While it's a relief that depiction of Tommy Wiseau, failed artist, and The Room, his failed art, isn't a sneering bad - movie podcast come to life, it's also disappointing to see the movie slip into a routine
of easy jokes and easier outs.
Honestly, the worst part about this news seems to be that we can no longer
make easy jokes about Whedon killing off fan - favorite characters.
On top of that are
easy jokes like Renzo's nerdy awkwardness (his mother's overbearing, haha), Walter's British twee and lizard - like face (look at those glasses and that smile, lolz), and Jo's granny demeanor (look at that pink dress and wig, LAUGH DAMMIT).
And unlike all those pushy CGI-fests of the last few years that obnoxiously show off their pop culture smarts (meaning that their makers watch the same TV shows and listen to the same CDs as most of the audience) by shoehorning in hit songs just to
score easy jokes and points, Happy Feet ingeniously and endearingly makes them Necessary To The Plot.
A
few easy jokes can be forgiven for the overall quality, even if «Red Oaks» doesn't feel quite as essential as other upcoming shows like «Fargo,» «The Knick» and «The Returned.»
And I won't even discuss the ending, where the movie becomes surprisingly self - referential and takes some
painfully easy jokes.
Somewhere in there, there is a
very easy joke waiting to be made about Wikipedia getting cited by a guy who can't be bothered to fact - check.
Anyhow, now we have to deal with the new Blu - ray of his crowning cinematic achievement in the wake of a truly embarrassing scandal, leading to all kinds
of easy jokes that we will refrain from indulging in here.
This is
an easy joke on community college education, but it is not far from the mark.
Despite
the easy jokes that can be made, it's an impressive piece of architecture, shame about being damaged.
The basketball gods like to laugh, but they're going for
the easiest jokes.
After two points in their first two Group C matches, they had to rely on Spain and Croatia not to arrange a 2 - 2 draw that would have seen both through (and, to make
the easy joke, how ironic would it have been if Italy had been knocked out via match - fixing?).
We're two movies into this character's adventures, and it already has become apparent that Deadpool only deals in
the easy jokes.
In the most comedic part, Wilson nails
his easy jokes, every one of which underscores the selfishness, immaturity, unviability of his Washington Nationals jock.
It's
an easy joke, but the idea that they're on the defensive leads to a different sort of fun than when they were the cops in charge.
It hardly makes up for the stupidity on display in the rest of the film, however, because «Vacation» goes for the cheap and
easy joke every time, and although some work well, most of them are so lame that it'll make you wish the franchise stayed dead after «Vegas Vacation.»
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber have written a terrific adaptation of the Sestero book that never goes for
the easy joke but always is aware this is first and foremost a human comedy.
The Little Death doesn't go for
the easy jokes, and
Olivia Munn is better than usual, but not as great as she is on HBO's «The Newsroom,» while the rest of the cast fails to do much with a script that goes for
the easy joke far too often.
However, the holding back on
easy jokes makes the ending so much funnier.
«Spy» rarely goes for
an easy joke; there are so many wonderful setups and payoffs.
The crime, quickly exposed, made news worldwide; it made Harding notorious, reviled,
an easy joke.
The easy joke would be to call Bosses horrible, but it's not.
Yet, unlike the superficial, TV - like Mermaids, which had more than its fair share of one - liners and
easy jokes, Gas Food Lodging cuts deep into its characters, capturing the essence of these women's lives.
But even
the easier jokes are delivered with enthusiasm, and accompanied by creatively gruesome R - rated carnage.
MacIntyre plays these characters and their deeds for laughs, from
the easy jokes of slang and cultural references within the dialogue to the groan - based humor of the movie's overkill - happy murders.
The screenplay by Michael Showalter and director David Wain goes for
the easy jokes, but it does so after doing plenty of homework.
It seems
the easy joke at the expense of milquetoast Max early in the film when he declares before a room of hardened operatives (including beefy 23 (The Rock) and the Chief (Alan Arkin)-RRB- that their enemies are bad people, but people first.
We see the trailer for the fictional 1986 horror movie in which Amanda appeared as Nany in this movie's opening moments, and it's exactly the sort of broad, intentionally bad junk that makes for
an easy joke.
«Last Vegas» takes
the easy joke at nearly every opportunity, and it is exactly what makes the movie work.
The only thing that's missing is a Katamari Damacy reference, but that is perhaps too
easy a joke to make.
Like everything by Stingel, it sounds like
an easy joke but looks comforting.