Sentences with phrase «for slapstick»

Kristen Bell, known for her slapstick humor and lovable flaws in films such as Bad Moms and her TV show The Good Place, isn't the first person you would think to go to for serious relationship advice.

The rest of the yokai are just used for slapstick humor or one - shot jokes, and while I understand the key audience and what they are looking for in this kind of manga, I would have been much more impressed if the jokes were less «LOL LOOK AT THIS WEIRD GUY» and something a little more substantial.

They went for slapstick, even though the material is screaming for a dry wit.

Chaplin's first comedy for Mutual Films features the first film use of an elevator as a source for slapstick.

As far as those laughs go, your mileage will definitely vary, depending on your mind - state and level of tolerance for slapstick and sexual innuendo.

If sibling directors Paul and Chris Weitz, best known for the slapstick teen comedy AMERICAN PIE, were looking to establish themselves as more mature filmmakers, they succeeded handily with this adaptation of UK author Nick (High Fidelity) Hornby's 1998 novel of the same title.

As usual, Clouseau bumbles his way through sequence after sequence, allowing Martin and company plenty of room for slapstick humor and broad physical comedy.

The game received fairly high - praise for its slapstick - wit and polished gameplay.

Is the Old West really a breeding ground for slapstick, anyway?

The Big Brawl was directed by Robert Clouse, who would earn his claim to fame directing the Bruce lee films Enter the Dragon and Game of Death, and give him credit in playing the film to Jackie's strengths as a defensive martial artist and his penchant for slapstick, rather than try to make another Bruce Lee - type vehicle.

It's a measure of just how flat - footed «Cross» is that director Rob Cohen tries to shock us with this prologue, then plays the bowl of fingers for slapstick laughs not five minutes later.

The Three Stooges (PG for slapstick violence, crude humor and double entendres) Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso co-star as Moe, Larry and Curly, respectively, in this madcap adventure which has the hapless trio landing their own reality show after uncovering a murder plot while trying to rescue their cash - strapped, childhood orphanage.

Victor Hugo's original novel is not known for its slapstick either (the clue is in the title), yet director Tom Hooper's adaptation is so earnest as to verge on parody.

And though arthritis has set in, they still relate to the world as if it were the setup for a slapstick routine — locks refuse to open, a TV (unplugged) goes mysteriously on the fritz.

See it cropping up in the character of Drew's widowed mother: in a flurry of manic energy after her husband's passing, Hollie (Susan Sarandon) proceeds to improve herself by learning stand - up comedy and tap - dancing — anything that will allow for slapstick comic whimsy (in learning to fix a car, the hood falls on her and she kicks her legs hysterically), which becomes as deadly as cancer during an ill - considered eulogy at a memorial service that stands as one of the most painful moments in movies this year.

It's not brain dead comedy created solely for slapstick humor but has a self - depreciating way of portraying the life of its central characters and their actions.

In the YouTube age of 10 - minute online video, perhaps that is the best way to deliver further adventures for this slapstick troupe?

Mr. Bean's Holiday (PG for mild epithets) Rowan Atkinson reprises his role as the incomparably accident - prone bumbling Brit for a slapstick - driven misadventure meandering from London to Paris to Cannes during which he is suspected of kidnapping, creates havoc on a movie set, and finds romance with a beautiful young actress (Emma de Caunes).

The Guardian continues the praise for Whedon's direction, noting his «keen ear for comedy, a no - nonsense approach to ditching the gags that don't work, a deft hand for slapstick and an eagerness to use it.»

This is really a well - rounded look at college life that both resonates dramatically and harnesses its potential for slapstick fun.

Downey has a perfect ear for the Chaplin accent, the way it climbed from Cockney to minced posh, and a perfect boot and fist for the slapstick; the one thing he doesn't have is an eye on his own brilliance.

Different from other shows in that it was largely silent, Atkinson's Bean demonstrated a rare gift for slapstick that has led to his being compared to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

In Strings the sex was played mostly for slapstick jokes, but the sex here is very much in character.

Once a punch line for his slapstick 40 at the combine, Bengals tackle Andre Smith decided to lose flab and regain respect

Paul was mostly known for his slapstick style of comedy, sharing footage of himself doing stunts, telling jokes, and playing pranks.

