Sentences with phrase «celebrity cameos as»

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The many oddball celebrity cameos (Winona Ryder, Peter Fonda, etc) quickly prove more distracting than anything else, while the film becomes increasingly incoherent as it progresses.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

As for bizzaro celebrity cameos, they don't come much more off - the - wall than Mike Tyson singing along to Phil Collins» In The Air Tonight and smashing Galifianakis full in the face at the climax of the iconic drum fill.

The teacher (Melanie Griffith, in one of the movie's many celebrity cameos) cringes when Wiseau — he of the long dark hair and Gothic vampire vibe — repeatedly shrieks the name «Stella» as if summoning the spirit of A Streetcar Named Desire - era Brando from the Great Beyond.

Life's Too Short is occupied with nonsensical and barely developed sketch ideas as well as Extras - style celebrity cameos, Gervais and Merchant among them.

As we check in, our heroes have been dismissed from the police force due to an unfortunate incident involving a B - list celebrity (an amusing cameo you have to wait for the end credits to witness).

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

But once Deanna becomes one of the big kids on campus, this movie slides into as many possible familiar avenues as it can, even indulging in a ridiculous, lazy celebrity cameo that's more perplexing than anything else.

There's nothing — from the George Michael music to the celebrity cameos (including one from a famous Keanu), to any of the scenes that drag - on endlessly that comes - off as remotely funny.

I'm sorry to report that Simon Pegg, who was a pleasant vocal surprise as the one - eyed weasel Buck in the last movie, has only a miniscule cameo in this one, and the many new celebrity talents assembled for this outing — Jennifer Lopez, Peter Dinklage, Wanda Sykes, and others — do not make up for his absence.

A rundown of all the celebrity cameos would explain the movie just as well, as that seems to be the only principle guiding Smith's screenplay.

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.

A celebrity, cameoing as herself, politely acknowledges Howard's existence, and he proceeds to repeat this comically minimal tidbit as an anecdote, wearing it as a badge of honour throughout the film.

Plus as is evident from all the celebrity cameos in the movie, Franco has a lot of friends in Hollywood.

We may be in the minority on this, considering the warm reception that has greeted the film at festival screenings, but The Disaster Artist struck us as less a movie than an over-extended Funny Or Die skit packed with celebrity cameos — which is to say, it makes little sense if you haven't already seen The Room.

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.

Before it's over, the movie serves up a startlingly substantial celebrity - as - himself cameo that somehow rings as true as anything in the movie.

A different celebrity can be spotted every couple of frames — Katy Perry, Susan Sarandon, Neil deGrasse Tyson — but none of these cameos inspire even so much as a wan smile.

MacFarlane has a well - established penchant for pop - culture references and celebrity cameos in his projects, and Ted 2 continues that tradition with some fun re-appearances from the first film, as well as some new additions that will be great for fans of films and / or MacFarlane's animated universe.

The result is a long list of celebrity cameos including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Chris Rock, George Carlin, James Van Der Beek, Jon Stewart, Steve Kmetko, Shannen Doherty, Jason Biggs, Alanis Morrisette, Judd Nelson, and many, many more as Jay and Silent Bob make their way across the country in what turns into a conventional road trip movie with one joke; pot.

It's packed with hidden gems, celebrity cameos, sly innuendos, inside jokes and character development that builds off relationships established in earlier films featuring the various Avengers working solo or as a team.

The girth of celebrity cameos comes off as hedged in rather than organic and functions as little more than «movie stars of today playing fictitious movie stars of the past».

Next came 2013's «The Bling Ring» with Emma Watson putting her «Harry Potter» image behind her as part of a real - life gang of California kids who robbed the homes of celebrities (Dunst, an actual victim, made a cameo).

«Community» star Joel McHale pops up as Kunis» smarmy boss and there are a host of A, B and C - list celebrity cameos (um, Sam Jones, the star of 1980 movie «Flash Gordon»?!)

The inclusion of Jenkins and Whitford, as previously mentioned, is a nice touch and their work together adds a great comedic element to the proceedings (an even more recognizable celebrity appears in a late cameo).

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.

There are goofy celebrity cameos (Anna Faris as a coked - out version of herself), over-the-top supporting characters (Will Forte in full S.N.L. chameleon mode), and quasi-love stories for both Clarence and Rell.