Sentences with phrase «family comedy»
A "family comedy" refers to a type of entertainment, such as TV shows or movies, that is meant to be enjoyed by people of all ages, including children and adults. It usually contains humor and storytelling that is suitable for everyone in the family, with the intention of providing laughs and enjoyment to appeal to all members of a household. Full definition
Kids around ages 6 or 7 and older will be OK watching this animated family comedy.
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This film makes up for where it seems low on imagination with heart and time - tested principles of family comedy.
If you are thinking this is the usual recipe for the annual dysfunctional family comedy — you are right.
If you've seen a lot of new live - action family comedies, you know that many of them are just plain not good.
There is clearly a space for high concept family comedies featuring talking animals and some humans looking like they'd rather be anywhere else doing anything else.
With a very funny script and a terrific sense of black humour, this quirky family comedy keeps us laughing even as it gets strongly emotional.
If you want a good family comedy, skip this one.
And funny, at times, rather than merely «amusing,» which many family comedies happily settle for.
The 1994 family comedy Blank Check teaches us a valuable lesson about money and the tendency to underestimate what a modern lifestyle really costs.
The pair are just the latest parents cast on the sophomore family comedy.
I'm setting a deadline to make my decision soon if I have any intention of shooting my new violent family comedy this year.
And with no other true family comedy on the horizon for a few weeks, this flick should hang around the top ten.
When did such gags become a staple of family comedies?
I prefer a little more dysfunction in my dysfunctional family comedies.
It's a pretty huge leap from children's picture book to live - action family comedy and not a particularly enjoyable one.
Free Birds (PG for action, rude humor and scenes of peril) Animated family comedy about a couple of squabbling turkeys (Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson) who put aside their differences to travel back in time in order to get turkey taken off the Thanksgiving menu.
Mr. Mom is only the second film scripted by John Hughes (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Christmas Vacation), and the first to really put his name on the map as a talent to watch in family comedies.
What is it about mixing family comedy with a laugh track and gooey one - liners that just makes the entire genre stink?
Directed by David Bowers, the upcoming family comedy stars Jason Ian Drucker, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Tom Everett Scott, and Alicia Silverstone; check them out below... In DIARY -LSB-...]
Open Road Films has released a new trailer and a batch of character posters for the upcoming family comedy Show Dogs which stars Will Arnett and Natasha Lyonne, and features the voice talents of Chris «Ludacris» Bridges, Jordin Sparks, Gabriel Iglesias, Shaquille O'Neal, Alan Cumming, and Stanley Tucci; check them out here... SHOW DOGS is a -LSB-...]
In a World... (R for profanity and sexual references) Lake Bell wrote, directed and stars in this dysfunctional family comedy as an aspiring voiceover artist attempting to follow in the footsteps of her movie trailer legend father (Fred Melamed), despite the fact that the field is dominated by stentorian - throated males.
Irene in Time (PG - 13 for Sexuality and mature themes) Dysfunctional family comedy from legendary indie director Henry Jaglom chronicles how the fallout of a troubled father - daughter relationship subsequently influences the marriage of daddy's little girl (Tanna Frederick).
The week's other newcomer, Global Road Entertainment's family comedy Show Dogs, opened in sixth place with a $ 6 million from 3,145 cinemas.
Laura Dave's latest novel is a winning family comedy set in Napa Wine Country.
A couple years ago, Paramount Pictures tried to corner the market on family comedy during the holiday season by releasing Daddy's Home in theaters just a couple weeks before Christmas.
Hollywood is always making family comedies, but they are rarely about real families: relations who are as difficult as they are wonderful, people who both love and irritate the heck out of each other.
I've been on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland several times, but never once during any of those five - minute - long excursions did I find myself thinking, «You know, this would make a great family comedy starring Eddie Murphy».
As one of the quintessential desires of little kids, Penny Marshall's light - hearted family comedy plays on the expectations and surprises that come with growing up.
According to The Tracking Board, director Mark Waters (Mean Girls) has signed on to direct Disney's long - gestating live - action family comedy Magic Camp, which has Steve Martin attached to star.
Last month, we had an animated family comedy called Despicable Me, a passable but derivative entertainment about a super-villain going over to the side of goodness.
One of my favourite films of last year, Demon is a uniquely strange and disturbing film, mixing absurdist family comedy with the most terrifying of imagery, that shakes the viewer to the core.
StudioCanal is pressing ahead with family comedy sequel Paddington 2 and has secured the first film's director Paul King to return, according to a report over at Deadline.
Live action / CG family comedies for everyone!
Hey boys and girls, we had the pleasure of a chat with Raja Gosnell, the director of the new family comedy about some old favourites, The Smurfs.
ysfunctional family comedy which basically pits a nerdy nice guy versus a bad boy alpha male.
This movie is a good but not great family comedy film with cool NBA tricks.
Like Palka's mom - dog, the movie is a mess, clicking back and forth between shadowy horror, suburban melodrama, and the kind of slapstick family comedy in which I half - expected Eddie Murphy to burst through the front door in a fat suit.
Searching for a way to get Mickey out of prison, Ray turns to an old opponent to secure a bartering chip in the form of a less - than - wholesome family comedy star.
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Black and Martin are especially charming as guys from way different backgrounds who become unlikely friends and for a PG - rated family comedy, you could do a lot worse.
The Hollars Director: John Krasinski Cast: Anna Kendrick, Charlie Day, John Krasinski, Josh Groban, Margo Martindale, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Mary Kay Place, Randall Park, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley Synopsis: John Krasinski's big - hearted family comedy takes a touching look at the ties that bind.
Rob Lowe to star in single - camera family comedy from Pete Huyck and Alex Gregory for NBC (Deadline).
This looks to be something of a modern spin on a traditional family comedy, and it's certainly on brand for ABC's traditional content.
Two by Two is an Irish animation that recasts the story of Noah's Ark as an absurdist family comedy told through the eyes of some of the animals caught in the situation.
The Goldbergs fans can party like it's the 1980s — the period family comedy has been renewed by ABC for two more seasons, Season 5 and 6.
Disney's heartwarming family comedy, «PLANES,» revved up with high - flying action and adventure, lands in homes and mass retailers nationwide on November 19th.
This is a pretty good setup for making an animated family comedy into a third - person shooter: Levels have their own separately wacky themes like being overrun with fraternity brothers or ruled by Santa Claus - turned - arms manufacturer.
In Chris Columbus» winning family comedy, Macaulay Culkin plays an eight - year - old kid who accidentally gets left behind by his parents when they rush off for a Christmas holiday, and fends off two incompetent burglars.
It's another First Family comedy where the funny parts feel overexerted.