Sentences with phrase «do as sidekicks»

Speaking of pals, previous scene stealers Eddie Murphy and, especially, Antonio Banderas are given nothing new to do as sidekicks Donkey and Puss in Boots.

Not exact matches

Conversation can suffer a slow death because the sidekick you don't know as well isn't as keen on getting to know you.

Ben: And we also, and I don't wan na get waxed too sentimental here but we're also very lucky to have Brock with us and here as our podcast sidekick because you have kind of like an anniversary this week as well Brock right?

The catch is that Batman, as a way to mess with his naive sidekick, did the unveiling after Robin had already kissed her / him.

Even though he's hoofing the same animal - sidekick territory here as he did in Mulan, Murphy dominates the dialogue, portraying a donkey who's as motormouthed as he's supposed to be stubborn, the perfect foil to Myers» anti-social, Scots - accented Shrek (quite why Myers insists on repeatedly foisting this fake - Caledonian twang on us is a mystery, but, what the hell, it works well enough).

And he's the closest we get to complex: Swinton is basically Yoda without the humour, while poor Chiwetel Ejiofor has nothing to do but stamp and scowl as her sturdy sidekick Mordo.

And Luc Besson sidekick Pierre Morel tries to do for Sean Penn what he did for Liam Neeson in Taken: The Gunman, as mentioned above, drops the star of Milk and Mystic River deep into the Republic of Asskickistan.

Silver lining: Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander, whose plucky German car mechanic Gaby Teller joins Furiosa and Ilsa Faust, if to a lesser degree, as heroines in action franchises this year who don't exist simply to operate as eye - candy sidekicks to their male co-stars.

There's even Sauncho Smilax (a bracing Benicio Del Toro) to play Panza to Doc's Private D.Q. (Del Toro doesn't figure as much in the film, but in the book his resemblance to another sidekick he played in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is quite pronounced).

Kate Beckinsale does her best, and certainly achieves more as the sidekick than she did as the lead in the awful Underworld; Richard Roxburgh is very over the top in a boring kinda way; and David Wenham is the only person that manages to make the most out of the very limited script they had.

Joining them in their endeavor is Chris Hemsworth, whose role as a moronic sidekick is an insult to everything he has done in the past.

Todd is being described as being a «compassionate, sweet, smarter - than - average man with biting wit» who definitely doesn't consider himself just a sidekick to Gently but rather thinks that he is «just flat out better than Dirk at a lot of things.»

Hopefully you won't miss the doctor's sidekick as she doesn't play much of a role.

The movie marks the promising directorial debut of Beantown native Ben Affleck who cast his baby - faced brother Casey in the lead role of Patrick Kenzie and doe - eyed Michelle Monaghan as the private eye's sidekick / girlfriend, Angie Gennaro.

It's wearying, the endless scenes of Peter weeping piteously; exhausting when the standard pussy - whipped, sarcastic best friend (Bill Hader) does the standard sidekick in a scatological two - step tango; and just woeful when Paul Rudd makes his perfunctory appearance as a burner beach bum with no other function than to be to this little ejaculate of flicks what Rob Schneider is to Happy Madison joints.

Can't be Jason Statham in the lead, though, he's actually pretty badass, even though he's doing a poor man's Aragorn... Likewise, John Rhys - Davies is clearly cashing a paycheck by playing a watered down Gimli with a touch of Gandalf, but he's okay... Leelee Sobieski and Claire Forlani suck for sure, but at least they're easy on the eyes... Ron Pearlman is wasted in the nothing role of a sidekick who buys it halfway through, but he does what he can with what little he's got to work with... On paper, the idea of Burt Reynolds as the King is priceless, but he's not hilariously bad, he just looks bored and vaguely annoyed throughout...

The supporting cast do well to play normal opposite his hilariously inappropriate behaviour — Jamie Bell and Imogen Poots are great as his smart sidekick and a supportive female officer, while Eddie Marsan gives a wonderful against - type performance as Bruce's spineless friend, whom he drugs into dancing with fairy lights in Amsterdam.

French's shtick is strictly to get laughs at his inane behavior, which might be fine for a jovial sidekick, but as the man every woman can only dream about, the suit just doesn't fit, no matter how many times his would - be wife changes it.

Doing his best impression of a classic character actor in the Gabby Hayes mold, a scraggly - bearded Bill Pullman stars as the title character, a lifelong Old West sidekick who finds himself on his own after his legendary compadre (Peter Fonda) is killed by cattle rustlers.

I first saw Mark L. Lester's Commando as a young boy and even then I was rather surprised that Arnold Schwarzenegger's eponymous hero, John Matrix, didn't get together with his reluctant sidekick, Cindy (Rae Dawn Chong).

