Sentences with phrase «from low comedy»

The only thing missing from this low comedy was Governor William J. Le Petomane and his buxom secretary.

Not exact matches

A scripted comedy series could be getting a second chance from Facebook just a few months after MTV cancelled it for low ratings.

STANFORD»S BAND The musical kings of sophomoric humor have been banned from performing on the field at the next three Stanford - Notre Dame games after their Oct. 4 exhibition, in which, amid other bits of very low comedy, they parodied the Irish potato famine.

Brisport, who has performed for the last seven years with the political comedy theater group Political Subversities, has proposed that, if elected, he will lower his salary from $ 148,000 to the average income of Brooklyn, $ 47,000.

As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

His final film appearance — in John T. Kretchmer's low - budget comedy Bad Girls from Valley High — arrived posthumously, in 2005.

The film - which follows a trio of friends (Bradley Cooper's Phil, Ed Helms» Stu, and Zach Galifianakis» Alan) as they attempt to piece together just what transpired during a pal's drunken bachelor party (where it inevitably becomes clear that said pal has mysteriously vanished)- strikes all of the wrong notes virtually from the get - go, as screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore offer up a series of broadly - portrayed caricatures that could only exist within just such a low - rent comedy (with Galifianakis» aggressively off - the - wall turn as Alan undoubtedly the most apt example of this).

Breslin is the best thing about this myopic comedy that doesn't even get any humorous traction from the stereotypes it presses through its low - fidelity independent film filter.

Dahlbeck is most closely linked with the films of Ingmar Bergman, expertly etching characterizations ranging from low - life decadence to elegant high comedy.

Unfortunately, this low - lowbrow comedy, which tries to pass itself off as a «Friday» crossed with «Legally Blonde,» also does nothing to distinguish itself from recent urban flops «The Wash» and «Pootie Tang.»

From low - budget black comedies (Shallow Grave) to box office blockbusters (the Star Wars prequels), lavish musicals (Moulin Rouge!)

The biggest laughs therein result from pedestrian physical comedy that comes off like low - level Farrelly brothers, much of it involving a committed - as - ever Heffernan relishing his return to the land of Farva.

Half Magic, Heather Graham's feature debut as a writer / director, is a witty, agreeably low - key comedy about Finding Yourself that benefits from a keen sense of irony about Tinseltown.

Released: June 16 Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard Director: Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (The Fairy) Why it's great: Fans of the La La Land's Technicolor whimsy, the bizarrerie of Amélie, and / or the low - key hijinks of Wallace and Gromit cartoons should seek out the latest from «Abel and Gordon,» an old - meets - new comedy starring the director couple as a Canadian woman desperate to find her missing aunt, and the free - wheeling tramp who injects himself into the search to varying degrees of helpfulness.

While Ted 2 never reaches the turgid lows of A Million Ways to Die in the West, the writer / director's misguided western spoof from last year, it also demonstrates yet again that his brand of comedy is far more suited for the half - hour television format of his series like Family Guy and American Dad than it is for a two - hour picture that requires more narrative heft and character development.

Late Night Shopping is a low budget comedy made in Scotland that has no plot other than to show the state of mind that generates from the doldrums of life for young men and women on the lowest rung of the social and economic ladder.

Despite being a low budget comedy, the film doesn't shy away from its horrific roots, occasionally doubling down on gore with fountains of deep red blood.

That's a lot of mileage from a few low - budget noirs and one comedy, so it's not surprising that this subgenre is beginning to show signs of exhaustion.

This New York comedy is not a barrel of laughs, terribly thought - provoking, entirely different from other low - key movies, or something you'll remember a year from now.

BARRY is a dark comedy starring Bill Hader as a depressed, low - rent hitman from the Midwest.

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The extremely low - budget film features a stellar cast of British talent - Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone - and is Schepisi's first real diversion from comedy in a while.

The 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen video isn't the sharpest or most detailed, but that's a low - budget comedy in standard definition from a small studio for you.

Sacha Baron Cohen returns with a low - brow comedy (although his brows are rather impressive in this one), and even a star - studded cast including Ricky Tomlinson, Rebel Wilson, John Thompson and Penelope Cruz can't save it from the kind of humour that may work on a trashy TV channel but misses a lot on the big screen.

LFO is a micro-budgeted, low - fi sci - fi comedy from Sweden's Antonio Tublen that looks at human nature in a supremely twisted way.

However, there is a fatal flaw in Bruce Almighty that keeps it from ever becoming a good film, and a lesson for future filmmakers who think they can make a lasting comedy through dumb humor: if you're going to shoot for the stars, don't aim low.

Seventeen years later, indie filmmaker Miguel Arteta has delivered the film version, and while the novel's cult may prove hard to please, Youth in Revolt is a pleasant diversion from the lowest - common - denominator, airbrushed Hollywood teen sex comedy.

Since Infinity War arrived, the major studios have released just two movies: Warner Bros.» Melissa McCarthy comedy Life of the Party, which made $ 18.5 million in its opening weekend, the lowest total for a McCarthy vehicle since she became a movie star; and the $ 16.5 million - earning Breaking In, a Gabrielle Union thriller from Universal and Will Packer Productions, the company that has delivered two textbook counterprograms, Girls Trip and the Ride Along films.

With a long history of childish comedy films behind him, one could be forgiven for having extremely low expectations when confronted with the latest offering from Adam Sandler and his Happy Madison crew.

They make zombie movies for every mood, ranging from knockabout gore comedy to low - key art cinema.

There was also something very intriguing to me about making the final film in Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe a low - scale heist comedy as opposed to the cataclysmic action behemoths we've come to expect from Marvel Studios.

When one speaks of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, Michel Hazanavicius's amusing low - brow spy comedy from 2006, rather than of The Artist, his amusing but ostensibly highbrow awards - magnet from 2011, it's w...

I've seen quite a bit of toilet humor, barf gags, and flatulence in recent years, especially from teen comedies, but Van Wilder is quite possibly the lowest of the low in terms of how far it was willing to go.

Bana performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low - budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to science fiction and action thrillers.

It boasts a very mature, smart sense of humour — no low - brow poop and dick jokes, as we'd expect from something like, say, most mainstream R - rated comedies (here's looking to you Baywatch).

«Vacation,» a sequel, if you will, to a series that includes «National Lampoon's Vacation» (voted the 46th greatest comedy film of all time by Total Film magazine in 2000), features Ed Helms in the leading role of a pilot on a low - rent airline shuttling people from South Bend, Indiana to Chicago in eighteen minutes.

Those are the good factors in making Life of the Party, but seeing how the people behind it usually do the same style of comedy that's rarely funny in the first place, my expectations were fairly low from the start.

Kids and beginners can get their kicks on the lower half of the mountains on green circle and blue square groomers, or in the mini terrain park, never far from a hot chocolate or a soak in the hot tub back at the slope side condo or lodge, where you can rehearse your favorite lines from Hot Tub Time Machine (in 2009 Fernie was temporarily transformed into a 1980s ski resort for the filming of this John Cusack sci - fi comedy classic.)

What do you do when your life feels like a scene from a low - grade comedy film that's all about bathroom humor and things hitting the floor that shouldn't be on the floor?

Defensive driving traffics schools like Comedy Driving help to: keep points off your driving record, keep your auto insurance from increasing, lower the court costs, and dismiss a traffic ticket, and you'll also learn some new traffic laws you never knew existed.

Once a year you can take defensive driving at schools like Comedy Driving to: keep points off your driving record, keep your auto insurance from increasing, lower the cost of and dismiss a traffic ticket, and learn some new traffic laws you never knew existed.