Sentences with phrase «gags fell flat»

No matter how far «Deadpool 2» thinks it's pushing boundaries, it makes sure that even when a gag falls flat, the joke is always on you.

Some parts are funny, but most of the time, the gags falls flat, and halfway through the film, everything just falls apart.

Lamely scripted by Nicholas Thomas and director Luke Greenfield («The Animal»), this tedious wannabe action comedy misfires from the get - go, as gag - after - gag falls flat.

At its worst, there's something mustily mid -»90s about its self - congratulatory rudeness, its sensibilities lying somewhere between a Farrelly brothers film and a Mountain Dew commercial... No matter how far «Deadpool 2» thinks it's pushing boundaries, it makes sure that even when a gag falls flat, the joke is always on you.

«CHIPS» doesn't break any new ground, but it delivers on its promise, even if the gags fall flat at times.

But for the most part, the filmmakers» gags fall flat.

But many of the gags fall flat — Deanna's flop - sweat - and - fainting oral presentation in archaeology class; her trashing of her remarrying ex-husband's wedding reception; a painfully telegraphed celebrity cameo — and there's virtually no flow from one scene to the next.

Not exact matches

All those sneering gags about Ed Miliband that David Cameron had planned for this week will fall flat as the edges of the Prime Minister's authority over his own party continue to fray and his future now firmly lies in the hands of Ukip's «fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists».

I think that's pretty bad because, this could have been a good little comedy, instead it falls flat, and the gags are strained, unfunny and overall pointless.

There are some gags that do fall flat.

The movie consequently suffers from a lack of authenticity that is, to put it mildly, somewhat troublesome, with the pervasively smug atmosphere heightened by an emphasis on jokes and gags of an eye - rollingly desperate nature (eg an ongoing bit involving pro snowboarder Shaun White falls completely flat).

It feels like a slapdash collection of scenes rather than a balloon sent smoothly aloft, with jokes often falling as flat as Cena's buzz cut (a running gag centers on his tough - guy character's propensity for crying, a go - to bit that ages fast).

The majority of its gags fall woefully flat, and its brief, 83 - minute running time often seems to drag for an eternity.

With virtually the same blend of wit and idiocy as the 2001 original, this fashion - scene comedy is funny enough to spark some solid laughter in between the gags that fall flat.

An extended sequence about Thor having grown up without ever learning the colors falls flat, as does a mini-running gag about a misspelled note by Frank kept as a keepsake by Violet.

Wirkola attempts to balance his over-the-top gore with gags, but the jokes often fall flat.

As you can imagine, this causes the setup for a variety of old person vs. technology gags that all fall terribly flat.

From daft gags like the dog poop walking itself to the toilets to seen - a-millions-times-before scenes like asking for a bigger penis the minute you realise you have powers, every attempt to save the movie with yet another joke falls flat.

There are flashes of wit — mostly tied to Greta Gerwig's airy turn as an amateur self - help guru — but running gags about suicide and anal sex fall painfully flat, and once the movie's minor charms are exhausted, it simply grinds.

, get a laugh every time, while a random running gag involving a sandwich shop falls flat.

In fact, to my taste Allen's more prosaic sight gags — the monster breast in Everything, the helicopter business in Sleeper — tend to fall flat.

Aside from a few decent sight gags and a clever bit where Mitch battles a fleeing henchman hiding in a little girl's bedroom, leading the combatants to attack each other with the dainty décor at hand, the dated humor falls flat.

Of course, like practically all comedies centering on a boorish and unlikable individual, this wraps up with a few insincere moments of character maturity and empathy, but here such bits are no harder to take than the desperate gags flailing and falling flat at a rapid clip.

Of course, not all of the jokes work, and some of the gags fall very flat.

The lazy script substitutes goofy situations for actual gags, much of which falls flat under Rob Pritts» plodding direction, and the comedy sours with a contempt for the audience.

While there are some laughs to be had here and there, many of the jokes end up either falling flat or are so tacky or distasteful that they result in taking us momentarily out of the mood to laugh at the next gag or two.

Some of the gags stall — the scenes of the movie within the movie are so uncomfortably, purposely bad that the joke falls flat early on — but most of this is very funny stuff.