Sentences with phrase «funnier than the script»

I'm actually curious to see this movie, the leaked emails and market research about it all were probably funnier than the script though.

Not exact matches

Surely too much money has been spent on the cast and the 3D rather than on fashioning an intelligent, funny script.

This movie is a mixed bag on one side is Kevin Hart mostly improvising which give most of, if not all of the film's funny dialogue, he also shares good chemistry with Ice Cube, on the other side the scripted jokes, are most of the time well lame, this fun to watch now than most of the movies are ****

The middle hour is mostly filler, so devoid of substantive comic bits, that it almost feels like they brainstormed every morning about what might be funny and just rolled film, rather than go with a polished, finished script.

They're more funny strange than funny ha - ha, as Walters flubs lines and her scripted profanity is bleeped.

Something better than another damn quote: The line - up scene was scripted as a serious scene, but after a full day of filming takes where the actors couldn't keep a straight face, Singer decided to use the funniest takes.

Add to that a script full of successful jokes and memorable scenes like Billy's hilarious dodgeball game on his first day of school, and you've got a movie that's funnier than it should be.

When Community creator and all - around funny guy Dan Harmon was enlisted by Marvel to work on the script for Doctor Strange, the reason seemed obvious at the time: more than likely he was going to infuse the Sorcerer Supreme with a touch of humor.

The script by Carlock is more chuckle inducing than funny, so it's up to her to really make some of the scenes sing.

The Playlist calls the script for The Sitter is «quite funny,» which doesn't excite much more than the image does.

Thankfully, Baumbach playing nice is still harsher than 95 % of comedies and this flick features easily one of his funniest scripts.

Still, there are more than enough laughs and clever surprises in this broad and sometimes violent farce to warrant a recommendation, thanks to a solidly funny script by Mark Perez, some pretty neat camera moves and choreographed action / comedic sequences from directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein — and a likable and talented ensemble cast, led by two of my favorites.

Maybe it's not even that Rudolph is funnier than McCarthy, but she is a welcome break from a script that has our lead actress talking non-stop.

That, said Wheatley at a round - table interview Friday in West Hollywood, gave the film sweeter, funnier moments than he had in the script.

Employing as much adult oriented humor as kid - aimed cracks, Hotel Transylvania «s script includes some smart one - liners, funny sight gags and rude jokes (often about fecal matter), most of which are more chuckle - worthy than laugh - out - loud.

All these years later, this affectionate tribute to old Hollywood and innocent matinee westerns is just as funny, thanks to a knowing script (by Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels and Randy Newman), engaging performances (by Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short) and Landis» savvy direction, which is larger than life in all the ways that those original westerns were.

The acting's sub-par across the board, the script is terrible, none of the jokes are funny, it's openly misogynistic, and Columbus finally made a film worse than Nine Months.

This is a different sort of script for Kaufman than his others, much less outwardly clever in its construction (though it may be his funniest script); that Kaufman feel is there, but it comes out more in his directorial choices than his writing.

Rather than identifying «what is funny», the exhibition looks more closely at «what makes funny» and how artists use various comedic personalities, strategies and tropes (including bodily movement, scripted dialogue, timing, exaggeration of scale and situation) to reveal more serious concerns about race, labour, gender and history.