Sentences with phrase «even funny film»

It's an exquisite, wise and even funny film, easily the best of the year.

Not exact matches

Considering the video was part of a VHS feature film (also called R.I.O.T.), it's a little unfair to judge it on its stand - alone merit, but even with a deeper context, dance - offs are always unintentionally funny, just ask Kevin Bacon..

A lot of people I know call this one of the funniest movies of all time but I can easily name 10 funnier films than this, like Caddyshack, Dumb and Dumber or even Abduction.

Yet as Funny Games and even his latest film, Amour, prove, Haneke is a genre filmmaker at heart, no matter how hard he might wish to deny it.

But even though I found the last half of the film a bit draggy - too much plot getting in the way of the fun - there were enough funny bits of dialog coming out of Brand's mouth and enough of Helen Mirren being... Helen Mirren, to give this a marginal passing grade - you could do far worse if you're looking for a bit of light humor.

Coneheads is a missed opportunity and even though there are some funny cast members here, they are wasted on - screen and can't save this film.

For the most part, the film just motors along without any real high points, while Wilde's derogatory views on women seems even more dated and out - of - place, rather than being particularly funny.

Despite this, though, a curious feeling envelopes the film — like it could be even funnier, if only he and the cast were really allowed to let fly.

Most critics found the film funny and entertaining when it screened at Toronto last fall, and audiences will finally get to see it on June 7 (and in even more theaters on June 21).

Even though it is now 6 years old this film is still bitingly funny.

The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.

Only some of these digressions are funny (like the way Laura Branigan's «Gloria» becomes Stant's personal soundtrack), but Gillespie mostly lands the film's tricky tonal balancing act, hitting nostalgic pleasure points throughout even when he's underlining or undermining the cruelty of Harding's victimization.

Hopefully this film will further broaden Wain's appeal (esp after Role Models) so he can make an even edgier and funnier film like The Ten in the near future.

The best part of Lars von Trier's fascinating, engaging and often didactic Nymphomaniac is that, despite the sometimes - grim tone and bleak color palate, it's an extremely funny film, playful, even.

This is a sharp little film, smart and funny and bitter and yes, even genuinely engaging as a mystery.

And it is exactly how these big, thick destruction films should be done: the script is boisterously funny, the action sequences have real flair and sweep, and the central human - primate friendship is even quite moving at points.

The good news is that Kidman's the best thing in this rather subdued film: sexy, coy and even a bit funny.

I'm a guy and not even that big of a fan of musicals and I thought this film was beautiful, charming, uplifting, and funny (Bog's mom has some fantastic one - liners), with a good message to boot.

Some funny scenes, but this film is entirely predictable as a rom - com, even down to the chase scene at the end.

It is much more like a comedy film than an action movie, and the comedy isn't even funny.

Featuring Aubrey Plaza (Funny People), Mark Duplass (Humpday), and «New Girl» star Jake M. Johnson, this has all the makings of a quirky comedy, even if there ends up not actually being any time traveling in the film.

Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Michael Showalter's unassuming romantic comedy is one of the year's funniest films, featuring some truly jawdropping one - liners and set pieces, but it's also so completely naked - hearted and raw that you'll frequently be weeping even as you laugh.

It's a funny film whose subject matter remains timely even a decade later.

Writer - director Judd Apatow follows up his smash debut film, The 40 - Year - Old Virgin with another successful comedy, Knocked Up, which may even best the out - and - out laughs quotient of his very funny previous effort.

But over all, this was a brilliant film, probably the funniest film of the year so far except from Deadpool, it kills you inside and thrills you until the end credits roll up (which even then still is joyful).

The funniest line of Beerfest doesn't even come during the film itself.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

The film opens with seniors playing ridiculously extreme «pranks» that are not even remotely funny, like letting a meth - fueled horse run around the school or replacing a prized baseball bat with a laptop playing pornography.

Predictably from the director of Love Exposure, the film is about a half - hour too long, but it's also heartfelt, funny, and even cute.

This is a sore spot for me as a result of there's a funny story within the film that isn't within the film now as a result of — I'm more than likely no longer even allowed to mention this — Fox made me take it out.

One of the curious aspects of the film is that even though it's more of a character study than an outright comedy, that character is a legendary comic who's not really that funny.

The only parts of the film I found even remotely funny all involved Zac Efron's character Teddy, who is first an advisor to the girls of Kappa Nu until they vote to dump him (by a quick texting session, of course).

It's not even that the film shifts wildly in tone as much as the fact that none of those tones work at all: the horror parts aren't scary and, surprisingly for Smith, the comedy bits aren't funny.

And the scene that immediately follows is not even remotely funny — it's straight out of a war film.

The first film — which Genndy Tartakovsky also directed — was cute and harmless, but this one is even more consistently funny and crammed with inspired sight gags.

Bridget Jones used to be adorable and charismatic in the first film, but now it can be irritating to see her behave so much like a retard; besides, the movie has a lot of clichés and doesn't manage to be consistently funny, even if it does have its hilarious moments and some charm.

The film is intentionally funny, even though it is not a comedy, and Refn has fun toying with the viewer, imbuing ordinary moments with an aura of menace.

Additionally strange, the underrated Peter Hyams, who did such a great job remaking Narrow Margin in 1990 with Gene Hackman and Anne Archer remade this film with Michael Douglas in the later afterwards and actually came up with a less memorable film that was worse, forgettable and not even funny.

Dennis Hopper had some of the funniest lines, but overall I couldn't even enjoy this film for laughs.

He infuses even the film's funniest scenes with palpable tension.

''... impressive is the chemistry of the two leads... their interactions are funny, gutsy, and keep the momentum of the film going, even when it's time for a breather from the high - falutin» action pieces.»

«Dakota is funny, sharp, talented and there wasn't one day in three and a half months of shooting — 70 days of filming — when he was even in the slightest bit annoying!»

But while Edgar Wright's 2004 debut was a blisteringly funny homage to zombie movies, there's yet to be another film that even comes close to matching its genre - bending wit and sense of fun.

The trailers have been very funny so far and feature plenty of R - rated shenanigans that will hopefully be even funnier in the film.

What You Need To Know: There were many festival films this year that have impressed, even wowed us, but if there was one single film that boasted the unique attribute of making us long for the moment we'd be able to watch it again, it was the warm, human, funny, uniquely Coens - y «Inside Llewyn Davis» (here's our [A] Cannes review).

And even though it's a comedic film, I had to tone down the «funny» in order to play this bad guy.

Directed by Edgar «Spaced» Wright, co-written with Wright by Simon «Spaced» Pegg (who also stars as Shaun), and featuring other comic stars from «Spaced» (Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson), as well as from «Black Books» (Dylan Moran, Tamsin Grieg) and even «the Office» (Lucy Davis), «Shaun of the Dead» is like a who's who of talent from the most cutting - edge British TV sit - coms of recent times, which is why it is much funnier than British comic films like «Bridget Jones» Diary», Johnny English and Love, Actually — and unlike those other films, «Shaun of the Dead» is nightmarish for all the right reasons.

Johnson stars as a conservative movie star who gets caught in a sprawling sci - fi conspiracy, but the film isn't funny, it's not insightful, and even the craziest moments don't feel crazy enough.

Thor: Ragnarok is quite possibly the funniest Marvel Cinematic Universe film to date — besting even the two Guardians of the Galaxy films in laughs and silliness.

even though the film is very funny throughout.