The con's good and beautifully handled — it's a shame Edmund Lowe doesn't have more scenes, but Frank McHugh's great as Powell's sidekick — but it confuses the film's effectiveness.

Excerpted as a flashback in the actual film, it's fun to see in full (who doesn't want to watch Dave Foley functioning as costumed sidekick?)

Chiwetel Ejiofor spends most of the movie slumming it as Mordo, one of the Ancient One's underlings, never given enough to do to graduate to sidekick.

There's a bevy of supporting characters — John Goodman's goateed mobster and Pruitt Taylor Vince as a cop sidekick — who don't have any real weight.

Olga Kurylenko does good work as his unwilling sidekick; Bill Smitrovich and Will Patton add flavor as a hot - and - cold team of CIA operatives.

Not only do we get the always enjoyably oily Malcolm McDowell as a vaguely Trump - ish autocrat who runs the race; Manu Bennett as a stoic yet dryly funny bad - ass hero; Marci Miller as his plucky sidekick (of sorts); Folake Olowofoyeku as a maniacal rock star who mows down on her owns fans; Anessa Ramsey as an insane evangelist who does the same to her own flock; Burt Grinstead (wonderfully manic) as a genetically enhanced, sexually confused, super-muscular man - child; and veteran character actor Yancy Butler as the furious leader of several ill - fated race protesters.

It's nice that Tonto isn't relegated to obvious sidekick status as he was in the 1950s TV series, but he might as well be since he is given nothing interesting to do.

The supporting performers all do nice work - particularly memorable are an aloof Cheri Oteri as the town's mayor, Dabney Coleman as the police chief, Michael G. Hagerty (of TV's «Friends») as a henchman, and Andy Dick as Claw's loony sidekick.

Sebastian Stan, who plays Captain America's sidekick - turned - adversary Bucky, spoke to We Got This Covered and gave his thoughts on whether or not he wants to see his character take up the patriotic mantle, as he did in the comics.

Wood adds a lively presence as Diesel's sidekick, until he is whisked off - screen for far too long; Leslie is given nothing more to do than show up and, occasionally, emote effectively.

It's a film released by a major studio that doesn't see a gay character as a joke, a sidekick, or an outsider.

Yogi's diminutive sidekick Boo Boo (a nasal Justin Timberlake in a role we can only assume was offered to him long before The Social Network made him a «serious» actor) serves his comedic purpose well, as does nature documentarian and love interest Rachel (a half - hearted Anna Farris) who bonds with Smith over their geeky shared love of nature.

McCarthy, as she always does, went big all night in the host's chair, whether mocking science deniers (and beating up Jennifer Aniston) in a fake ad for gravity skeptics, yelling at Kimmel's sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez for not dressing up in silly costumes with her as had been supposedly decided, or dutifully greeting her three guests in a succession of said costumes.

Al received the same Naval training as Dirk, so when the fights begin, Al can hold his own, instead of running around screaming as most sidekicks would do.

Among trucks, the Toyota Tacoma earned only two stars for driver protection - as did the Geo Tracker, Suzuki Sidekick and Nissan Truck - the lowest driver scores in the test.

- A Guest Post by Neal Litherland posted at ideatrash, saying, «Neal has done some freelance work for me, as well as writing a story for Sidekicks!

This episode examines how female sidekicks and companions in games are often designed to function as glorified gatekeepers, helpless burdens, and ego boosters, a pattern that works to reinforce oppressive notions about women as the ones in need of protection and men as the ones in control, who take action and do the protecting.

This pattern of female sidekicks who serve more as gameplay devices, door openers, and ego boosts than as people is a design approach rooted in the idea of games as power fantasy; players get to feel powerful and important, sometimes issuing orders that are obeyed without hesitation or doubt, sometimes being told that they're doing a great job.

It's not nearly as common in these scenarios for the male player character to offer emotional support to their female sidekick, to tell her that she's doing a great job.

Dixie returned to lead the game with her sidekick being Kiddie Kong, also known as «The character you don't play as.»

The sidekicks in Fallout 4 offer plenty of color commentary as you play, but it doesn't have any gameplay effect.

His AI is very well done and will go down as one of the best sidekicks we have seen in a game this generation.

Just as DKC2 took DK's sidekick Diddy and made him the star, DKC3 does the same by putting Dixie Kong in the spotlight.

We know the events of Todd's death have already taken place before Arkham Asylum, as before the fight with Bane in Asylum Joker comments on how he'd murdered Jason and that Batman could do with a new sidekick.