Sentences with phrase «comic possibilities»

The film's premise seems loaded with comic possibilities, but silly scenes overwhelm the story.

Lovely stuff, though I wish Allen would pay more craftsmanlike attention to pure comedy — given this wonderful milieu, many comic possibilities go untapped — and trust his audience to pick up the integrity vs. compromise messages so dear to his art.

This is not to say that Mr. Berg's screenplay doesn't have black comic possibilities as it wreaks increasing havoc among characters obsessed with the wedding plans of Kyle (Jon Favreau) and Laura (Cameron Diaz).

Listlessly directed by Ron Underwood, Pluto Nash is set in a lunar Vegas that suggests a number of promising comic possibilities, all of them studiously avoided in favor of mild gags delivered at a leisurely pace.

Rating: 9/10 — hugely enjoyable, and with its experienced cast working in effortless fashion, Million Dollar Legs is the kind of movie that modern audiences would be tempted to overlook — and that would be a travesty; alive with comic possibilities and fizzing with imagination, this is hilarious, inspired stuff indeed, and packs more into its relatively short running time than some features manage over twice the length.

That's a simple yet interesting premise with many comic possibilities, and for half of its running time, Mo» Money is an adequate showcase for Damon Wayans's talent.

Karloff lends gravity to the film, but by the time this one followed up earlier efforts like Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein and Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy, the team had mostly exhausted the series» comic possibilities.

The comic possibilities of Crick's dilemma develop into some decent humor, and the fragile opposites - attract romance between he and Pascal can be quite sweet.

The comic possibilities of a return to the»80s is frustratingly underused in the narrative, as typified by the too - brief cameo of Chevy Chase.

Anyone who likes Will Ferrell or Will Arnett recognizes the comic possibilities of delusional narcissism.

In his elusive sui generis brand of anti-sentimental, observational comedy, the comic possibilities of character and situation are always restrained by a defining sense of plausible reality and authentic, self - revealing emotional experience.

For a zombie movie, it's largely devoid of suspense and scares; instead, it focuses on the comic possibilities of four misfits indulging their most cherished fantasies under the bleakest circumstances imaginable.

They've tamped down their scabrous black humor, and they've also toned down the comic possibilities in the marvelous 1968 Charles Portis novel upon which the film is based.

Within 10 - 12 minutes, it seems that all the comic possibilities have been exhausted, but it's only a setup: the filmmakers have devised a series of episodes that leads the pets outside of their domesticated settings and into all kinds of delightful episodes.

You know it's going to be a waste of time because of the reference in the title to a largely fictitious demographic that was drained of its comic possibilities long ago.

The comic possibilities of this scenario are limited, and screenwriters Lauren Anne Miller (who also stars in the movie) and Katie Anne Naylon milk them for all they're worth.

Not a religious film by any means, it isn't concerned so much with Heaven or the afterlife so much as exploring the comic possibilities of a man transported from one life to another, trying to inject his own personality into the body of another.