Sentences with phrase «film lampoons»

The characters are all over-the-top stereotypes and the film lampoons everyone.

Though it's clearly the product of smart guys who care about the films they lampoon, there's obviously a difference between making a movie that can stand proudly alongside George Romero's body of work and making one that could keep good company with Michael Bay's.

Where that film lampooned summer camp films, the latest effort sends up New York City rom / coms.

Not exact matches

Laugh along with Joel, Mike, and the bots as they lampoon sci - fi films like The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy.

One notorious line in the film Cruel Intentions refers to the email format as the last bastion of «social recluses,» and numerous other media have lampooned the process of online dating at one time or another.Needless to say, times have changed, and opinions on this subject have shifted dramatically.

Smith seems to be lampooning that motivation more than endorsing it, but as with so much of the rest of the film, the jokes just aren't funny.

Some of the lampooning is tacked - on like the non-idyllic portrayals of LA and NY, but «Mother's Day» is first and foremost a rabid exploitation movie and it drips an unbearably sickening atmosphere (the supernatural Queenie freeze - frame is a pulpy jump scare) which is the purpose of these films.

It is also an interesting political take on the chain of command in the military, lampooning the superior officers as incompetent fools, despite having their hearts in the right place, the film manages to successfully create sympathy for Col. Berman (Ed Harris) in that despite his general inability to do the job, he is actually well liked.

Especially if one has recently seen Charlie Brooker's NAKED GUN - style spoof of the genre, A TOUCH OF CLOTH, which lampoons most of the codes and conventions that BLOOD extols (The spoof even featured Brian Cox, one of the principle characters in this film).

Naturally, some of these attempts spread to social media, and others were aimed directly at lampooning other superhero films.

The college - lampoon mood is set early, with a title sequence promising, among other characters, «a British villain» and «a sexy chick,» and explaining that the film is produced by «some asshole» and written by «the real heroes here.»

Spoof movies have made fun of action movies, adventure movies, horror films, and science - fiction movies, so romantic comedies were certainly ripe for lampooning.

I suspect this stretch of film was subsequently whittled down to the bone because it lampoons a musician, Wilson, lacking popular iconography or a correlative biopic, but I found it much more uproarious, nay, fresh, than the comparatively popular Bob Dylan interlude, «Let Me Hold You (Little Man)» aside.

Brooks is a genuinely awful director when he lacks a template to lampoon, thus here we get medium shots filmed on echoing soundstages that nonetheless manage, somehow, to convey suffocating claustrophobia.

It certainly deserves the criticism, but the film works beyond satire — like but not quite as successfully as its predecessor in tone — to work wholly as an entry in the genre that's being lampooned, albeit one with tongue firmly in cheek.

But to be fair, any film that can simultaneously abuse and lampoon the overused montage scene, make fun of the use of hard rock music during mundane moments and re-use jokes repeatedly with confidence, deserves a look.

The film's first act is often very funny as it lampoons the (admittedly low - hanging fruit of) know - it - all, shame - it - all young people, mostly through details in their behavior.

It's quite funny to see a film indulge, with the straightest of faces, in all those cheesy horror movie clichés that Wes Craven lampooned so well (and so recently) in Scream.

When you realize that featured lampooned films like Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, and Basic Instinct provide far more laughs than Loaded Weapon 1, you can only conclude that this weapon has been loaded — with blanks.

Yet if there's a third «Bad Moms» film, I hope it goes back to lampooning all the things that moms do to elevate — and subvert — themselves.

However, some of the gags poke fun at films that were either lampooned many times over or too old to recall (The Exorcist and Poltergeist), or the films are too unsuccessful to merit a spoof at all (The Frighteners, Hollow Man, and The Haunting).

Considering that its writers / directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are previously responsible for such films as The Starving Games, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans and Vampires Suck, you might easily think that their latest effort, Best Night Ever, is yet another parody, this time lampooning the raunchy, similarly themed Hangover series, Bridesmaids and Bachelorette.

Though the lampooning of the «cabin» - type horror films is fully explored, for some reason, Goddard and Whedon decide to also spoof J - horror films like Ringu as well.

Murphy's film brilliantly lampooned prejudice and our unspoken attitudes about race, exclusion, and otherness in a way that was radical for the time.

As a space - opera lampoon, Space Station 76 is incoherent primarily because it's never clear what director Jack Plotnick and the film's five credited screenwriters are attempting to spoof.

The film isn't without the occasional lull, especially as it spends an inordinate amount of time lampooning the live - action role playing world.

The feature - film debut of director British TV vet Ben Palmer (The Inbetweeners) is a conventional rom - com, except that screenwriter Tess Morris is well aware of the genre's conventions and pitfalls, and does what she can to dodge and lampoon them without going arch and meta.

The franchise has also been licensed into other media, such as television series, comics, children's books, and a critically lampooned feature film.

Pointing out the cliches of superhero flicks doesn't count for much when you fall for those same cliches yourself (the ending is especially snoozeworthy, and even more cliched than many of the superhero films it purports to lampoon).

Presented in the context of the film, it's emblematic of the disingenuousness of the industry's attempts to solve everything with public relations, (which is indeed is an easy target for lampoon).