Sentences with phrase «buddy comedy like»

As far as the narrative side of the equation is concerned, the film plays both like a 1980's - style buddy comedy like Midnight Run or 48 Hrs.

Though Stiller and Wilson aren't showing us anything new here, there's no denying their chemistry together; the actors play well off each other, which is certainly the most important element in a buddy comedy like this.

Now we get a look at actual gameplay, it looks more like a funny fusion in the vein of man - and - machine buddy comedies like Short Circuit.

Not exact matches

If he were to do another Shane Black buddy comedy, Kilmer already has a shortlist of who he'd like to play his partner in crime: «always Robert Downey Jr till the day I die.

Much like «Inglourious Basterds» in that it's another revenge tale based somewhat in historical fact (although there are no real - life figures this time around), «Django Unchained» also reveals itself to be somewhat of a buddy comedy, at least in the first hour when Django and Dr. Schultz travel around the country collecting bounties.

Though advertised as a buddy cop comedy, The Guard is more like straight crime drama with a fair amount of colorful levity.

The critical reception it got last year might not have predicted a sequel would be possible, but with $ 240 million in the bank worldwide, looks like we will see a follow - up to the mismatched buddy comedy of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in Daddy's Home.

What looks like a rather standard buddy action comedy is elevated by a smarter - than - normal script, skilful direction and surprisingly offhanded chemistry between Washington and Wahlberg.

THE INTERNSHIP director Shawn Levy has given us the likes of NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM and the underrated DATE NIGHT, so when heading to this Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson buddy comedy, you have a notion of what to expect.

With The Hangover, it looks like he has taken the frat comedy to its next logical step: a guy who is about to get married falling back into a mess of drunken antics with his buddies the night before.

When: August 13th Why: Writer / director Luke Greenfield must be a fan of the Fox series «New Girl,» because in casting Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. opposite each another in this buddy comedy, it feels like a spinoff featuring their characters from the show.

The Trust looks like it will fall somewhere in the middle but all I am expecting from it is a fun little buddy action comedy.

Like an eerie riff on a buddy cop comedy, the pair are almost helplessly pulled from that short - lived retirement for one last job.

Stuber sounds like a hilarious buddy - comedy that will be sure to stretch Bautista's comedic chops that he showed off so well in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Back in the long ago days of 2012, the idea of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum teaming up for a buddy cop comedy adaptation of the»80s television series 21 Jump Street seemed like an absurd idea destined for failure, and the movie right away poked fun at the lack of originality in its concept along with the industry trend at large of adapting old series.

If you've seen This Is the End on VOD or DVD and felt like you didn't get enough Seth Rogen / James Franco fun, Netflix have made available Pineapple Express, a stoner / buddy / action - comedy about a drug dealer and a process server who go on the run after one witnesses a murder involving corrupt cops and the head of a narcotics empire.

Think Like a Man (PG - 13 for sexuality, crude humor and brief drug use) Battle - of - the - sexes comedy revolving around four buddies who try to turn the tables on the objects of their affection after learning that the ladies are relying on relationship advice from Steve Harvey's best - seller.

Hart and Cube tread no new ground in this routine buddy comedy, which will invite comparisons to films like The Other Guys, Cop Out, and Pineapple Express from myopic moviegoers.

Per the standards long established in the road trip buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.

Directed by Raoul Peck on the heels of his triumphant I Am Not Your Negro, and co-written by him with the perpetually waggish Pascal Bonitzer (who has helped the likes of Raul Ruiz and Jacques Rivette invent unexpected gifts), The Young Karl Marx is to the best of my knowledge something new, both in buddy comedies and romantic costume adventures: the story of a scheme to shoulder aside the leaders of the League of the Just and rededicate the organization to a bold new movement, marrying descriptive sociology to post-Hegelian theory!

Identity Thief is all over the map when it comes to the kind of film it wants to be, sometimes playing like a wacky farce, sometimes as a black humor raunch-fest, sometimes as a silly thriller with laughs, and sometimes trying to draw out even some touching moments in a mismatched buddy road - trip comedy, a la Trains Planes and Automobiles.

Unfortunately, it plays more like a Will Ferrell buddy comedy, except replacing Ferrell's penchant for physical humor with Alexander Skarsgard's (The Legend of Tarzan, Hidden) one - note performance, which persistently disrupts the tone (Skarsgard was a last - minute replacement for the originally cast Garrett Hedlund, who left the project due to conflicts with McDonagh).

With a large and random sense of humor, Groove follows Kuzco and Pacha's journey to the palace, which like any buddy comedy, is filled with amusing obstacles, from a faulty bridge to a close call at a local diner.

Revisit these classic buddy - comedy films and be amazed at what action franchises were once like.

«Half Magic»: A bunch of buddies navigate careers, relationships and the like in a male ruled society on this romantic comedy.

Last month, Think Like a Man, an ensemble comedy inspired by Steve Harvey's relationship bestseller and revolving around basketball - playing buddies, spent two weeks at No. 1 before The Avengers arrived.

Rian Johnson's back - catalog hardly reads like a collection of tongue - in - cheek buddy movies or intergalactic comedies; his cult breakout Brick was a film about heroin abuse.

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.

I'm hoping even though Paul McGuigan (Sherlock, Wicker Park) and Max Landis» (Chronicle) take on Shelley is being billed as a horror / drama, it'll be more like a buddy comedy.

Then, of course, you have buddy cop comedies like K - 9 that further cemented our view of this breed as both a «police dog» and a hero.

Based on the title alone, you might think that director John Cameron Mitchell's «How to Talk to Girls at Parties» sounds like your typical buddy comedy or romcom.