Sentences with phrase «excuse for a comedy»

Maybe it's because Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, and Mel Gibson are still eminently watchable, even in a poor excuse for a comedy like this one.

It's a sad, angry excuse for a comedy that contains exactly one chuckle and infinitely more cringing.

Playing chicken with Ramis's latest unendurably dreary excuse for comedy proved more hazardous to health than chancing it on the tracks.

«Year One» — Harold Ramis's latest unendurably dreary excuse for comedy — concludes Nick Rogers» weekly look back at the 52 worst films of 2000 - 2009.

Not exact matches

The film works up to a totally conventional ending: It's never much of a comedy or an exploration of the phone - sex phenomenon, and it often seems to be just an excuse for Madonna, John Turturro, Quentin Tarantino and other Lee pals to make cameo appearances and mug for the camera.

But however you size it up, the film is essentially an excuse to tap into the burgeoning market for retro romantic comedy — represented, most recently, by the «Sex and the City» movie and «Bride Wars.»

The whole experience isn't quite as good as actually sitting down and watching a movie with Wright — whose clear enthusiasm for film and gabbing about it is pretty much unquestionable at this point — but it does make for a pretty good excuse to bust out one of our best comedies since 2000 and give it another watch.

Archer is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees, who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage, and betray each other for personal gain.

If there's a widespread problem in modern American comedies, it's that readiness to give up a good joke for some sorry excuse for a moral about family values, friendship, being yourself, yada yada yada.

Friday, July 25 «Archer» Fox Booth Signing Press Room: 3:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Panel: 5 p.m. — 6 p.m.: Screening and Q&A: «Archer» is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain.

But she's pretty hilarious in it, and I do enjoy the movie as a whole, which is a pretty great excuse for a lot of solid singing and dancing, and some fair to middling comedy.

That's what I thought too — Fey, after all, is one of the funniest women working in film today and the trailer certainly suggests that WTF (yes, I'm afraid that title is just an excuse for a rude acronym) is a comedy.

The sci - fi set - up is mostly an excuse for Woody to indulge some fairly slapstick physical comedy revolving around a man quite literally out of time and place.

Danny Collins is the sort of thing that, 25 or 30 years ago, would've come out every week: a low - budget, low - stakes excuse for good actors to have some fun with a smart director and script (by Dan Fogelman, who wrote the busy, AARP - centric comedy Last Vegas).

Perry, then, has an excuse for this sorry comedy (which he dutifully returned to finish), but director Reginald Hudlin, co-star Elizabeth Hurley, and especially writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn remain accountable.

«Jay Chandrasekhar helms this wacky vehicle with all the conviction of a defective police siren... feels more like an excuse for Chandrasekhar and his fratboy Broken Lizard comedy troupe players to merge and serve up their pet project just to kill some time.»

Too many times, the scene plays out not for good comedy or with any real relevance to the plot and characters, but rather as an excuse to have Wilson or Vaughn lay on their comedy shtick — together or separate — and calling it a day.

«The Green Hornet,» directed by Michel Gondry, is such a feeble excuse for an action comedy that it's already taken pride of place in my upcoming worst - movies - of - 2011 list.

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