Sentences with phrase «comic gold»

But even this - this mildly outrageous, miniature comic gold mine - the movie manages to screw up.

but when you can work such comic gold from deep pain and surprise regularly with dramatic depth (Kristen Wiig) or when you're a completely singular star who is endlessly watchable (Greta Gerwig) shouldn't you be able to win prizes?

Little Boxes mines subtle comic gold from the misunderstandings of wine - swilling faculty burnouts, cool - crazed fifth - grade girls and the accidental exoticism of an NYC family thrust from its comfort zone.

Sounds like comics gold to me!

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams strike comic gold — or at least silver plate — as a hyper - competitive game - crazy couple whose suburban couples gaming party goes way off the rails when an equally competitive globe - trotting / high rolling brother to the husband (Kyle Chandler, cast against type) comes home, initiates a murder / kidnapping mystery game that is in turn hijacked by real hoodlums who play for keeps.

Band of Robbers doesn't quite spin its imaginative conceit into comic gold, but it offers some minor pleasures along the way.

Right away on paper, a project that pits Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis against each other as two boobs in a political race sounds like outrageous comic gold.

This flimsiest of set - ups is fleshed out with such comic gold as defaecating felines, profuse body hair, and even several hobbits.

Your favorite supporting players — J.B. Smoove's slick - talking Leon, trusty sidekick Jeff Garlin, mercurial ex-wife Cheryl Hines — will be back to read our antihero the riot act, and the prospect of Larry let loose in a post-Trump world, however, is practically guaranteed comic gold (God have mercy on the first alt - right type to have the misfortune of crossing Larry's path).

Goldie Hawn's cinematic return after a fifteen year absence is cause for immediate celebration, but pairing her with Amy Schumer as a mother - daughter team promises uproarious comic gold.

There are moments of true comic gold, from The Thick of It - style implications of the Shadow Health Secretary's husband going private for a terminal diagnosis, to the daft panic when searching for the right music to revive a dying man.

This is comic gold here.

(Ferrell's response to a piece involving «pillows that have only been slept on by acrobats» is comic gold.)

You are comic GOLD, because every single thing you write is so relatable!

Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999) Woody Allen capped off the «90s by creating a character loaded with both tragic flaws and comic gold.

Screenwriters Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, along with returning directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, realize they have a comic gold mine in Steve Carell («The Office») so they keep the focus on their supervillain - gone - supersoftie who's dealing with the challenges of being a good dad to three very cute girls.

If that smartly stupid - funny, endlessly quotable, and surprisingly endearing 1994 hit (the Farrellys» feature debut) was comic gold, this 2014 sequel gets the bronze for throwing so much at the wall, including plenty of the moronic duo's «greatest hits,» that the hit - and - miss whole ends up being just funny enough.

Though the film returns to Alan Tudyk again and again as if mining comic gold, his turn as a gym rat who thinks he's a pirate remains more puzzling than funny.

Blair is supremely undervalued for her dry bluntness, and there is comic gold her in her sudden pivot from cloyingly yourning mother to bitter revelry.

Part of the problem with «The Hangover 2» is the reasonable expectation that the newly minted franchise would up the stakes on the comic gold the filmmakers stumbled upon the first time around.