Sentences with phrase «cheap gags»

In the end, I can recommend this film to anyone who is out for a few cheap gags, but I would just as quickly tell them to avoid it.

For cheap gags, take the scene in volume 1 when Rando comes home with his head covered in blood, after head - butting six guys unconscious.

A portrait of late 1980s Japan on the verge of intertwined economic and existential crises, Yakuza 0 is as full of cheap gags about early cell phones as it is a bracing look at how to survive — and stay true to yourself — in a moral vacuum.

It's one of the smarter comedies this year, as it's grounded in the truth and doesn't rely on cheap gags like Get Hard or Hot Pursuit.

Cheap gags about his Irish rampant alcoholism aside, Farrell's job is the straight man here, a fading screenwriter who is moments from a deadline and desperate for inspiration.

There aren't any pratfalls or cheap gags pushed in your face.

Instead of eliciting even a grossed - out gasp, let alone a chuckle, cheap gags such as Reuben's irritable bowel syndrome uneasily mixing with Polly's penchant for spicy ethnic foods or Reuben's boss (Alec Baldwin, wasted) touching Reuben's ears with soiled hands make for groans.

At its core, this is another enjoyable bromance that uses cheap gags to keep the audience chuckling awkwardly.

I'm not sure what director Katherine Dieckmann (best known as an R.E.M. video director) thought she was grabbing hold of here, but this melodrama (tinged with cheap gags) is all atmosphere, broad Lawn Guyland accents, and jokes at the expense of Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

Butt as an entire package, from start to finish, the humour does come off as feeling somewhat forced at times, like somebody sat there trying really hard to make it funny, but found themselves having to rely on cheap gags too often, almost covering up entirely the moments of genuine humour that are to be found.

Sure, it involved a fair number of cheap gags, but it twisted them to be more than just the standard gross - out nonsense you find it lesser comedies.

Movies with a talking animal protagonist can go south really fast, but King injected the film with a hefty dose of heart and some genuine humor that didn't rely on cheap gags or potty jokes.

The Syriac Orthodox have suffered for centuries and are enduring one of their worst trials right now, and Colbert is using them for a cheap gag.

The amazing thing is that, despite all the cheap gags and easy scorn, it seems to be working.

When his boss (Jane Lynch) comes on to him like the dirtiest divorcée on a cruise ship, it's not just a cheap gag.

That might sound like a cheap gag, a debasing opportunity to savor violence or to laugh at human suffering.

Game Night is that R - rated comedy that doesn't focus on toilet humor or cheap gags.

The writing is not as fresh as his earlier stuff and the film resorts to some cheap gags.

Fist Fight settles for the cheapest gags and lower - tier humor to be a comedy classic.

Loaded with great performances, a heartwarming story, and humor that doesn't rely on cheap gags, it's an adventure that's perfect for all ages.

This time around though, not only is he even more pleased with himself, he's resorted to cheap gags that are more mean - spirited than clever, which often left me with an undeniably bitter aftertaste.

Although Drinking Buddies starts out looking like a traditional rom - com, Swanberg quickly subverts viewer expectations, resulting in a film that is romantic but surprisingly devoid of sap, funny without falling back on cheap gags.

Get A Job's primary problem is that it doesn't know if it wants to be a realistic look at millennials and the current economy, or go for the cheap gag about the jive - talking pimp renting out a sleazy motel.

Get A Job's problem is it doesn't know if it wants to be a realistic look at millennials... or go for the cheap gag

Then there's the scene when Ohio almost gets to kiss Wichita but Tallahassee interrupts; the one where Little Rock is taught how to shoot a rifle; the one where a nun drops a piano on a zombie; and the one where a clown crawls underneath the door of a public bathroom stall — one of several instances in which the film ignores its own lore for the sake of a cheap gag.

But as a woman with dwarfism, it wasn't just the cheap gags at his character's expense that I found troubling

And that's what sets the satire in The Stanley Parable apart: it isn't a spoofy collection of cheap gags, but a more intellectual deconstruction of gaming down to its essential building blocks.

And even that's not real - I deliberately took the screenshot before he'd finished speaking just so it looked rude for the sake of a cheap gag.

And while the bitcoin bit may be brushed off by some as a cheap gag, DeGeneres» segment is perhaps reflective of how bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have taken on greater prevalence in the mainstream consciousness.