Sentences with phrase «campy enough»

The biggest disappointment, however, is that it's neither good enough nor campy enough to enjoy on any level.

Not campy enough, not smart enough — this is a movie that paces back and forth, unable to commit to any one direction.

Often campy, the movie isn't, until its end, campy enough, turning its final sting into more a confirmation of the sobriety of its build than the release of revulsion that I suspect was the intention.

Will Beall's script does a good job of balancing the drama with brief moments of humor, while Sean Penn's gleefully over-the-top turn as Mickey Cohen is just campy enough without being distracting.

The sex and violence was over the top and campy enough to work.

The script has some creative perks, including inserts of satiric humor amidst this outrageously absurd situation (though the film as a whole is far from campy enough to enjoy on that level).

Not exact matches

This is a prototype for Almodovar's later formula - a fusion of campy melodrama and quiet human introspection - but despite some strong ideas, this overarching story isn't strong enough to sustain said formula.

The basic storyline, that of researcher Dr. David Marrow (Neeson) inviting a trio of unstables (Zeta - Jones» campy, bisexual Theo; Wilson's insomniac swell Luke Sanderson; Taylor's mousy introvert Eleanor) to a much - maligned manse in order to study their reactions to fear and hysteria is set up well enough.

I didn't anticipate enjoying it, but it was gloriously campy, had the most abrupt entrance I've ever seen and enough charm to make me smile for days.

January / February are usually considered the «dump months» for campy films that have a significant enough budget that they can't go straight to VOD.

It is rumored that Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) was supposed to have played the lead here, which should tell you enough about the intent from the outset to make the movie as campy as possible.

The film is campy in individual moments, but it's not consistent enough to evolve into an ironic perspective.

It took all of the popular teenage films of the early 1980s (campy horror, voyeuristic sex comedies, suburban paranoia, etc.) and capitalized on their appeal enough to overcome any redundancy in its execution to other films.

Then, there is the game's campy plot about global insurrection and military fetishism — predictably mediocre and never pushing the goofiness far enough, it ensures that what could have been a guilty pleasure is instead a dismal bore.