicable interlude involving breasts rendering a man amusingly mute, and a cheerfully inept sidekick who gets in the stray kick now and again.

The broad slapstick violence is impossible to take seriously, but they're not kidding around when they say «partial nudity».