Sentences with phrase «frat comedies»

(The Collector would be at home in any number of frat comedies.)

Beta House, as a standalone film, isn't much more than a completely raunchy regurgitation of story elements found in other frat comedies, such as Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds.

Raunchy frat comedies are as hard to pull off as any other kind because they have to keep surprising the audience, and «The Hangover» does with a bizarre series of uproarious situations with explanations that just about stay within the bounds of plausibility.

Described by one prominent critic as Revenge of the Nerds with an increased fart quotient and added projectile vomiting, this dumb - dumb frat comedy cast Heder, Spade and Schneider as a trio of losers who form a baseball team to thwart a bunch of elementary - school bullies; Heder played a booger - eating dork with an unhealthy degree of maternal attachment.

With The Hangover, it looks like he has taken the frat comedy to its next logical step: a guy who is about to get married falling back into a mess of drunken antics with his buddies the night before.

But rather than spend a whole film indulging this fantasy, Linklater expands and deepens his film, creating a film that is as much a dumb frat comedy as Dazed and Confused is a stoner comedy, which is to say not at all.

Rebooting the frat comedy for the slightly - more - sensitive» 00s while keeping the band - of - misfits ethos intact, «Old School» is basically «Animal House» with a bigger heart and a few more grey hairs.

Not exact matches

He had an obvious knack for comedy, and so for his next project he starred alongside David Spade and Rob Schneider in the frat - boy comedy The Benchwarmers.

He may not be the world's greatest director, but he does know how to cater to the frat boy audience with comedies that are lewd, crude and blisteringly funny.

Which might be a good way to sum up this «boys will be boys» Frat House - like comedy.

Although the script is credited to screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (the team behind the dismal Four Christmases and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past), The Hangover is consistent with the director's previous frat - boy comedy hits.

My only main complaint for this movie is the frat boy scene in the comedy club.

Selling this «From the Director of Old School» didn't do much for me, because I've preferred almost every subsequent «Frat Pack» comedy to the one that kind of cemented that clique.

In this romantic comedy, a freshman weenie finds himself the new project of the Bi Beta Kappa frat boys who want to turn him into a real ladies man so he can win the love of a luscious librarian.

Sadly, the mixture of frat pack comedy and romcom doesn't quite work.

It's rare for a mainstream Hollywood comedy to emerge now which hasn't got Frat Pack fingerprints all over it - although the group evolved through such esoteric, critically lauded hits as The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, and Rushmore.

MacFarlane had himself spoke many times about his (and audiences) trepidations in doing a sequel, particularly for a comedy, so in a move more akin to Bond or Batman, the writers disregarded some aspects of the original (noticably Mila Kunis's Lori) and sensibly shifted the focus more to Ted as a «person» rather than even more rambunctious frat - boy shenanigans with his Thunder Buddy John (Wahlberg), and what his existence means for those around him.

Seth Rogen and Zac Efron square off in the upcoming comedy, with the former playing happily married man (to Rose Byrne), living in the suburbs, who finds his life disrupted thanks to the former Disney heartthrob who moves in next door, bringing beer kegs, girls and a frat party with him.

Nick Stoller directs this comedy about a frat boy whose bad behavior affects a local neighbor's family life.

Seth Rogen stars as a father who moves his family right next to a frat house run by an obnoxious student (played by Zac Efron) in this Universal Pictures comedy.

Seth Rogen and Zac Efron are starring in this comedy about a family man whose life is upended by a hard - partying frat boy.

R - rated comedies in which outsiders sneak into a frat house, and in which Dave Franco and Seth Rogen appear: Neighbors, 22 Jump Street

Rudd has one of the healthiest careers in big screen comedy as an integral member of Judd Apatow's troupe and the kindred Frat Pack, although a string of recent flops (like this year's Wanderlust) may call his marquee value into question.

Easily the best frat boy comedy since Animal House, Neighbors crams its visually arresting 96 minute running time with as much deeply flawed human comedy as possible.

His film debut came in 1978 when he appeared in John Landis» frat - house comedy Animal House, alongside John Belushi, Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson.

In 2009, audiences were introduced to The Hangover, a raunchy Frat Pack-esque comedy about a small group of men who overdo it when they celebrate one of their own's bachelor party in Las Vegas.

Ferrell himself became a box - office commodity with an epitome of the instructional comedy, Todd Phillips's Old School, which still serves as lifestyle justification for a generation of stunted former frat guys.

A film that seems to have been conceived by a bunch of frat boys on a bad acid trip, «Horns» is not only overlong and ridiculous, but an almost incomprehensible mashup of mystery, romance, raunchy comedy and horror.

But Curtis's script is essentially an American frat - boy comedy with a series of vignettes showing games and ribaldry, virginity to be lost and pompous squares to offend.

He was marvelous in Neighbors as a preening frat boy, and emerged unscathed from the sex comedy That Awkward Moment, which criminally squandered a crop of young talents with great potential: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Imogen Poots and Mackenzie Davis.

The Marx Brothers comedy was just as subversive to college kids in 1932 as John Belushi's frat - house comedy was in 1978.

That's how you feel, more or less, by the climax of Final Exam, a low - budget Halloween knock - off crossed with a dopey frat - boy comedy.

Either way, he's married to her in Universal Pictures» upcoming comedy Neighbors and together they butt heads with the party - til - you - puke frat house that has moved in next door.

The tour is where he met the producer / director Ivan Reitman, and for some reason, the guy who had directed documentaries about fringe groups and frats was just the person to make R - rated comedies in Reitman's eyes, which led to Phillip's film career.

Rogen and Byrne also attend one of the frat's early, out - of - control parties, which is the opening salvo in what turns out to be some of the most elaborately choreographed and beautifully photographed party sequences we've ever seen in a mainstream studio comedy (their wild night spent drinking their faces off ends in a wonderful scene reminiscent of «The Trip,» with Efron and Rogen comparing Batman impressions.)

The nutty 2014 frat - boy comedy Neighbors (2014) is proof of his comedic chops.