Perhaps the director must have thought he could have some fun with it and
generate easy laughs, and in turn it is more of a gimmick than anything else.
I also think some laughs were good, but I hate how Disney (and also Dreamworks) looks down on kids
with easy laughs and formulaic quirks in their characters, and how their stories in the end don't have to really hold up as the author here points out (found the same with Frozen).
The surprise of Get Out is how genuinely unsettling, surreal, and labyrinthine the story becomes as it plays out, Peele forgoing
easy laughs in order to convey the mounting discomfort of his hero, magnificently played by Daniel Kaluuya.
Simply put, Christianity is an easy target — a creative path of least resistance — and so comedians attack Christianity because it garners
easy laughs from people reading from the same hymn sheet page of The God Delusion.
But the fake socialist unrealism of Comrade Detective
transcends easy laughs, in large part thanks to its realistic grasp of the spiritual appeal and crisis of communism.
The vanadium battery's indefatigable nature echoes that of its creator, Skyllas - Kazacos, a single - minded researcher whose no - nonsense manner is frequently punctuated by an
unexpected easy laugh.
The Coen brothers» new movie, set in Hollywood in 1951,
brings easy laughs but dissipates from memory moments later, like the cheesy films to which it pays homage — or, perhaps, mocks.
Director Jay Roach (Meet the Fockers)
avoids easy laughs, and harnesses Moore's spot - on portrayal to find a balance between outrage and empathy for the pious hockey mom peddling a divisive evangelical version of the American Dream.
Your tolerance or attraction to the high level of cuteness will be the predominant factor of your enjoyment of this Disney concoction, which, with the exception of one split - second flatulence punctuation, is devoid of any sort of potty humor geared
toward easy laughs for the kids.
And, of course, the title of the film itself is played for
easy laughs when Darnell repeatedly asks James if he's hard.
The baby daddy plotline works for
delivering easy laughs and uncomplicated popcorn sentiment, but it does highlight Bridget newbie Patrick Dempsey as its weakest component.
While others may laugh hearing meek - looking Kate mouth off profane comebacks, and in one scene, show off her goods at a cemetery, it made me wince at Payne's inability to push for
easy laughs beyond the boundaries of the characterizations.
«The Weather Man» will struggle to find an audience, with so many of us
seeking easier laughs or more sympathetic tragedy after a long week at work.
One could be forgiven for assuming Dinklage's presence is more
about easy laughs, when in fact it is his character Charlie that provides much of the emotional heart of the film.
While commercial enough to go the distance, Rauch's caustic character sketch feels similarly over-stretched,
landing easy laughs over and over with the same joke: a twisted take on the sort of America's sweetheart even Tonya Harding couldn't tarnish.
I suppose those looking for a goofball comedy full
of easy laughs and memorable gross - out moments will be pleased with Road Trip enough to find it worthwhile.
Comedian Woody Allen often goes for
an easy laugh by inserting various outrageous statements into a parody, such as his takeoff on Kafka's Journals: «Getting through the night is becoming harder and harder.
He found instead an «open, vital man with
an easy laugh and a sense of the ridiculous as well as the divine, and I had to admire him in spite of my prejudice against preachers, especially Protestants, because he wasn't preaching his message so much as living it.»
And that, it seemed, had a lot to do with her relationship with Stephanie, an African - American woman in her early thirties with dyed red hair,
an easy laugh, and a wry manner.
I'm all for
the easy laugh myself but, I don't know, in my opinion giving birth is a sacred & beautiful right exclusive to women.
«You fix your own car, you fix your own faucet — anything,» she says with
an easy laugh.
She can't resist a good sample, a glass of red wine or sour margarita, a new HIIT class, French macarons, or
an easy laugh.
I am not sure if its my home cooking,
easy laugh (I love a sense of humor) or holistic lifestyle that makes them feel this way.
easy laugh, open minded, like to think I am quick witted (but you'll be the judge of that), sometimes a bit sarcastic.
Friends consider me to be fun loving and caring person with
an easy laugh.
More pluses: some of the writing is wonderful — smart and disciplined, willing to pass up
an easy laugh to help build character.
The scene could have been played for
easy laughs, but Ayoade uses it to expose Oliver's palpable sense of alienation.
And the movie cheats, to get
its easy laughs.
You're already likely to have seen a brief glimpse of the caricature Mike Tyson plays of himself, but there's a lot more to his role than just a cameo done for
an easy laugh, and he really brings a lot to the table.
It shows a desire to create a smart comedy and not just go for
the easy laughs.
Good for a quick and
easy laugh, but not the best comedy film ever made.
There is more talking than sex, and that talk's comic content is often dry as dust, mostly without
the easy laughs and obvious comic beats of, say, Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach or Agnès Jaoui.
All is not lost, though as
the easy laughs score big with this light comedic romp.
It leads to
some easy laughs, but the conflicts can be spotted a mile away by everybody but JB.
Instead, «Drowning Mona» goes for cheaper,
easier laughs (which don't come, sorry to say), and it never gives us a reason to care about the characters or the mystery at hand.
Although it certainly uses that template as a jumping - off point, «Dean» eventually settles into its own rhythm thanks to Martin's unique style, particularly the way in which he utilizes his simplistic drawings (often via split - screen) to illustrate Dean's current mood or just for
an easy laugh.
The line may be
an easy laugh, but to Josh it's a stinging slap in the face that forces him to reflect upon the recent vacation he's been taking from adulthood — the hat is a stylistic nod to his new, drastically younger friend Jamie (Adam Driver).
A lesser actor would have glitzed up and camped up Rudy for
easy laughs, but Cumming ---- witty, spontaneous, courageous, and moving — makes the character a mediocre drag queen performing in clubs because he lacks other options to survive.
If anything, West finds a way to work in even more, brutal action than the original, yet balancing that with the lighthearted camaraderie that makes for
easy laughs and investment in characters whether it's Lee and Barney bickering like brothers or Toll Road and Caesar going back and forth like a married couple.
Chiwetel Ejiofor is a charming man with
an easy laugh.
What's worse is that Dr. $'s music is incredibly tame by raunchy rap standards, so the creators couldn't even get any mileage out of the best chance for
easy laughs.
But it is also funny — always searchingly and innovatively so, and never settling for
an easy laugh.
Comedies like this one appeal to the teenager inside all of us (myself included), and are good for
easy laughs.
The screenplay by Michael Bacall (who also wrote the first film), Oren Uziel, and Rodney Rotham doesn't stop there; it doesn't just go for
the easy laugh.
The third act that departs Giant Country for Buckingham Palace is probably the funniest, but the fish - out - of - water routine goes for broad,
easy laughs and abruptly severs the sense of ethereal incredulity within the world of the giants.
The only idea kicked around was to try to stuff as many wildly stereotypical characters into the movie as possible in the hopes that their interaction would generate
some easy laughs.