Sentences with phrase «deadpan characters»

In this way, the objects still remain rather abstract and deadpan characters to us.

Inside the safe enclosures of Anderson's aesthetic fantasies, deadpan characters and their deadpan melancholy resonates.

this movie is bound to hold some laughs, especially with Stiller's antics juxtaposed against DeNiro's deadpan character.

Not exact matches

Many of the xtranormal videos that have caught on with a big audience have followed a similar formula as this one: the jokes that work tend to be those whose humor relies on repetition and deadpan delivery, since characters say the same lines exactly the same way every time.

As always, there are many laughs to be had in the characters» deadpan delivery of strange, intentionally stilted dialogue, as well as in the understated and decidedly non-wacky physical comedy.

Yep, this is Aardman's first sports movie, filtered through director Park's specific sensibility of slapstick foolishness, with deadpan animal sidekicks, endless puns and actors like Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall and Miriam Margolyes having a lovely time lending their voices to his buck - toothed, beady - eyed Plasticine characters.

This is an arrestingly sophisticated and sardonic sitcom, with deliciously deadpan narration and stylish flashbacks, about mostly self - absorbed characters at odds with one another and the world at large.

In some ways, Lucy represents the point at which both roles converge, and Johansson has the unusually difficult job here of subtly conveying her character's observations, reactions and eventual epiphanies in a mostly deadpan, flattened - out register that becomes only more subdued as the film progresses.

Stillman does however feel an affinity with Wes Anderson, director of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, who is similarly drawn to well - off, eccentric, articulate characters and deadpan wit.

Brad's Status is an honest film that captures White's incisive deadpan humor and his ability to create characters who talk and act like real human beings, not cardboard caricatures.

His character is deadpan and oblivious to just how ridiculous he is, which did create a nice contrast to Carell's over the top antics.

Wilson has been turning up in too many movies as the charming, deadpan co-star for us to be charmed anymore, while Murphy must play something other than that smart - aleck motor - mouth character if he has to be funny again.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Along with Kendrick's character Beca, an aspiring DJ with a spiky cool - girl attitude who joins the Barden Bellas reluctantly, viewers can hang their skepticism on Gail and John (Elizabeth Banks and veteran Christopher Guest film improviser John Michael Higgins), the aged - out adults who provide alternately unenthused and deadpan - idiotic color commentary for each starry competition in «making music with your mouth.»

While this quirky mockumentary about the making of a stage musical didn't strike it big at the box office (earning less than $ 3 million worldwide), it soon became a cult classic for its deadpan humor and oddly lovable characters.

Johnson («Looper») deftly weaves the plot threads together, mixing deadpan humor, familiar characters — like the stalwart Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo, filling the furry boots of Peter Mayhew) and the chrome - plated Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie)-- and some surprising new ones, led by Laura Dern's Vice Admiral Holdo.

Still, this tame but fitfully funny goof on suspense cinema at least assembles an agreeable guest list — from McAdams, beamingly charming even when her character is fishing a bullet out of her husband's arm, to a hysterically deadpan Jesse Plemons, playing the awkward, heartbroken cop who lives next door.

Ragnarok still favors bathos over emotional culmination, jest over zest, toilet humor over deadpan humor, broad strokes over character - driven subplots, saucy rewrites over respectful updates on Norse mythos.

The Comanche does have a few funny moments and deadpan quips, and Depp even finds some chemistry with Hammer, but Tonto is mostly buried in a character who's as confused at the movie.

Though Winona Ryder made a bit of a splash in 1988 in Beetlejuice, in which she's hilariously deadpan (befitting a character who starts out more interested in death than life), she truly became a star when she landed the lead role in one of the most demented high - school comedies ever made.

For her performance as the deadpan employee, she received universal praise throughout the entire show, being referred to as one of the show's breakout character.

As a longtime character actor who has shined among ensemble casts (think: Juno's deadpan dad or Bob, a laid off white collar worker, in two of director Jason Reitman's Oscar - bait films), Whiplash co-star J.K. Simmons appreciated receiving the Spotlight Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

The key to appreciating any Wes Anderson film (memorable efforts as «Rushmore,» «The Royal Tenenbaums»), is to have the ability to either pick up on his clipped and funny dialogue (usually voiced by actors in a totally serious deadpan monotone), or somehow connect with his goofy situations and quirky characters that slip between incredibly believable and ridiculously surreal.

Favorites of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition (Cohen, Blu - ray, DVD), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, is a deadpan satire of modern life and social hypocrisy with characters, rich and poor alike, from a lively Paris suburb whose lives criss - cross and tangle with one another.

McCarthy is perfect at the deadpan delivery of insult jabs headed toward Bullock's character or any other character in the film.

