Sentences with phrase «comedy type films»

Are there any blockbuster or comedy type films that were bashed by critics and then turned out to be regarded as great films?

Not exact matches

The Jungle Book is a solid fun family film filled with comedy and is the type of film anyone of all ages will enjoy.

Secondly the tone of this film varies hugely, at one point its a dumb black comedy type affair, then its a somewhat semi serious, dirty government type affair, then its trying to be a Bourne-esque kickassery type affair, then it hints at being a rom - com with cutesy dialog, and at times it can be a bit heartfelt.

The film is quite underrated and if you love these types of comedies, then you'll enjoy this film.

The film definitely hits some familiar notes with this type of indie - comedy, but I think it's a really damn good movie that sort of flew under everybody's radar.

For better or for worse, a certain type of filmmaking has come to dominate American film comedy.

Spy is a kick ass female james bond type action comedy film starring Melissa McCarthy and a well known cast.

I can totally agree with that analogy, because the film's main trio reminded me of a lot of the same type of characters from the coming of age comedy.

There doesn't seem to be any limit to the type of movie he'll make, with or without credit: a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, an Adam Sandler comedy, a family film, a violent one.

The Nugget is a mild - mannered Australian film that fits right in with the type of comedies they generally make, full of likeably daft little guys that discover they like the simple lives they lead, almost losing it all when something bigger comes along.

Obviously, there are comedies beyond hard R - rated types (and I'm not disparaging that class, as Bridesmaids and the first Hangover are fine films), but most of the visible ones are either animated family films or romantic comedies.

With a strikingly against - type performance from the late Gandolfini, this film gives the romantic - comedy formula a welcome adult spin.

Here, the film makes a sharp turn into a «Saturday Night Live» - type broad comedy complete with grotesque religious stereotypes, none more cringeworthy than Brett channeling a black pastor in a sermon that borders on minstrelsy.

It's the type of half - assed, sketch - style comedy that only those who are already inclined to get a few laughs out of the film based solely on its premise — and aren't terribly demanding of films that don't demand terribly of themselves — are likely to truly enjoy it for what it is.

Chris has done this incredible thing where the sequel, the way he described it to me, elevates the movie from being a horror movie — and I wouldn't even say it's just a horror movie because it's a horror, comedy, rom - com drama — into a Back to the Future type of genre film where the sequel joins us right from where we left off, it explains a lot of things in the first one that didn't get explained, and it elevates everything.

Scoffing at gross - out comedies just because they aren't in accord with what has traditionally been construed as quality cinema doesn't mean that this type of film should forever be banished from award ceremonies.

As familiar as the coming - of - age comedy may seem, «Lady Bird» is filled with so many charming surprises and brilliant performances, most other films of its type feel even more mundane by comparison.

I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big - budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»

Horrible Bosses - The funniest film of the year, this comedy excels on the charms and chemistries of a cast playing to and against type.

His new film sounds like a like a hot blast of Tarantino - type fun: a crime comedy about a getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) who finds himself in trouble when his heist goes wrong.

Functioning as a social critique but operating first and foremost as the driest, bleakest type of comedy, the film seeks not chuckles but gasps of amused horror, a goal most ably and hauntingly achieved during a sick - joke finale in which the bubble is finally burst thanks to a sly bit of pop - culture infiltration.

The most unique thing about this film poking fun at the world of magicians is the various types of comedy, including slapstick, gross and vulgar, witty and, of course, obnoxious.

It's a (sort of) clever gag since Mr. Ayoade is doing just that during the film's 97 - minute running time, and it's also a standard representation of the type of comedy to follow: quirky, droll, almost mature, supposedly original.

Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.

Kevin Smith had once been on board for a soon - after cancelled remake of a classic 1980s comedy, Fletch, which, after seeing the type of effort he's turned in with this 1980s cop comedy homage (Smith does secure the once - retired services of Fletch's composer Harold Faltermeyer), may have been a blessing for that film's fans.

Also, a majority of the few studio films that are directed by women tend to be comedies or light dramas, which are not the types of films that often get nominated for Academy Awards.

Where a lot of films of this type feel like a comedy sketch drawn out long past being funny, «Talladega Nights» keeps working all the way up the end without dropping its ironic and absurdist tone, and ends up being not just a good comedy but a fairly satisfying sports film as well, neither of which is that easy to do.

It is a very cool story with a very hilarious Borat - Ozzy type character... this is just a great movie and since it's a comedy but achieves so much more... maybe it should win best film awards... I feel excited for the cast but also for the original the room cast... I hope somethings good comes to them other than just Greg and Tommy...

Liar Liar is from this second type of comedy film.

A few weeks ago, sources complained to Deadline about the underperformance of Pirates 5 and Baywatch, both of which were critically drubbed, claiming that «once upon a time these types of films — a family adventure and a raunchy R - rated comedy — were critic - proof.»

See, Handy is afraid to take chances (more on this character type and conundrum later in Eurotrip), and Welcome to Mooseport is essentially a poor situation comedy based on making the most insufferable creation to be captured on film since John Leguizamo's Pest.

The view from TIFF: Allen's evident lack of investment in his characters turns Tall Dark Stranger into a no - stakes Husbands And Wives, recycling old types and situations from past Allen films into a comedy that presents the complications of infidelity, but misses the fallout.

Casey Wilson, Missi Pyle, and Sela Ward are funny as the media types, especially once the film becomes a dark comedy, although I was getting unbearably annoyed by Pyle's Nancy Grace impression and Wilson's screeching by the end.

It helps that he is using Jean Dujardin, who is working against type as the tough, unyielding magistrate, a performer whose title role in George Valentin's silent film «The Artist» is a gem of comedy in which a Jack Russell terrier stole the show right from under Dujardin.

His films, which do not begin with finished screenplays but are «devised» by the director in collaboration with his actors, have always been about modern Britain — often about inarticulate, alienated, shy, hostile types, who are as psychologically awkward in his comedies as in his hard - edged work.

Jaglom's appeal may finally rest on the audience's lack of exposure to other self - reflexive movies — a type of film that virtually defines much of the French New Wave, American experimental film, and Hollywood movies about movies, ranging from Sullivan's Travels to The Stunt Man to comedies by Jerry Lewis and Albert Brooks.