Sentences with phrase «celebrity cameo gags»

, the fourth wall breaking narration and celebrity cameo gags, and easily could have been replaced by Charlie Kaufman's tender and low - key - yet - complex adaptation of his own play

The script, while often decent, is the impetus of two of the things I disliked most about The Big Short, the fourth wall breaking narration and celebrity cameo gags, and easily could have been replaced by Charlie Kaufman's tender and low - key - yet - complex adaptation of his own play Anomalisa.

Not exact matches

Plenty of the tasteless gags don't fly, and for every celebrity cameo that works (a hilariously heavenly Reese Witherspoon), there are two or three that crash and burn.

Indeed, the comedian's favoured director Larry Charles (TV's Curb Your Enthusiasm) returns, as does his uneasy combination of slapstick silliness, gross - out gags, juvenile jests, celebrity cameos and political parody, in a film that effortlessly resembles the unruly ridiculousness of his preceding pieces.

Gnomeo & Juliet desperately straddled that sloppy middle ground between loud, kid - friendly slapstick and winking at adults through instantly dated pop - culture gags and celebrity cameos, to perfectly average results.

It's a fitting start for a movie that acknowledges its own inescapable sequel - ness at least as often as «Jurassic World,» repeating some gags, inverting others, and lining up a new raft of «I can't believe that's really...» celebrity cameos.

But these mildly amusing (at best) gags are nothing more than an obvious disguise for the thinness of the premise, as is the parade of celebrity cameos, encompassing the likes of Snoop Doggy Dogg, Willie Nelson, Janeane Garofalo, Stephen Baldwin, Steven Wright, Jon Stewart, and Bob Saget.

But many of the gags fall flat — Deanna's flop - sweat - and - fainting oral presentation in archaeology class; her trashing of her remarrying ex-husband's wedding reception; a painfully telegraphed celebrity cameo — and there's virtually no flow from one scene to the next.