Sentences with phrase «fantastical premise»

This is a novel with a somewhat fantastical premise set half a century ago in a country very different from our own.

Working from Shauna Cross» script, director Cutler doesn't treat this fantastical premise for anything resembling grit.

Thanks to solid performances from Bana and McAdams, the resulting emotions are surprisingly authentic considering the fantastical premise.

Some mainstream moviegoers were turned off by the film's fantastical premise — a woman's love affair with a fish - like monster — but the Academy awarded del Toro for creating a technical masterpiece that is also an homage to cinema.

Most of it is a bit farfetched, but within the context of the set - up, it holds to to the fantastical premise.

A few powerful deaths easily elicit an emotional reaction despite the story's fantastical premise.

Not long before he was known as Snake Plissken, he was Dexter Riley in three upbeat college comedies for Disney based on fantastical premises.

Not exact matches

If you re going to take your audience on a journey with a premise this fantastical, then you need to get the basics right.

The basic premise of 10 Cloverfield Lane — three people live in a suburban - home - styled bunker during what may or may not be the apocalypse — is, as you might expect from a J.J. Abrams - affiliated project, Spielbergian, combining fantastical science fiction with domestic drama.

Official Premise: The thrilling second chapter of the epic HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON trilogy returns to the fantastical world of the heroic Viking Hiccup and his faithful dragon Toothless.

It tries to stitch a fantastical and comical premise (Sandler transforming into strangers and getting up to all sorts of shenanigans, including an uncomfortably rapey encounter with a beautiful customer) with family heartbreak (Max's dad — played by Dustin Hoffman — has left his mom, who suffers from dementia and can't quite figure out where her husband has gone) and a plot about an evil property developer (Ellen Barkin) forcibly gentrifying the neighbourhood.

But although the premise is fantastical, Foos grounds it in the relationships (and secrets) within families, especially between mothers and daughters — including Irene and her daughter, Audrey.

The basic premise here is that Rayman and has friends are woken from their extended nap to find the Glade of Dreams once again in trouble, and the only way to save it is through platforming and madcap antics, because how else would you save a fantastical world?