Sentences with phrase «directors of slapstick»

From the writers and directors of slapstick comedy «Vacation», comes another ridiculous film in the vein of Steve Carell / Tina Fey's «Date Night».

From the writers and directors of slapstick comedy «Vacation», comes another ridiculous film in the vein of Steve... Read More

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To say the director butchered Tim Burton's established vision of Gotham City with his campy, slapstick characters is an understatement.

As the lead actor and director of «City Lights», everything, down to the slapstick comedy, or the quiet and delicate dramatic moments, «City Lights» is a blast.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

Continuing to turn out box - office bonanzas like Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Edwards briefly jumped on the comedy bandwagon of the mid -»60s with the slapstick epic The Great Race (1965), which the director dedicated to his idols, «Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy.»

Disney's tried - and - true slapstick material (est. 1959) is here given a heinously unimaginative interpretation by five screenwriters and a director who manages to squander the gifts of an absurdly overqualified supporting cast.

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.

Like the abominable «Napoleon Dynamite,» director Jared Hess» second feature will doubtless capture the hearts and minds of 12 - year - old boys everywhere, even if Nacho Libre sacrifices the earlier film's aggressive mean - spiritedness in favor of gentle slapstick lunacy.

Director Will Gluck, who penned the screenplay along with Rob Lieber, quickly establishes the production's overtly slapstick tone right from the start, as a quartet of singing birds encircling the iconic Columbia Pictures «Torch Lady» end up as the dazed victims of a hit - and - run by an out - of - control Peter Rabbit (Corden).

It was Steve Martin who said, «Comedy isn't pretty,» but it's Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the writer - directors here, who prove it; this is the Dawn of the Dead of slapstick.

Director Miguel Arteta (Cedar Rapids; Youth in Revolt) maximizes old - school slapstick appeal and takes a keen interest in the concept of Murphy's Law.

Based on this trailer, this is definitely something different from Scorsese (we're not sure we ever expected to see a shot of a dog reacting to a slapstick pratfall from the director of Mean Streets), though he's never been the sort of director you could pin down to one genre.

Director Stephen Chow has made better films in the past («Shaolin Soccer,» «Kung Fu Hustle»), and although his latest effort is chockful of brilliant slapstick humor (from Shan's failed assassination attempt, to Show Luo's half - man / half - octopus cooking his own tentacles), it's marred by some awful CGI.

I find most insulting of all about this gag - a-thon (not «gag» as in «hardy - har - har» slapstick... I mean more like the two - girls - one - cup kind) the fact that the MANY producers and directors could not make this thing work better with an ensemble like this.

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud excel in pleasing the fans of Despicable Me with much of the same spy action and slapstick minion comedy seen in the first film, only amped up to greater heights for this highly anticipated sequel.

Like its predecessor, «Paddington 2» is a clever delight of visual invention and wit; this sequel draws particularly from the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for its ingenious slapstick action set pieces, while the screenplay by director Paul King and Simon Farnaby packs the dialogue with fun wordplay and tiny details that pay off in major comic ways.

Considering the almost compulsively static aesthetic of Allen's recent output, it's hard to believe that the director could ever have made such a frenetic slapstick farce as Take the Money and Run.

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The strongest moments are when slapstick recalls the antics of Wallace & Gromit, but the script's packed with quips, ably delivered not just by the inspired parental pairing of Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins (their kids are thinly written, as stroppy or awestruck; Julie Walters» housekeeper is part Mrs Doubtfire, part Mrs Overall) but also by a sterling supporting cast culled from Peep Show, Spy and Sightseers by ex-Mighty Boosh director Paul King.

«Not every family film with literary roots can aspire to the comic, creative, and dramatic heights of Paddington or Paddington 2, but director and co-writer Will Gluck shows a similar understanding of how to balance slapstick, wit, and the tugging of heart strings in equal measure» — Andrew Parker, The Gate

It's a measure of just how flat - footed «Cross» is that director Rob Cohen tries to shock us with this prologue, then plays the bowl of fingers for slapstick laughs not five minutes later.

Continuing his witty live - action adaptation of Michael Bond's series of whimsical children's books, writer / director Paul King, teaming with co-writer Simon Farnaby, carry on the elaborately endearing slapstick silliness, replete with imaginative interludes and inventive, colorful sets.

Director and co-writer Paul King includes a few big slapstick moments, but they arise naturally out of the character's unfamiliarity with the civilized world, and only one brief burp / fart joke enters the proceedings.

Director David Zucker resorts to his trademark slapstick, silly skits and sight gags to poke fun unfairly at not merely Moore but a host of liberal causes, including global warming, nationalized healthcare and gay rights.

That's the message at the heart of writer - director Jeff Baena's debut Life After Beth, which begins its life as a sensitive indie comedy with a winning deadpan shtick and ends up salivating and snarling after developing an appetite for riotous, blood - splattered slapstick.

Indeed, the comedian's favoured director Larry Charles (TV's Curb Your Enthusiasm) returns, as does his uneasy combination of slapstick silliness, gross - out gags, juvenile jests, celebrity cameos and political parody, in a film that effortlessly resembles the unruly ridiculousness of his preceding pieces.

A typically colourful, good - natured and silly romp from director - producer - legend Tsui Hark, this historical - romantic - slapstick comedy takes a time - honoured romantic storyline and spins it into a lot of daft...

He's one of the strangest directors working today; his films are defined by crazy ideas and even crazier performances and crazy slapstick at the most inopportune times to cut the tension.

«The Sweetest Thing» shows some charm initially, but the minute Christina and her pal Courtney (Applegate) hit the road in pursuit of Peter, director Roger («Cruel Intentions») Kumble's movie abandons all sense for scatology, maggots and strained, amateurishly executed slapstick about urinals and oral sex.

If sibling directors Paul and Chris Weitz, best known for the slapstick teen comedy AMERICAN PIE, were looking to establish themselves as more mature filmmakers, they succeeded handily with this adaptation of UK author Nick (High Fidelity) Hornby's 1998 novel of the same title.

It's a messy casserole of Avengers promotion and crossover frippery, shoehorning in unnecessary supporting characters and dual archvillains, devolving its hero to the shallow dickweed he was at the start of the first movie just to generate some character conflict, throwing in a little slapstick martial arts so its director can have an onscreen star moment alongside a sexy A-lister...

Working with a suitably drab desaturated Super-16 palette, first - time director Fabrice Du Welz draws heavily on the macabre domestic slapstick of Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the rural paranoia of Straw Dogs and Deliverance for this unsettling male - anxiety fantasy, striking the right balance between grim sadism and grotesque comedy.