The movie is stuffed with fun
celebrity cameos from Franco's famous friends (including Seth Rogen and Paul Scheer), and the casting choices are spot on.
The celebrity cameos from Duck Dynasty members Willie and Korie Robertson and the Newsboys are low key object lessons in defusing conflict rather than escalating it.
McKay even enlisted
celebrity cameos from Selena Gomez, Anthony Bourdain and Margot Robbie to explain the financial mumbo jumbo and how the protagonists» financial judgments are all factual.
The first episode features a tepid
celebrity cameo from Mario Lopez, plugging his tequila company.
Not exact matches
It could be a
cameo from a rock band singing a special song for the kiddies or a famous
celebrity who's sharing a bit of knowledge on screen.
Murphy and Hall play multiple roles, and there are innumerable
celebrity cameos peppered throughout the proceedings — including the Duke Brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy)
from Trading Places.
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.
They all riff on the idea of SNL featuring too many
celebrity cameos in recent years, although Glover clarifies he's just here to look for his missing hat
from the night he performed on the show.
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).
Jed is known for writing the cult movie «Slashed» which features acting performances
from Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland
from Coldplay, Moby, Ben Kweller, ASH, James Nesbitt and a host of other
celebrity cameos.
And while The Muppets have worked with real - life
celebrities from the start of their TV series days, the number of A-list
cameos in «MMW» breaks the bank.
Aside
from starring in the movie and personally seeking out
celebrities for possible
cameos, he's also spearheading the viral marketing campaign of the movie - relentlessly promoting the movie in any way possible.
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.
Narrated by investment banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling), The Big Short demystifies economics mumbo - jumbo
from «sub-prime» to «synthetic CDOs» with a little help
from casual
celebrity cameos and Vennett's sarcastic commentary.
The
celebrity cameos —
from Dax Shepherd to James Franco — also were great fun, providing a few solid chuckles along the way.
Plus as is evident
from all the
celebrity cameos in the movie, Franco has a lot of friends in Hollywood.
With a little help
from his star, Han Ye - ri, Zhang spoke with me about blurring the lines between the subconscious and reality,
celebrity cameos, and what makes the ideal man?
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.
Aside
from Brick (who finds his true soul mate in Kristen Wiig's oddball secretary Channi), Ron's fellow anchors are not given a great deal to work with, and when the
celebrity cameos eventually arrive (in a heightened version of the first film's Battle of the Anchors), they are thrown at the audience at a most extraordinary pace).
The show is filled with kooky characters and a slew of
celebrity cameos like Diane Delano («Popular», «The Ladykillers»), Daniel Roebuck («The Fugitive» and «Lost»), Wyatt Knight («Porky's»), Ian Petrella («A Christmas Story»), and a few of the guys
from HBO's «Entourage».
A proposed Mel Gibson
cameo ended up getting the kibosh thanks to protests
from other cast and crew members, but could we see a last minute
cameo from Hollywood's latest
celebrity meltdown instead?
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.
The film also features a plethora of
cameo appearances by
celebrities Neil deGrasse Tyson, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, Soledad O'Brien, Nancy Grace and Dana Bash who merely distract
from rather than advance the plot.
Even the female
cameos in the film have the
celebrities being downgraded
from influential people in their respective fields to nothing but sexual objects used to reward the undeserving male characters.
I admit, the zombies mode in Call of Duty games has never really been my cup of tea, and I personally would've rather have seen Spec Ops make a return
from Modern Warfare 2, but Infinity Wards take on zombies this time around is fun with a ton of old school references spread out all over the place, along with some surprising, yet entertaining
celebrity cameos.