Sentences with phrase «clever than funny»

Sometimes Maddin's eccentric wit is more clever than funny.

Full of ideas that are usually more clever than funny — e.g., the running joke satirizing lack of communication between men and women by having the characters speak jibberish, generic phrases, or different languages — but it should prove interesting and inventive enough to keep smart people watching to the end.

Not exact matches

BoJack is perhaps a little more clever than it is uproariously funny, but it is often very clever, and, moreover, well - tuned to the ludicrousness of the sort of low - level fame that surrounds BoJack.

There are countless shows that are much more clever, inventive and most importantly funny than this debacle, please don't buy into the it because it's British and very rude.

In one of the more clever twists, Enter the Dragon's sex slave scene tosses in a different spin — making the women into men — funny, and done with more subtlety than most other films would have shown.

The story develops at an enjoyable pace, works in several clever twists, and contains more than a couple of genuinely funny bits.

Written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, it's more clever than smart, but very funny and Williams underplays the part nicely.

Another modern «comic» who rather than making clever and funny jokes spends their time taking mean spirited shots at other people.

Shades of The Heartbreak Kid come to mind, but at least this version is funny and clever rather than just energetic.

Pee - wee's Big Adventure is more funny and clever a story than any film about a weird, childish man trying to recover a stolen bicycle should ever be.

It certainly doesn't seem all that clever, and most of the jokes are pretty juvenile, but it's a heck of a lot funnier than the first trailer we saw.

Bad Teacher - Better than it looked and than it got credit for, this dark comedy is quite funny and a bit clever.

Still, there are more than enough laughs and clever surprises in this broad and sometimes violent farce to warrant a recommendation, thanks to a solidly funny script by Mark Perez, some pretty neat camera moves and choreographed action / comedic sequences from directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein — and a likable and talented ensemble cast, led by two of my favorites.

There's also a bit involving Taco begging for a certain type of punishment that's just more off - putting than actually funny or clever.

What makes The Disaster Artist more than just a clever exercise in pop culture snark is that it understands on a profound and deeply human level what makes Tommy Wiseau's laugh achingly sad, even tragic, as well as funny.

Such women — cleverer, tougher and funnier than the men who underestimate them — perfectly suit an acting style rooted in directness and lack of vanity.

This is a different sort of script for Kaufman than his others, much less outwardly clever in its construction (though it may be his funniest script); that Kaufman feel is there, but it comes out more in his directorial choices than his writing.