Sentences with phrase «funny than the film»

If you were to get a phone call telling you that your most loved person on the face of the planet was dying from ebola, and by the way, you have aids, that would be funnier than this film.

Most of the humor seems forced, obvious, or at least a lot less funny than the film seems to think it would be.

Like, really bad; the kind of movie where the blooper reel attached to the end credits is funnier than the film itself.

It was also funnier than any film marketed as a comedy I've seen in years.

Special features include a Behind the Rage featurette and a Gag Reel (which is funnier than the film itself).

Not exact matches

Not only does the sixth Spider - Man film understand the character better than previous outings, but «Spider - Man: Homecoming» is also genuinely funny while adding an unexpected amount of heart from the unlikeliest of places.

Mom is beside herself when she realizes that she's been filming a baby sitting in a pile of foamy liquidly poop, she laughs, but I'm sure cleaning that stain will be less than funny.

Mirroring Joe's story is a series of testimonial videos submitted by people who saw the first film; their personal, intimate and often funny stories show that wanting to change is often easier than actually doing so.

A lot of people I know call this one of the funniest movies of all time but I can easily name 10 funnier films than this, like Caddyshack, Dumb and Dumber or even Abduction.

There are moments where Django Unchained feels like Quentin Tarantino's take on Blazing Saddles, for example, particularly a sequence involving the KKK that plays far funnier than the rest of the tone of the film.

I've never actually seen «Lady Windermere's Fan» performed, on stage or on film, but I'll guess that, given its numerous adaptations over the years, that it is generally delivered in a much funnier and respectable fashion than it is in A Good Woman.

Not only do you get more pie with this longer cut of the film but there are also some surprisingly good deleted scenes (touching rather than funny).

A lot funnier than you remember it, Carol Reed's immortal 1949 film noir seems to exist in the space between two worlds: an earlier time when thrillers were mostly serious affairs, and a future one, when such supremely witty entertainments felt passé.

One of the greatest and funniest horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something smaller and simpler, but it turned out to be way too different than expected!

He also has the film's only funny lines («I'm the world's first fully functional homicidal artist»), and often sounds more than a little like Liberace.

Yet the execution isn't as funny as it sounds, with the film more concerned with fart jokes than edgy political satire.

A technologically marvelous animated movie that's just as funny and inventive as the first, but also more emotionally engaging than most live - action films.

For the most part, the film just motors along without any real high points, while Wilde's derogatory views on women seems even more dated and out - of - place, rather than being particularly funny.

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.

This film is funnier than the first, but in no way is it better.

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.

A vanity project from successful Hollywood screenwriter Mitch Glazer, this film should really be much funnier than it is.

This power dynamic is probably funniest to Indian film buffs since they already know that Bachchan is, in real life, only ten years older than Kapoor.

However, the plot moves forward a bit quicker than it should and becomes more dramatised in it's second half and it is an undeniably predictable storyline but unlike his more recent films it's decently written, well intended and quite funny.

Game Night «s ability to never doubt its characters or their reactions in situations is what makes the film truly feel funnier than it probably is.

Smith seems to be lampooning that motivation more than endorsing it, but as with so much of the rest of the film, the jokes just aren't funny.

From start to finish, the film tries so hard to scare, but it's funnier than it is scary.

The set - up of the film — 12 - year - old Zain sues his parents for being born — turned some critics off, but The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw sees a «much angrier, tougher — and sometimes funnier — film than you might imagine from its cloying opening premise.»

Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf are terrific in this funny, charming and grounded film about growing up a girl from a modest family discovering herself and aspiring to more than what is expected of her, and parents making hard sacrifices and letting go.

Very Bad Things likely read better as a screenplay than it plays on film because the idea of what's going on is funnier than the actual execution.

Crusty characters, a bluegrass soundtrack and a dysfunctional family that could exist only in the minds of Hollywood screenwriters make this film more precious than real — or funny.

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 ****

It can't be easy to keep a comedy on track when the underlying emotions are so vicious, and indeed DeVito's staging slips more than once — too realistic here, too broad there — resulting in a film that is at least as often funny - peculiar as it is funny - haha.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) that do indeed provoke some inquiry towards the subject of dying and the boundaries of morality - but this film does none of that, Haneke's objective here is no different than in Funny Games: he simple wants to use the shock value to prove that we are captivated to a sickening extent by watching horror unfold before us.

At its best, Paul Feig's film is more than just funny.

Anderson's seventh feature film is a groovy, richly funny stoner romp that has less in common with «The Big Lebowski» than with the strain of fatalistic,»70s - era California noirs («Chinatown,» «The Long Goodbye,» «Night Moves») in which the question of «whodunit?»

It is much more like a comedy film than an action movie, and the comedy isn't even funny.

The Madness of Ken Jeong is amazingly funny as the flamboyant Asian of the film goes on freestyle rants that are funnier than most of the film.

In one of the more clever twists, Enter the Dragon's sex slave scene tosses in a different spin — making the women into men — funny, and done with more subtlety than most other films would have shown.

It's funny, but it's also Phillips» most dramatic and political film, owing to the fact that it takes place during the Iraq War and tells the insane true story of a pair of cocky, Scarface - aspiring gun runners (played by Jonah Hill and Miles Teller) who bite off more than they can chew.

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.

The visual style of the film impresses, it's just that the jokes never quite catch fire like they should — they are more funny in the mind than in the gut.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

Steve Carell is an undeniably funny guy, but not in that «carry a bad film to success» way that Carrey was able to do earlier in his career, When you realize that Carell got more laughs in the miniscule amount of screen time he had in Bruce Almighty than he does in the 90 minutes he is in front of the camera for this sequel, that's really all you need to know in terms of this film's overall comedic quality.

This sequel, following Kenneth Branagh's reasonably funny 2011 film, was written by no less than five writers, who between them have only mustered another dull, achingly generic story about saving the world.

But while the folks at LEGO have undoubtedly seen a nice bump in business since its release, the film is so much more than that — smart, funny and surprisingly heartfelt.

This is a sore spot for me as a result of there's a funny story within the film that isn't within the film now as a result of — I'm more than likely no longer even allowed to mention this — Fox made me take it out.

One of the curious aspects of the film is that even though it's more of a character study than an outright comedy, that character is a legendary comic who's not really that funny.

The film, which features the extraordinary cast of Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Marvel, and Adam Sandler (exercising welcomed restraint, i.e., more «Punch Drunk Love» than «You Don't Mess with the Zohan») is a poignant, funny reflection on the stories that get told (over and over and over again) and how they sculpt who we are.

The film will also be a lot funnier than any previous X-Men or Fantastic Four movie.