Sentences with phrase «farcical plotting»

The farcical plotting is gloriously convoluted, and thanks to the threat from Raft, has real stakes involved, without ever letting up on the gags, which come thick and fast, right up to the unforgettable last line.

Not exact matches

Some 200 U.S. theaters screened the Sony Pictures film despite threats of terrorism and an international cyberwar spawned by the farcical comedy about a plot to assassinate the leader of North Korea.

I did not buy the romance, and the plot points were so farcical this film was almost unwatchable.

The plot is a rambling, farcical mess, its shortfalls made particularly clear in a rushed finale, but it's secondary to the frequently amusing interplay between the leads, all taking it in turns to be pretty, cruel and / or debauched.

The plot and character development of Sabine de Barra, which may have initially appealed to Winslet, owing to a feminine victory over patriarchal social structures, is wholly abandoned and the narrative evolves into a love affair between a noble man and a subordinate woman, an affair that is implausible, farcical and simply too convenient.