Sentences with phrase «corny comedy»

Director Pollack (Tootsie, The Firm) gets the story, but at the same time, big name stars and corny comedy do impede the overall message, and whatever sense of weight the film might have had is mostly lost behind predictable romance and silly car chases.

And here are the five most disappointing films of the year: Fantastic Four (choppy and compromised superhero action), Sisters (corny comedy that's simply not smart enough), Southpaw (bogs down in boxing drama cliches), Pan (childish and manic kids» adventure), Black Mass (oddly unoriginal mob thriller).

«An old and rather corny comedy line has it that the only part of an automobile that can not be made foolproof by a safety device is the nut that holds the wheel.

Not exact matches

Reality - bending silliness - or even a good gross - out joke or two - would be preferable to the stale, corny jokes this movie tries to pass off as comedy.

(This is his second film; his first was a wonderfully corny little romantic comedy called «Big Eden,» which came out in 2000.)

Even though it's rather corny and sentimental, this colourful comedy - drama holds our interest mainly because it's about a subject we'd never imagine watching a film about.

An unapologetically silly movie that manages to hit the right notes, this free - wheeling comedy makes up for its corny premise with sharp writing and acting.

In a non-diegetic opening, an offscreen Wain feeds an imagined older Kenney (Martin Mull) corny lines about having changed comedy without being able to change... himself.

A sharply clever script and relentlessly kinetic structure keep us thoroughly entertained all the way through this corny zombie action - comedy.

Not exactly a fresh script, one part Sex and the City, one part Hanna Montana, and one part mid 80's John Hughes film, the end result; a corny romantic comedy with no nutritional value.

It has all the awesomeness of a late 80s / early 90s corny teen comedy.

That being said, go into this movie knowing that it is a campy, corny, over the top superhero / action / comedy that is just about crazy shooting sequences and one - liners, and you'll be fine.

It's the perfect blend of action, adventure and comedy that never feels «too stupid» or corny.

Meyers is in her element when the movie plays like classic narrative cinema, unafraid to go for the corny sentiment that she does with more conviction than the attempts at zeitgeist comedy.

So, yes, they both have binocular - style eyes and tank treads for mobility, but that's more coincidence than influence (if anything, they kept those features despite the fact that they'd been featured in a corny Steve Guttenberg comedy from the»80s).

And yet all this surprisingly violent mayhem has been nestled into a brisk, corny, even vaguely family - friendly action comedy about the platonic love affair between The Rock and his best friend, an orphaned, albino gorilla with what you might call an off - color sense of humor.