Sentences with phrase «few laughs»

It just seems to drag on and on with very few laughs along the way.

At times, the film feels like a comedy but there are few laughs in it.

There's plenty of dysfunction here, but very few laughs.

The gags never become truly bad, but I must admit the movie contains fewer laughs than I recalled.

It runs too long and offers too few laughs along the way.

It's a mounting desperation that yields few laughs, particularly since the bulk of the situations are taken wholesale from the first film with little to no spin.

That helps to provide some sensation for viewers because despite many efforts, there are very few laughs to be found both in and out of this bulky span.

The Big Year , however, generates few laugh out loud moments from its impressive cast but maintains a genial mood of good natured amusement.

The opening has all the makings of a standard boy - meets - girl, boy - and - girl - can «t - stand - each - other, boy - and - girl - need - each - other romantic comedy and while this path is taken to a large degree, the movie opts for fewer laughs and more warmth and sentimentality.

Around two - thirds of the way through the previously tight script becomes woolly, and not very funny, where previously it was consistently amusing â $ «my fellow audience seemed to think so too, with few laughs from that point.

There were few laugh lines in U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's Thursday morning address to Baltimore's business community.

Quentin Tarantino's gory western farce elicits few laughs.

Here, there's still some sweetness, but it has been undercut by a bitter infusion, and the hilarity generates fewer laughs than his best endeavors.

There are very few laughs throughout the movie's brisk 86 - minute runtime, and the visual effects look unfinished in most cases, particularly the main creature, which is just a man in a really shoddy rubber suit.

A wearying trudge thanks to a silly screenplay that finds few laughs and little genuine emotion despite brazen attempts to pull at the heartstrings.

The screenplay by Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Jon Zack and Howard Gould is extremely weak and evokes few laughs.

The goodwill Stiller has earned is strictly from comedy and given how few laughs there are, it doesn't feel like he's doing his job to the best of his abilities here.

This true crime story aims for farcical lunacy, but garners few laughs and falls short on creating persuasive action sequences.

and a fair few laughs along the way as Heather shares her world with us — straight from her family home in Berkshire.

A blander, more responsible «Arthur» with far fewer laughs and, be warned, a painful update on the classic Burt Bacharach title tune over the end credits.

It boggles my mind how a film with so few laughs can get such a following.

There's a good rapport between Diaz and Applegate (while Blair is defaced in as many ways as the filmmakers could come up with), even when the stuff they are doing bares few laughs.

Instead, it settles for showing a psychotic family seeking vengeance on any people they don't like with few laughs attached to it.

: Put it this way: the first actor listed in the credits is Matt «Max Headroom» Frewer, and the movie's few laughs come from Tommy Chong as the drug - addled bus driver.

For lovers of Woody Allen's Annie Hall period it will be manna from heaven, but for the rest of us it will simply be an ensemble comedy that has a few smiles, but precious few laughs.

I'm not exactly sure on the what genre David Cross was going for; comedy / drama seems to fit the bill, however, the film had much fewer laughs than I think Cross was aiming for.

The low - brow script leads the characters through one far - fetched scenario after another with few laughs along the way.

But there are few laughs in this gloomy world and certainly no lollipops.

The gags never become truly bad, but I must admit the movie contains fewer laughs than I recalled from viewings in the 1980s.

Killers has a likeable comedic cast but is consummately vapid, generating few laughs and little excitement.

The pacing has been decent, the characters have resonated with me as a gamer, and there's been a fair few laughs too.

Aliens offer a cure for earthling ennui in From Other Worlds, a limp sci - fi comedy with fewer laughs than a meeting of Abductees Anonymous.

Stuck on You is a comedy that plays it too straight and thus provides very few laughs.

OK, so Hillary Clinton isn't the kind of person most of us would want to go out and have a few laughs with.

It was cool to hear some very encouraging news from Steve Case about his new book and the Rise of the Rest; Sheryl Sandberg provided some real insights into new, simple and cost - effective tools that Facebook is deploying to help startups and growing businesses compete effectively with much larger firms and far more precisely direct and target their scarce marketing dollars; and Kevin O'Leary is always good for a few laughs, but also definitely tells it like it is.

Your jokes don't have to be complicated, but once you've got a few laughs you'll relax, and you'll feel the rest begin to fall into place.

After telling the middle - schooler that he was «obnoxious» at that age, Munger aroused a few laughs with his concise response, which boiled down to: get rich and be generous.

Then he trivializes her work and puts her in an embarrassing situation, just to get a few laughs.

This will get everyone to let their hair down, have a few laughs, and put a smile on.

Before accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, Arnold Palmer shared a few laughs with President George W. Bush and gave the commander in chief a few golf tips in the East Room of the White House.

You'll also get a few laughs while watching.

In case you've been missing Because Money (on hiatus as we plan for Season Three), I just did an interview with Kornel Szrejber on retirement income planning, and we managed to squeeze a few laughs out of what is traditionally a less - than - hilarious topic.

I recently caused a few laughs during a lunch break with my magazine colleagues when I attempted a rap: «Living and driven, given a vision / Fulfilling the commission with spiritual intuition / People you need to listen».

Religion News Service: Sultans of Satire aims to bridge gaps with Muslims, Arabs through comedy Produced by the Levantine Cultural Center, which is dedicated to highlighting Middle Eastern and Arab culture, the Sultans of Satire stand - up show aims to challenge stereotypes and sensitivities while bringing people together with a few laughs.

Brian had a few laughs at my expense because I wrote it in about 20 minutes on a Saturday afternoon, off - the - cuff.

You can't spend millions of dollars targeting the civil rights of a minority group then cry victim when some members of that group have a few laughs at your expense.

Her spoken - word poems have reached over a million people on Youtube and her Twitter feed continues to urge people on toward the Gospel while providing a few laughs, too.