Sentences with phrase «from pratfalls»

While none of the characters are ever hurt from the pratfalls, and the mean - spirited antagonist is too stupid to be scary, the attitudes of the rebellious Miles and the disobedient furry critters do not offer good examples for little ones.

Aside from the pratfalls and the dismemberment, there's a surprisingly tender romance between Binoche's gender - swapping offspring Billie (played a by a striking newcomer named Raph) and the eldest son Ma Loute (Brandon Lavieville), but that strand of the film ultimately takes a jarringly brutal detour too.

They all get together for a long weekend where not much happens, aside from pratfalls in the woods, plenty of public urination, and an eventual moment of confession which is nothing short of cringeworthy.

Not exact matches

The day that Max Patkin stops kissing base runners or crawling through catchers» legs or covering himself with dirt or getting the heave - hohoho from umpires, chances are that's the day he takes the Big Pratfall.

Themes from the 2,185 video clips — collected from various online sources for the study — included births and babies, weddings and proposals, death and suffering, spiders and snakes, physical pratfalls and risky stunts, sexual acts, natural disasters, wondrous nature and awkward handshakes.

They're certainly no Aykroyd and Belushi, or even Myers and Carvey, but Farley and Spade manage to wring humor from a series of juvenile setups and predictable pratfalls.

The comedy is as you have come to expect from Lester with these films, both silly pratfalls wise and the various subtle little dubbed gags.

Chevy Chase returns as dimwitted dad Clark W. Griswold in a pratfall - down funny romp bouncing from the casino to a Hoover Dam tour to Vegas shows and more.

Based on this trailer, this is definitely something different from Scorsese (we're not sure we ever expected to see a shot of a dog reacting to a slapstick pratfall from the director of Mean Streets), though he's never been the sort of director you could pin down to one genre.

Plaza doesn't stray too far from her brand — Tatiana is unsurprisingly droll and cutthroat — but the actress continues to prove that she's more than just her affectations, and her performance is backboned by a heartfelt riot of inner chaos and an uproarious talent for pratfalls (seriously, she has a gift).

The new remake — produced by Raimi and directed by Fede Alvarez from a script he wrote with Diablo Cody — arrives minus the camp humor and ghastly pratfalls.

It relies heavily on pratfalls and physical comedy, earning only the occasional light chuckle from either.

There are laughs to suit all tastes — from sarcastic jibes to pratfalls, from pokes at film conventions («I really thought that was going to explode.»)

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat») is of the well - executed physical variety.

Lean and lively, he's at the peak of his powers, from rubber - faced histrionics and flailing pratfalls to gleeful sarcasm and dead - on impersonations.

Plus, the two stars talked about Doug Kenney, shared memorable moments from filming, and the secret of making a Chevy Chase pratfall believable.

Meloni infuses Sax with a physicality that veers from explosively lethal to slapstick pratfalls, making it a great pairing with Oswalt's voicework.

From there it's all pratfalls, sight gags and bits of business involving super senses.

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan») is of the well - executed physical variety.

It's so apparent, this Freudian subtext, and yet so wasted on pratfalls and John going from normal to crazy as soon as the script requires him to.

Ultimately, it's formulaic stuff, full of fight scenes and pratfalls, that does very little raise the bar from the original.

But while Saulnier has scored grim chuckles from the hapless maneuvers of amateur law - breakers, Blair — who also wrote the screenplay — cranks the dumbfuck - pratfall levels to wacky extremes: Lynskey, recognizably human in a role that puts her expert comedic timing to good use, is quickly surrounded by a rogues» gallery of cartoons, including Elijah Wood, channeling Dwight Schrute as an oddball Christian neighbor turned sidekick.

Only Ubisoft's Zombie U, built from the ground up for the Wii U, avoids such pratfalls.

The broad, nested bands of Pratfall, from 1974, show not a trace of anything beyond the picture plane.

The enormous 1999 painting Earthquake in Chile appears next to Pratfall, from 1974.

Hanging opposite the elevators on the new Whitney's fifth floor, as a kind of preamble to «Frank Stella: A Retrospective,» are Pratfall (1974), a precise arrangement of 12 concentric squares in contrapuntal grays that sucks the viewer into its black core; six untitled photographs, from the late 1980s, of curling smoke that looks like jellyfish, or ink dispersing in water; and Earthquake in Chile (1999), a 40 - foot - long, turgid mess of a painting.

Her favourite subjects include «cross-species romance, dogs with itchy butts, drunk people barfing, strange fish, cloud formations, car crashes with test dummies flying out of them, weird glitches from video games that force human bodies into unnatural contortions, hilarious porn scenes, baby pratfalls, animals with clothes on, dogs humping unsuspecting humans, people wanking, kangaroos wanking, bears wanking» — anything outrageous, raunchy or abject.