This is supposed to be
a funny sight gag but it only foreshadows the script's reliance on obnoxious behavior.
In terms of the hilarious hijinks that ensue, Annie uses what she's only heard in movies to get some bad guys to the ground with a gun she doesn't think is real and later cares for a bullet wound with improvised drug - store items; Max makes a mess of a white dog and a shrine of photos inside a neighbor's home; and during the climactic showdown on an airplane tarmac, there is a very
funny sight gag involving a very slow conveyor belt.
It maintains a stoic surface, yet delivers some wonderfully
funny sight gags and outright pratfalls.
As far as laughs go, the leads receive numerous opportunities to haunt audiences with silly one - liners and
funny sight gags.
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.
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the funny sight gags (reminiscent of, and sometimes plagiarized, from Benny Hill) and some of them are laugh - out - loud hilarious.
Not exact matches
It would be excusable if the one - liners and
sight gags were actually, you know,
funny, but having Optimus and his gang act like impatient 5 - year - olds and getting peed on by dogs is anything but.
The ones that do are the ones you'll remember and there are at least a dozen of memorable
sight gags and
funny lines interspersed throughout Naked Gun 2 1/2 to make it worth the meager 85 minutes spent.
With its array of subtle
sight gags and Borscht Belt — style one - liners («We're going to need a bigger boat»), Jaws was
funny, but not because it was unserious.
The first film — which Genndy Tartakovsky also directed — was cute and harmless, but this one is even more consistently
funny and crammed with inspired
sight gags.
The songs (many written by Sheryl Crow) often are
funnier than entire Adam Sandler films and the
sight gags work well.
When the
funniest scene in a comedy is a
sight gag involving Kevin Smith, you might be in dangerous waters.
Some of the throwaway lines are rather
funny, as are several of the
sight gags, such as a recurring bit in which the Duke keeps accidentally killing his wife's dog, then replacing it with one that looks nothing like the previous one.
Up until her joining the narrative the film had been
funny, if a touch icy, happy to tell a story that shouts from the rafters that our environment is doomed while also making us laugh with visual
sight gags such as a miniaturized Laura Dern in a bubble bath.
Granted, we wish the
sight gags were slightly
funnier and the movie looks like a very familiar cousin to Sony Animation's 2007 hit «Surf's Up,» but for now?
For example, cyclists have a habit of perishing around the accident prone detective in over-the-top
sight gags and there is one farting joke in a recording booth that is the opposite of everything I find
funny.
The jokes themselves aren't always as
funny as Tashlin's
sight gags, but they follow one from another more organically and Lewis plays them like a sustained series of variations that build to an actual narrative conclusion.
Apparently, Dana Carvey is also under the impression that he's just naturally
funny, spouting off horrible jokes and juvenile
sight gags, and I couldn't get him to stop, not matter how much I wished it.
It's not just fully of
sight gags, it has plenty of hilarious dialogue delivered by
funny people.
Abbott & Costello made the perfect foils for these supernatural antagonists, resulting in a potent combination of fright and
funny; the comic timing of the duo is impeccable in this film, and most of the jokes and
sight gags remain pretty timeless.
Additionally, the three fathers — Piiparinen (Juvonen), Amimi (Korpela) and Rauno — share great chemistry and most of the
funniest bits of the movie involve their one - liners and subtle
sight gags.
But we also have to endure a steady menu of
sight gags relying on homophobic «humor»; multiple fight scenes with very little comedic payoff; an uninspired retread of the smuggling operation plot line from the original; too many moments featuring the insufferable and just - not -
funny Farva character, and an ending that makes zero sense and has no payoff, even in this loony comedic universe.
In its first five minutes, «The Hangover Part III» delivers a
sight gag involving a giraffe that's exactly what people will want from this movie - something extreme and outrageous, a little bit mean and whole lot
funny.
There are lots of
sight gags here, with many of them involving the very
funny Rhys Darby («Flight of the Conchords»).
His earlier films,
funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his
sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running
gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.
Seeing heads transplanted between humans and Chihuahuas might have seemed like a
funny, surreal
sight gag on paper, but it plays out like a mildly horrific turn of events when you see it on the big screen.
In the script, I of course knew there would be some
sight gags for the audience to get in on, but for the character, he's totally unaware how
funny he is.
Plus there are some good sheep - based
sight gags, and sheep are always
funny.
Perhaps it wouldn't be laugh - out - loud
funny, or even worthy of a smile, but the knowledge that this feeble
sight gag is the best joke that they could muster for that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 makes it abysmally painful to endure.
THE GOOD: Gene Wilder's masterfully
funny performance, Peter Boyle's endearing portrayal of the monster, the lush black and white photography, a great song and dance number, Gene Hackman (The French Connection, Bonnie and Clyde) as the blind man, Mel Brooks» adept direction, and some genuinely hilarious
sight gags and characters.
And Coogler brings the
funny, too: one
sight gag, involving a car seat and steering wheel, would do silent - comedy king Harold Lloyd proud.
Like the latter, Hazard isn't trying to be «
funny» as he plays the increasingly panicked passengers, but to be as over-dramatically real as he can given the ceaseless
sight gags.
The Hot Chick delivers exactly what you would expect from a Happy Madison production: Crude bathroom humor, sexual innuendo, and the basest of
sight gags, all of which will tickle the
funny bone of the lowest of lowbrow film lovers.
The result is a more visually inventive yet even more juvenile effort (hard to imagine), which once again allows the star comedian to cut completely loose with the material for some choice
sight gags and sporadically
funny crude humor.
The film is replete with
sight gags (the best being the hospital «J» Ward) and verbal interplay between the Narrator and characters, but the actual number of times these
gags are
funny falls as the movie progresses.