Endlessly quotable and hilariously deadpan, this end - of - the - world movie benefits from its cast — including Julia Stiles, David Cross, and America Ferrera — and its characters» seemingly endless variations on navel - gazing selfishness.

Indeed, it's difficult to get worked up when the characters themselves show little emotion and deliver their lines in a strikingly deadpan, monotone manner, even when confronted with inappropriate sexual moments that Lanthimos seems to include just to make his audience uncomfortable.

In many ways, it recalls the Sparrow character he so brilliantly created for the «Pirates» franchise, from his headscarf to his deadpan reactions to his amusing brand of bumbling competence.

Tonto is not quite the loyal sidekick, drawn to be more of his own man, and one whose deadpan reactions and sarcastic remarks are a new addition by Depp to give a bit of comic nuance the longtime character, though one might slight Depp's performance as another of his many attempts to chew scenery in place of an honest portrayal.

(Better known for tough guy characters in Rollerball and Mission: Impossible, actor Jean Reno also displays his previously undisclosed talent for deadpan humor in this role as Martin's straight man.)

In truth, Deapool 2 definitely could have used bit more of Negasonic's trademark deadpan one - liners and it would have been fantastic if Yukio was given more character development.

Not that we totally identify with our deadpan sociopathic narrator and main character, but that's precisely what happens to Lou Ford, the clean - cut young deputy sheriff of Central City, Texas, (Casey Affleck, in another masterful performance to rank with his work in «Gone Baby Gone» and «The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford»), a small - town psycho with a taste for compulsive, 1950s pulp sadism (really dirty, dangerous stuff — let's say S&M without the safe word).

The character is weird, naturally, and the deadpan way that Jacobs plays it provides more humor than the character probably deserves.

The standout of the group is also the one we see most rarely in movies these days: Bergen lays into her character's wry aperçus with the impeccable timing and deadpan facial expressions that made her a comedic star on the sitcom «Murphy Brown.»

Harry Dean Stanton, the shambling, craggy - face character actor with the deadpan voice who became a cult favorite through his memorable turns in «Paris, Texas,» «Repo Man» and many other films and TV shows, died Friday at age 91.

It's a simple but eloquent character study, starring non-professional playing (almost) himself, and strikes a sweet, deadpan, oft - melancholic tone.

Wes Anderson's films are always lauded (or decried) for their impenetrable, intricate doll - house nature, in which ornate settings and whimsical characters are given to us with a deadpan sense of comic timing.

The connection, never syrupy, is subtly grounded, never interfering with the arch deadpan, but providing the driving force for both the character and his story.

Whether its Star - Lord's (Chris Pratt) man - child demeanor, Thor's deadpan one - liners or Rocket's (Bradley Cooper) crass Napoleonic antics, the essence of the characters is integrated brilliantly and adds another satisfying layer to Infinity War.

As a film, Don Verdean is rough around the edges, but filled with subtle character detail that plays well against the deadpan comedy.

At least the two performances of these characters are solid, with Gleeson going full speed with a near - manic portrayal of Stensland and with Church doing some fine deadpan as the casually sexist Grady.

Characters are all upraised by deadpan humor through oddball dialogue and mesmerizing acumen by the quirky cast.

Using deadpan humor and savage charm belying deep empathy for her characters, Miller's debut captures the angst, sexual rivalry, and escalating self - doubt of teenage life in America while announcing Miller as a fierce new voice.

The animation is lively and unusual, and the script is full of grace notes and genuinely funny moments, but what really makes the movie work is the characters, who are voiced with such intelligence, compassion, and deadpan humor that I found myself truly caring about them and whether or not they would survive their adventures.

Filled with deadpan humor and unforgettable characters, Batuman's semi-autobiographical debut is set in 1995, during endearingly awkward Selin's freshman year at Harvard.

While Glenister brilliantly voices the various accents of a wide cast of characters, including nuanced portrayals of Strike and Robin, he excels in his chillingly deadpan depiction of the serial murderer who stalks them.

Speaking of Geralt it's easy to write him off as another typically gruff hero with a voice so gravelly it could be used for making driveways, but he's actually quite a fascinating character, exhibiting a far more complex personality that you'd initially give him credit for, including some deadpan humour, genuine caring, interesting insights and much more.

The graphics were cute, giving way to a few character tropes that are found in mystery games and books, such as the hardened, deadpan head detective and the brightly colored main character.

The story progressively introduces even more characters, with secret organisation JP's (pronounced «jips»), and their members such as the kind nurse Otome, and deadpan computer genius Fumi.

Characters have deadpan expressions and awkward animation.