Sentences with phrase «buddy comedies work»

Skarsgard and Pena make the unlikely central duo in this bad - cop - worse - cop buddy comedy work with such a generous dose of hilarity and raunchiness that you'll easily forgive the film its naive moments and predictability.

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Working with Alliance Atlantis on its theatrical release, the Labatt beer brand and Toronto - based ad agency Grip Ltd. are producing a feature - length «buddy comedy» called The Movie Out Here.

In the first female driven buddy cop comedy, the actresses proved that women characters don't need a man to help them thrive in their careers and relationships; Ashburn and Mullins succeeded in their decision to work together stop a dangerous city drug lord from further killing anyone else he perceived to be a threat.

The sensibility of David Gordon Green, who jumps from indie dramas of small town tragedy to this stoner buddy comedy, is one of the reasons that Pineapple Express works.

With a long list of buddy comedies behind him, Hart has an idea why some teams work and others don't.

A prostitute buddy comedy about two lesbian hookers working the streets of New York.

The buddy comedy is yet another trope that Get Hard leans on and it simply doesn't work.

While far from perfect and falling into the expected predictable and trite storyline we've seen before in dozens of other buddy cop movies, «Ride Along 2» certainly works as a broad comedy.

Shane Black works his «Laugh, Laugh, Bang, Bang» magic here with the buddy comedy formula.

Synopsis: Two British buddies (Shaun of the Dead / Hot Fuzz's Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) head out on the road in search of Area 51 after attending a comic convention, only to encounter a cute little alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) along the way in this comedy from Working Title and Universal Pictures.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang works as a buddy cop picture, a noir, and a straight - up comedy.

Support work comes from Justice Smith as Radar, Jaz Sinclair as his girlfriend, Halston Sage as pretty girl Lacey, and Austin Abrams as the comedy - relief buddy.

Writer / director Edgar Wright, co - writer / star Simon Pegg, and star Nick Frost reunited again in 2007 on the action comedy Hot Fuzz, this time working within the buddy cop format and again turning out something wholly unique and wildly entertaining.

Heather Graham's debut as both a screenwriter and a director is a mishmash of romantic comedy, buddy movie, and feminist ideas about empowerment in relationships, through sex, and at work — with the suggestion that there's some magic at play in achieving those goals.

But the key member of the so - called «mumblecore» independent film movement reached a new level last year, when his romantic comedy Drinking Buddies was a modest hit, especially on V.O.D. Working with established stars like Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wilde, and Jake Johnson, Swanberg made his work available to a bigger audience than ever — which puts more attention on the two new films he had showing for audiences in January alone.

The arrangement forces irreverent, cynical fire warlock Zaira and bookish noblewoman Amalia to work together as one, blending classic buddy comedy with fantasy intrigue.

Thompson's most celebrated work and genre - defining masterpiece is at once a psychedelic road trip buddy comedy and a hedonistic 1970s reevaluation of the American Dream.