Not exact matches

Smosh, started by comedy duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, was one of the first YouTube sensations, becoming well known for the duo's slapstick comedy videos that parodied video games and pop culture.

Somehow, with little consequence except the continued appreciation of British children, the puppet Mr. Punch has managed to commit domestic abuse, infanticide and other slapstick crimes for 350 years now.

The slapstick intro set the tone for the evening and was a hilariously perfect way to kick off to the night.

As they watch Malvolio, the clowns perform a slapstick ballet, popping out regularly from behind the long black tapestries that stand in for scenery, cracking jokes, bickering, threatening, and bundling each other into hiding when they get hotheaded enough to become conspicuous.

The videos are slapstick mini-masterpieces for softball aficionados, with Butler and Woodward giving famed comedy duos through history a run for their money as a pair of buffoons — Butler the boisterous, over-the-top funny man; Woodward the perfectly droll, hyper - vocal straight man, filling in dead air with improvised lines — desperately trying to get into a bat to juice it up.

There is an element of slapstick, too: the giant clapping mouth, and not much room for a brain case — these are endearing features.

The movie's got everything from slapstick comedy, to jack - in - the - box spooks, to 17 - year - old Wynona Rider wearing gothic - black attire and it was an essential starting point for many of Hollywood's finest working artists today.

The script is little more than a string of excuses for various skits and slapstick set pieces but the laughs flow much more freely than in Singapore.

Weinstein flirts gently with slapstick throughout, such as in Menashe's mishaps with a vanload of gefilte fish, or his failed efforts to bake kugel for the memorial.

«American Wedding» is rated R for non-stop crude humor (gags and references about sexual and other bodily functions), frequent use of strong sexual profanity, female and partial male nudity (done for laughs), simulated sex and some slapstick violence.

Instead, we get plenty of opportunities for fast - paced slapstick, and Gleeson — a fine actor who in recent years has ably demonstrated his versatility in everything from The Last Jedi to Ex Machina to Brooklyn to The Revenant — turns out to be an inspired physical comedian as well.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

Attempting a slapstick satire of suburban paranoia and xenophobia, Dante lavishes his considerable skills on a one - note, repetitive Dana Olsen screenplay which, at best, contains enough invention for a 20 - minute skit.

The film tries to pack in a little bit too much in its running time, and there isn't a comedic moment until well into the film, a strange choice in a movie for kids, but The Wild Life has its moments of charm, hilarity, and slapstick that worked really well.

Mistaking Toby for Sancho Panza, the two men flee the town on an adventure THR's David Rooney describes as a «tiresome succession of unfunny slapstick clashes and dramatic arcs that go nowhere.»

It's not low - brow comedy or slapstick at all, but a very well - written and acted show, which slowly makes you really love the characters, mostly for their flaws.

For the soul of Gondry's work, it seems to me, is neither its soaring flights of visual fancy nor its sometimes crude slapstick, but rather its pained understanding of a generation hopelessly tongue - tied when it comes to matters of the heart.

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

I suppose I'm an easy mark for low - brow humor and cringe - inducing pun play, but who doesn't appreciate a little slapstick from time to time?

Though it's a loud, vulgar, and occasionally brutal comedy, it never succumbs to the fashion for facetiousness: Clint Eastwood always takes his work seriously, even in a relatively impersonal project like this, and there are moments of moving emotional candor amid the slapstick, flashes on loneliness, forgiveness, and loyalty.

I found enough likeable aspects in it to keep me preoccupied from dwelling on the parts less interesting to me, and that's how I suspect the average moviegoer will view it... nothing great, but worth seeing for Bialystock & Bloom's slapstick, Ulla's sexpot antics, Liebkind's hilarious eccentricity, de Bris» goggle - eyed impression Reagan - in - drag, a procession of walker - clad ladies that would make Fellini proud, or, perhaps, leggy, female stormtroopers?

It isn't superlative slapstick, but it is oddly watchable if only for the perverse curiosity toward how much more ridiculous can circumstances get.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

Whereas a hit like Wedding Crashers struck such a balance somewhat awkwardly — structured so that the first half was for boys - boy rowdiness, and the second half for girly - girl romance — Apatow's latest tackles both exigencies nearly simultaneously, a considerable feat aided by the writer - director's adept ability to wring laughs not from outrageous farce and slapstick but, instead, from real - world situations and dilemmas.