Sentences with phrase «funny mockumentary»
Recommendation of the week: Today I'm recommending movies instead of books, and two very different movies at that — the very funny mockumentary Popstar, and the very funny but in a totally different way Love & Friendship, based on Jane Austen's Lady Susan.
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I definitely don't remember anything quite like the 1982 bike race in HBO's Tour de Pharmacy, a sporadically funny mockumentary about doping in cycling that premieres Saturday and whose many stars include Andy Samberg, Orlando Bloom, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Bacon, Daveed Diggs, Julia Ormond, and, bizarrely even for this, Lance Armstrong.
It's hard to believe that Christopher Guest, who directed last year's smart and funny mockumentary Waiting for Guffman, helmed this disastrous enterprise.
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District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is nothing funny about this movie), detailing how 20 years earlier, a huge alien spaceship (think Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.
For a movie literally about «finding the funny,» it's ironic that director Jim Pasternak too rarely does in his fitfully lively but mostly awkward mockumentary «Certifiably Jonathan.»
«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
The mockumentary format is at least an attempt to do something fresh in the animated film world, but mockumentaries are only really funny because they mirror real life in an ironic, satirical fashion, often featuring comedians employing a naturalistic ad - lib delivery.
WHY: «What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a very funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
These little side jokes, as well as behaviors and relationships, are often funnier and more interesting than the main plot twists — as well as the «mockumentary» stuff — but there are enough of them in the movie's loose structure that it never gets dull.