Sentences with phrase «comedy falls flat»

The comedy falls flat, the action is unexciting, and what's worse, the romantic angle is hopeless given that the hero is dead and his wife is still alive; it's too heavy an idea for such a «light» movie.

There's not a recognizable human being to care about, the story line is thin to the point of anorexia and much of the off - the - cuff comedy falls flat in the absurdist setting.

The race sequences are bland, the comedy falls flat, and the drama is laughable.

One problem is that DeHaan, seemingly miscast, lends a little too much weight and urgency to what's going on with Beth, especially as she falls deeper into zombie - ness, making too much of the comedy fall flat.

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There's the potential for «Superbad» - style comedy when Denis and his pal go on the run with Beth and friends, but the pace is slow and lines fall flat thanks to long pauses and hammy delivery.

I think that's pretty bad because, this could have been a good little comedy, instead it falls flat, and the gags are strained, unfunny and overall pointless.

There's little doubt, as well, that the movie's many attempts at comedy fall hopelessly (and aggressively) flat, with Kubrick's decision to seemingly give Sellers free reign contributing heavily to Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb's atmosphere of almost aggressive triviality (ie the majority of this stuff is distressingly free of relevance or even laughs).

It's an obvious take for a Hollywood comedy, but the team behind Game Night utilizes the ensemble cast to the best of its abilities and never allows the twists or the humor to fall flat.

And while its comedy may often fall flat, the film at least doesn't resort to speeding up the footage or the sound, or other cheap stunts like that.

With virtually the same blend of wit and idiocy as the 2001 original, this fashion - scene comedy is funny enough to spark some solid laughter in between the gags that fall flat.

«Hell Driver» ending up falling flat with the audience and there was almost total silence for what was supposed to be a comedy.

The comedy aimed at all ethnic groups often falls flat.

Deary, deary me... Super Troopers was such a great comedy... It's so sad to see Club Dread fall flat on its face.

As far as the style and sense of humor goes, it does still feel unique among the rest of the pack of franchises out here, even if it can't achieve the level of success in either of those departments that the first film did, particularly in the case of the comedy as a lot of the jokes in this one fall very flat.

Brand himself does a great job tackling the material he's been given, but the smart, talky comedy he was probably hired for falls completely flat in a movie with no regard for pacing, and a narrative too soulless to inspire much laughter.

While Horrible Bosses became the latest R - rated comedy to top expectations this summer, Zookeeper became the latest potential tentpole to fall flat.

Romantic comedies are ordinarily predictable, inane, and harmless, but in striving to be more ambitious and relevant, this one falls flatter with its slices - of - life approach only underscoring how shallow and unsympathetic it is.

Much of the comedy of Bad Moms (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, 2016)-- a film that is predicated on the very real, paralyzing fear mothers have about being not good enough to their kids (and being judged by others for it)-- falls flat because it starts from an unbelievable place, pushes only some details to their extremes (not really abiding by an «if x, then y» logic), and lurches forth with its plot.

An interesting and sometimes very clever not - so - romantic comedy from a promising first - time director, it still falls a little flat somewhere along the way.

The love story involving Arthur and a self - involved Earth girl (Zooey Deschanel) falls flat because they never register as more than stock comedy types: the nerd and the unattainable gal.

Of course, the bad taste comedy is not for everyone, there were times when I felt really uncomfortable and sometimes the jokes fell quite flat, some being a bit overly childish and silly.

Lamely scripted by Nicholas Thomas and director Luke Greenfield («The Animal»), this tedious wannabe action comedy misfires from the get - go, as gag - after - gag falls flat.

There are also plenty of times where jokes fall flat and never quite work, but that's just what you get with substandard writing for a formulaic comedy that's not meant to be anything more than week - old counter-programming to «Avengers: Age of Ultron.»

Lennon's impish goofing around the edges can be endearing, but the slapstick often falls flat and the collision of comedy and cruelty gets confused.

Reboots and spinoffs often fall flat; not so with Netflix's prequel and sequel to the 2001 cult comedy classic Wet Hot American Summer.

Of course, like practically all comedies centering on a boorish and unlikable individual, this wraps up with a few insincere moments of character maturity and empathy, but here such bits are no harder to take than the desperate gags flailing and falling flat at a rapid clip.

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The lazy script substitutes goofy situations for actual gags, much of which falls flat under Rob Pritts» plodding direction, and the comedy sours with a contempt for the audience.

But his efforts in Flaming Star and Wild in the Country fell flat with audiences, leading Presley to return to the weakly plotted musical romantic comedies that were big hits at the box office.

In fact, most scenes of intended comedy tend either to come across as excessively awkward or to simply fall flat.

As a buddy comedy, this falls flat.

But the introspection offered by this many - layered approach would fall flat without the strength of its central performances, and while a number of Anderson's staple actors make appearances — Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, among others — Ralph Fiennes steals the film as M. Gustave H. Achieving the subtle distinction between delivering a huge performance without being over-the-top, Fiennes balances his theatrical gravitas with his rarely - executed gift for comedy, making it impossible to imagine anyone else in the role.

The second segment almost came off like sketch comedy material and it fell flat for me, personally.

None of the dialogue is memorable, and the physical comedy (of which there is plenty) falls flat too.

Not only does every one of his jokes fall flat on its face with an audible thud, he seems to confuse comedy with screeching like a prepubescent child whose balls are still in his neck trying to match the screeches of a Dragon - ball Z character as they power up for 10 hours.

Right, so on the comedy front the game certainly nails it, as it also does with the character of Deadpool, but on the actual game part of the equation it falls flat on its face.

Human: Fall Flat launched onto the Nintendo eShop on December 7th, 2017, and recently surpassed two million sales worldwide, fast becoming a favourite of YouTuber and Streamers due to its hilarious, slapstick, co-op comedy.

There's nothing all that scary about Weeping Doll; any sort of creepy imagery just tends to fall flat and the game's voice acting can, at times, make the game feel more comedy than horror.

They managed to maintain the action, drama, and comedy without any falling flat.

With comedy being everywhere, safe driving doesn't fall flat in this area of knowledge.