Sentences with phrase «first great comedy»

Not exact matches

not even close to as good as the first or even second, no great amazing musical numbers, story was all over the place, the only thing redeeming was the comedy.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

And Vaughn, for the first time since Swingers, has the swaggering authority that could still become his great contribution to screen comedy.

The first hour ranks among the greatest action comedies ever made — and then the rest of it happens

«There's comedy, which I think J.J. does a great job of, but, like the first one, there's some serious issues being dealt with.

In the clip above, watch the legendary actor share what first sparked his affinity for comedy and his formative experience with Charlie Chaplin's 1940 masterpiece The Great Dictator.

Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud excel in pleasing the fans of Despicable Me with much of the same spy action and slapstick minion comedy seen in the first film, only amped up to greater heights for this highly anticipated sequel.

First, it means some great films that are also comedies may appear lower on the list than they would if we were weighing technical execution of those non-comic elements equally with humor present.

I suppose I could choose the great movies that have made me laugh the most — the first that come to mind, such as: a Keaton («Sherlock, Jr.» or «Steamboat Bill, Jr.»), a Fields («It's A Gift» or «The Bank Dick»), a Marx Bros. («Animal Crackers» or «Duck Soup»), a Sturges («The Lady Eve» or «Miracle of Morgan's Creek»), and, let's say, a classic comedy (preferably starring Cary Grant or Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur, and written and / or directed by Ernst Lubitsch or Howard Hawks or Billy Wilder or Mitchell Leisen, like «Trouble in Paradise» or «Heaven Can Wait» (1943) or «Bringing Up Baby» or «His Girl Friday» or «The Major and the Minor» or «Some Like It Hot» or «Easy Living» or «Ball of Fire»...).

Say Anything features a very well - developed love story mixed with great comedy and serious drama, but also never seems uneven in tone, astonishing for a first - time director.

Anderson's new film Inherent Vice, which is neither a masterpiece nor anything that aspires to such, supports the theory that he's always been first and foremost a great director of comedy.

«The great romantic comedy about first - world power has yet to be written,» McFeely jokes.

Though far from the big - budget extravaganza of the first two «Iron Man» films, what the indie comedy lacks in spectacle it makes up for with a great cast, a warm and funny script, and some mouth - watering food porn.

A thrilling, emotional sequel to a tricky first installment, Sam Raimi's NYC adventure allows Tobey Maguire to give up the suit for a bit (a classic comedy sequence set to «Raindrops Keep Fallin» on My Head»), while allowing the great Alfred Molina to embody one of the genre's most memorable villains, Doctor Octopus.

The first trailer has been released for Cameron Crowe's upcoming romantic comedy Aloha which stars Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone; check it out below after the official synopsis... In Aloha, a celebrated military contractor (Bradley Cooper) returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs — the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii — and -LSB-...]

To an even greater extent than the first movie, The Hangover Part II has a look darker and more edgy than the vast majority of comedy films.

The series had the best balance of comedy with series moments in the first Dead Rising and ever since then, I feel like the developers have lost idea about what makes the series so great instead focusing on outrageous gadgets and new ways to slay down the zombies.

All that is holding Sausage Party back from serious consideration of being one of the greatest comedies of all time is that much of the insanity and truly memorable moments come in the final act (you will never ever forget the last 30 minutes of this movie for as long as you live, even if you get Alzheimer's), while the first hour ever - so slightly pales in comparison.

Loaded with an all - star cast (Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney, Peter Serafinowicz, and Morena Baccarin), one of the main reasons Spy is so great is that each supporting character has a moment to shine, and Statham completely knocks it out of the park in his first big studio comedy.

Hot Fuzz surpasses the group's first collaboration, as a brilliant cop comedy that has great fun with cinema's conventions and clichés, specifically those of action films from the past 25 years.

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2014 was a banner year, with great films in an enormous range of genres: blockbusters and indies, horror and SciFi, dramas and comedies, as well as films from first time filmmakers, a lot of great stuff from women directors, and an unusually high number of excellent films with one - word titles.

How their first «talkie» The Jazz Singer was cast and made is a great story on its own with both real life comedy and tragedy involved.

Mack and Mabel: Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's musical tells the bittersweet love story of silent - screen director Mack Sennett and his leading lady Mabel Normand, the movies» first great female comedy star.

Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand - drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an» After (1964), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968 - 70), which uses his first sculpto - pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912 - 13)(1972 - 3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms» 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live - action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).

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