Sentences with phrase «do slapstick»

If anything, man's link to his Neanderthal ancestry has been magnified by the big screen ever since The Three Stooges in the»30s (Chaplin did slapstick, but wasn't an idiot).

Well - done slapstick and trademark tastelessness stuff the package, starring Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid.

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Paul was mostly known for his slapstick style of comedy, sharing footage of himself doing stunts, telling jokes, and playing pranks.

It terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself.

O'Hara uses both incongruity and slapstick in the above line to help us see the shortness and fragility of life, as well as the absurd things we do and say to avoid being reminded of them.

«American Wedding» is rated R for non-stop crude humor (gags and references about sexual and other bodily functions), frequent use of strong sexual profanity, female and partial male nudity (done for laughs), simulated sex and some slapstick violence.

The drawn - out death of Fiona's father, a royal frog voiced by John Cleese, is a minor tour de force of pathos and slapstick, and there are some angry trees that do justice to the venerable cinematic tradition of angry trees.

traps the affable Ice Cube in a dismal kiddy slapstick saga that even his considerable charisma can do little to enhance.

Some scenes are almost slightly pantomime-esque with some slightly funny moments of comedy and slapstick which do lighten the mood (mainly at the start before the characters enter the war).

Honestly, if you think this is the best kung fu movie ever made, your brain will explode if you watch Drunken Master the original and there are a lot better kung fu movies than that, that don't constantly resort to slapstick without a moment of seriousness.

I suppose I'm an easy mark for low - brow humor and cringe - inducing pun play, but who doesn't appreciate a little slapstick from time to time?

Jim Carrey does pull off some impressive physical slapstick, but it's all got a been - there, done - that kinda vibe.

Downey has a perfect ear for the Chaplin accent, the way it climbed from Cockney to minced posh, and a perfect boot and fist for the slapstick; the one thing he doesn't have is an eye on his own brilliance.

Not only does he genuinely look like Charlie but he manages to mimic the moves, walk, facial expressions and even the comedic slapstick Charlie amazed us with in his movies.

The Guardian continues the praise for Whedon's direction, noting his «keen ear for comedy, a no - nonsense approach to ditching the gags that don't work, a deft hand for slapstick and an eagerness to use it.»

But my main issue was that the story didn't draw me in enough, the uselessness of the Warriors Three, and the borderline slapstick humor mid way during the film.

What transpires from there can only be described as a series of attempts to keep upping the ante on gross - outs, one liners, animal gags, and slapstick that doesn't add up to any kind of elaborate comedy.

Frustratingly, tantalizingly close to a modern satirical masterpiece, WALL · E's humanism is corrupted by slapstick that verges on nihilistic and a final moment that tries to have it both ways when it's done too good a job of painting a bleaker picture.

Goldie Hawn, «The First Wives Club» Perhaps the biggest injustice on this list is that Hawn, a triple threat wildly gifted in the slapstick department, did not win any of the awards her character Elise owns in this classic 1996 comedy.

This doesn't mean «Lincoln» is entirely free of heavy - handed moments — an early encounter between Lincoln and some young soldiers verges on the corny and there's some near - slapstick stuff involving spivvy lobbyists.

Will this movie, playing to young viewers who don't know the Stooges at all, look off - puttingly old - fashioned or so bizarrely slapstick - intense that it seems as up - to - the - minute in its comedy as anything from Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell?

The Darwin Awards isn't without merit, as it does feature a few nice performers, a zestful energy, and an occasional burst of cleverness that actually seems genuinely inspired, but all in all, perhaps Taylor should have trust his characters and interesting premise more, instead of throwing everything at us he can muster in terms of celebrity - dropping and forced slapstick shenanigans.

Diaz does ditsy - feisty well and Cruise is watchable in self - deprecating action - slapstick mode.

It's heavy on the slapstick, but against all odds, a sentimental Christmas streak does shine through, even though Kevin doesn't seem all that upset that his Paris - bound family has accidentally left him behind for the holidays.

It's kind of nice that Talt doesn't resort to slapstick - y hijinks or gross - out humor; his screenplay, however functional the characterizations, is at least rooted in the interactions and recognizably human frustrations of those characters.

If you're known for making people laugh with catch phrases and slapstick, it's hard to do anything else.

in toto) that, while nothing special, do offer in the earlygoing a few pleasant moments with Paul on the job presumably excised for humanizing the inelegant Mr. Blart and not containing enough slapstick.

Although Jingle All the Way is mocking the rabid fervor for materialism that has permeated nearly every aspect of Christmas, it does become a victim of its own skewering by trying to produce as lucrative a comedic vehicle for Schwarzenegger as possible by playing things as formulaic and slapstick - y as possible.

It's hard to get a handle on the tone of the piece, jarring as it does back and forth between slapstick and mordancy in a way too clumsy to be fruitful.

As crass as these visual gags are, they didn't offend me nearly as much as the apparent need for continuous slapstick in every scene, I suppose just to remind us that this is a comedy.

Most of them are junk — forgettable slapstick fare involving goofy people doing goofy things in the name of goofiness — yet every...

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

The slapstick acting wouldn't feel so forced if there was proper plot to be satirized but here, for no reason, it seems it's trying to remind you that it's not taking itself seriously — you don't need that reminder.

It veers, dizzily, between slapstick scatalogical comedy and poignant existential philosophy, doing so with the sort of invention generally credited to silent - film clowns.

It's been done to death, from dark stripper murdering satire (Very Bad Things) to slapstick throwaway»80s fare (Bachelor Party), and depicting a bunch of men getting drunk can't exactly be done in too many fresh ways.

Rarely do sequels equal or exceed expectations but this comedy does, offering broad slapstick that's guaranteed to elicit laughter from small children and their parents.

Payne, who never met pathos he didn't feel inclined to puncture with slapstick humor, has somehow made his best drama and his worst comedy rolled into one.

Why it's worth watching: Razor - sharp dialogue, witty one - liners, daft slapstick scenarios... there isn't a type of comedy that Life of Brian doesn't wrangle into its story.

While Vince and Willa do an okay job as the American antagonists (with Kevin Kline doing double duty as both Vince and Rod), it's really the wacky British spirit (and slapstick comedy) that keeps this film alive.

Here, Frost, does some of his best «slapstick - fighting» by bodyslamming and ripping arms and legs off only to bludgeon each robot with their now missing appendage.

While the movie does have a handful of verbal puns, sight gags, and slapstick humor that fly, based on Carrey and Daniels» commitment, a number of gags fall to the floor, the opening catheter gag for instance.

Though the slapstick mostly flounders, the film is even less successful when it calls upon these three to be the villains of the piece, as it does later on.

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.

Although the script isn't exactly top - notch, it is refreshing to see that it doesn't dissolve into a hideous slapstick mess as is often the case with recent comedy.

by Walter Chaw A half - baked, underfed comedy of body function that doesn't even manage the wit to successfully honour the threadbare conventions of its idiot slapstick sub-genre, Along Came Polly isn't offensive so much as apocalyptically tiresome.

Alas, Binder tries to tread the line between philosophy and farce, satire and slapstick, and with so many contrasting story devices, the imbalance of mood finally does the film in as a potentially intelligent piece of entertainment.

Slapstick is a lost art and some of what they do is funny in that department.

Or they should have gone full blown slapstick instead of going the route they did and failing miserably at balancing both.

He either doesn't have the opportunity or inclination to follow it through here, but he does treat those deaths with dignity and respect, putting the slapstick spree on pause to mourn the losses before revving back up.