Sentences with phrase «fun at his characters»

Baumbach pokes fun at his characters» pretensions but allows us to empathize with them at almost every turn, until Stiller goes off the deep end.

She also pokes a lot of fun at character and genre stereotypes.

Not exact matches

This is a fun character because he acts like such a idiot at times, but then out of no where he says something that is rather profound or makes an astute observation.

This is a fun character because he acts like such a idiot at times, but then out of no where

«Its happy optimism, its gaiety, its love of good - natured fun» has been overlooked by most of its commentators, he says: «They have invested the Song with a serious edifying character which does not fit it at all.

and im sure when you choke out «the star of the company» on 10 days notice you would not show a joint on tv to say «hey look at me im cool», thats just how they are and thats it, if people do nt like them its fun but you cant say they are putting on a «character» because they are certainly not doing that.

Character dining is great fun, and I was actually surprised at how much he who has trouble sitting still for ten seconds my son enjoyed it ** see above video **, but neither of my kids ate very much.

Be it Disney dining or a special meal at Beaches Resorts, Character meals are not cheap, but they are definitely fun.

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It was a fun, passionate discussion — although when tons of people are all communicating at the same time in 140 character sound bites, it's hard to say there was one coherent thread.

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«Killing characters in video games may be fun for players, but it appears to be bad for business,» said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at The Ohio State University.

an active character, due to which the bride will «fly» all day among the guests, will participate in various fun activities and will dance instead sitting at the table;

I want to try this method, I've been making my own chalk paint, and painted my china cabinet, and used the Minwax dark wax to antique it, it's not for everyone, but the look is just what I want, old world look, not even put it has character, I am doing my coffee table as well, I find very ornate pieces cheap and paint a base cream chalk paint and then go over it with the Minwax dark, let it sit for 15 min and buff, then add another layer of wax, its so much fun, but the problem I'm having is I'm ADD and I have 5 projects going at once!

I'm not surprised at all to hear there's a root to the fun fashion of the characters in these books.

It was fun to escape the fast pace of Manhattan, which although intrinsic to its character can be overwhelming at times, and be somewhere else (or someone else) for a few hours.

Just for fun, here's a post over at GameSpy that supposes what things would look like if video game characters had dating profile.

«The Dating Game» is a game appropriate for actors with at least some character experience, and is a fun game for an audience to watch.

People are yelling at the bartenders for their drinks, and tripping over each other in the process.Have fun playing these dating games and dress up characters to get them ready for their dates or visit the place of dates to do certain things.

Sure, the game is just poking fun at it because the game is supposed to be silly, but if you make your characters be transsexual or lesbian because you want to give yourself a morality autofellatio because you didn't include any straightforward heterosexual characters, that is undeniably pretentious and the good intentions fly out of the window, much like with Jack's rise to power.

His look is extreme — like a cartoon character — but his manner couldn't be more down - to - earth, and he has a way of being inside the action, making sense of it, and standing on the outside, too, not quite making fun of it, but winking at us all the same.

The two were able to relate to their characters» need to dance and have fun, while at the same time maturing and learning to make it on their own.

Meanwhile, all of the pancake - flat supporting characters get to have all of the fun (at least someone got to).

The characters aren't as fun or memorable as those in games past and the fact that you can play as the much loved Clap Trap just proves further that they were really scraping for ideas at this point.

Mr. Franco isn't making fun of his character, at least not entirely; rather, he's put distance into the mix, as if to point out that Tommy is very much a self - made man, a construction.

The art style is cool and the arenas and characters are fun to look at, but even they can't.

An uninspired cross between Cotton Club and the characters of Damon Runyon, told in cliches so broad you keep waiting for it to poke fun at itself, but it never does.

The only reason my rating is so high is the fact that I never expected it to be as good as it was, It come as quite a surprise how funny it was, Ice Cube basically plays the same character that made his role in the Jump Street films so good, It's nothing new but it's full of cheap laughs from start to finish and the fight at the end was pretty entertaining, Yes it's predictable but it's allot of fun.

Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 is not the best game in this series of fighters, graphically it's good for a Wii game, the sound is good, the voice acting is great, the controls are ok, there is a large number of characters to play as which is great and even some game exclusive characters, multiplayer is ok, the story mode introduces an new and unique story with some interesting characters but kind of falls short, and the difficulty can be down right frustrating at times, there is some good versus modes and a fun survival mode, all in all i would only recommend this to Naruto fans, and people who love fighting games.

It's a lot of fun to see all these characters interacting with each other, and there's a tremendous amount of meta - humor involved (actors recurring in different roles, people casting embarrassed glances at the fourth wall, and so on).

And much like last year's «Wreck - It Ralph» (or the more tonally similar «Adventure Time»), «The Lego Movie» anticipates a certain attention - deficit quality in its audience, constantly plunging the action into new and different realms, while poking fun at the various characters and customs that make each sort of silly along the way.

He's funny and clearly having fun playing at being off his rocker, but his character ends up being little more than a plot fulcrum.

For those who were disappointed in the show's uneven fourth season, the best news is that, at least in the nine episodes previewed, Rescue Me is more consistent, more focused and more fun, with better stories for all of its characters.

Reveling in the chance to ham it up as a character poking fun at himself.

Nintendo of France tweeted out fun - filled image showing characters from Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Wind Waker relaxing at a Parisian café in anticipation of this week's Japan Expo Zelda masterclass.

And this show is fun, because I can use these characters to tell stories, and be writing about music at the same time.

American Pie worked because it poked fun at the main (male) protagonists who ran around doing stupid things, whilst most of the female characters were quite sensible in comparison.

Final Verdict: Poor character development, an uneven script, but at the end of the day, this is more fun than I expected.

Upgrading the characters is part of the fun, seeing them develop into the superheroes we all recognize, but at the same time that means they're a little weak to start.

Ruby Sparks wants to wag its finger at the Manic Pixie Dream Girl ideal while still having lots of fun with the Ruby character and pouring out a lot of sympathy towards poor old troubled Calvin.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Gibson, a proven pro at playing off - kilter characters, is so much fun to watch that we are interested when the contrived plot surfaces.

While it can miss at times, it hits more often than not with a dry comment about the setting you're in, poking fun at first person shooters in general, or just the main character, Athena, being witty in reaction to an NPC or situation.

It has armored rhinos, Ruritanian power struggles, wacky inventions (e.g., nanobot shoes), sprinkles of Jules Verne and James Bond, characters who can't stop striking cool poses with bladed weapons, and a secondary villain who spends most of his screen time cackling at his own dastardliness — the one - armed vibranium trafficker Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), an uncommonly fun bad guy in an age of humorless Steppenwolfs and Ronan The Accusers.

Mark Wahlberg's character is a particularly fun spoofy figure that really pokes fun at the wealth of certain Hollywood types.

At the film's press day, appropriately held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, actress Olivia Cooke spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about why she wanted to be a part of this project, how she related to her character, just how much the story changed and evolved, re-shooting 50 % of the film, who she'd want to contact with a Ouija board, the most challenging aspect of the shoot, having so much fun with this cast, and why she doesn't think she'd return for a sequeAt the film's press day, appropriately held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, actress Olivia Cooke spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about why she wanted to be a part of this project, how she related to her character, just how much the story changed and evolved, re-shooting 50 % of the film, who she'd want to contact with a Ouija board, the most challenging aspect of the shoot, having so much fun with this cast, and why she doesn't think she'd return for a sequeat the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, actress Olivia Cooke spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about why she wanted to be a part of this project, how she related to her character, just how much the story changed and evolved, re-shooting 50 % of the film, who she'd want to contact with a Ouija board, the most challenging aspect of the shoot, having so much fun with this cast, and why she doesn't think she'd return for a sequel.

Director Jonathan Levine (50/50) and his team of writers (including Evan Goldberg, natch) dip a toe in schmaltz rather than investing at all in actual character development, preferring to string together episodes of goofball fun.

Also at the event, kids will have the unique opportunity to meet their favorite Skylanders characters, experience the game at in - store game kiosks and receive other fun Skylanders Giants giveaways.

The HBO comedy feels closer to a movie than a show: sitting with these characters for 90 minutes at a time is simply more fun than a mere 30 minutes.

She's the kind of actress that can make any character seem three - dimensional and sympathetic, or at the very least, really fun to watch.