Sentences with phrase «gags involves»

He was certainly one of the most lampooned, as evidenced by a recurring «Tonight Show» gag involving a dance troupe called «The Dancing Itos,» clad in glasses, beards and judicial robes.

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.

«The Walk» is worth seeing on a big screen for its final wire walk (intrusive voice - over notwithstanding), for its lovingly recreated images of the World Trade Center, for its often wry humor (including a marvelous running gag involving an elevator operator) and for some of the supporting performances (notably Kingsley's pitch - perfect mentor performance, and James Badge Dale's turn as a wise - ass Franco - American who joins the team infiltrating the towers).

Other embarrassing misfires include gags involving animal abuse, cinderblock emasculation, reckless driving, and so on.

Anchorman 2, which was written by Ferrell and McKay, is better when it gives in to absolute absurdity: A sight gag involving a slo - mo RV crash is totally, dismissively dumb, but the fact that it's set to Captain and Tennille's «Muskrat Love» makes it inexplicably hilarious.

There are some clever digs at famous shows - «Cirque so lame» is mentioned, and there's a running gag involving a Bengal tiger that keeps mauling a Vegas showman, who always appears swathed in bandages - but the comedy never totally catches fire and it feels rather formulaic.

«Cirque so lame» is mentioned, and there's a running gag involving a Bengal tiger that keeps mauling a Vegas showman

The only reason he's in the film is to motivate an opening gag involving tumbleweed and to bestow some kind of authorial sanction on the hero.

Aside from a quick, one - shot sight gag involving Wilson and a bunch of balloons, on a trip to a zoo, Johnson overemphasizes the comedy and strains for the sentimental connection.

There is a particularly inspired running gag involving something so simple: anytime someone slams open the front door, coming out of the blustery cold and into Minnie's Haberdashery, they are forced to nail it shut with boards of wood and be yelled at by those already inside and keeping warm by the fire.

When Old School does take time away from the sophomoric humor for the sentimental scenes, it is clearly busting at the seams to jump into the next gag involving boobs and blowjobs.

When the funniest scene in a comedy is a sight gag involving Kevin Smith, you might be in dangerous waters.

A broad slapstick gag involving a mishap with Brad steering Dusty's motorcycle is almost surreal in its over-the-top absurdity that one can't help but cackle.

But Billboards still speaks the language of film, with incredibly well - staged scenes and a great visual gag involving Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell) and his music.

Stefano deserves his own feature spin - off, Puss in Boots - style, and I admire that for as stretchy and physics - defying as it all is, it declines to show the most impossible trick in favour of a gag involving the transference of Marty's circus afro.

After establishing the high stakes and bleak future of our world, the movie quickly shifts gears into a more comic mode, with the process of downsizing providing an opportunity for materialistic wish fulfillment, an ironic realization that matters of class still exist even in this idealized world, and more than a few sight gags involving the juxtaposition of the normal - sized world with the small one.

For every sequence involving Lino's parkour skills — usually followed by a shot of Damien looking on in disbelief (Walker, playing second fiddle in terms of physicality, displays a real sense of self - deprecating humor in these moments)-- or a neat gag involving two bricks, two cars, and two perfectly timed landings, there are at least two setpieces that are rather nondescript.

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND: The original Deadpool script had a recurring gag involving the troubled singer, Amy Winehouse.

Thor: Ragnarok ends with one final gag involving the fate of Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster.

Exhibiting signs of drug - fueled brain damage, Galifianakis confidently treats the film's first half as a personal showcase, nailing so many weirdly uncomfortable one - liners — including a priceless gag involving an infant and simulated masturbation — that despite the predictable homophobic barbs marring the early mood, he single - handedly inspires confidence in the zaniness promised by the subsequently established premise.

Mixing animation and graphics into live action, Super Capers is packed with referential fan universe gags involving everything from X-Men and Star Wars to The Matrix and Men in Black.

The backstory is so unnecessary in Rodriguez» mind that there's a hilarious gag involving a missing reel that happens at the climax of an appropriately hokey sex scene and bypasses key plot points.

Take Fifty Shades Of Black, the Marlon Wayans Fifty Shades Of Grey parody that comes out this weekend: Based on its trailer, it's practically guaranteed to feature at least one gag involving someone farting during sex.

Director Lone Scherfig deftly captures the period, in terms of the filmmaking process and techniques (There's an amusing gag involving a matte painting of Dunkirk superimposed over a calm English beach), as well as the look and atmosphere of dread in the background.

(In this case, the sequence anticipates a later rescue mission that culminates in an effectively unexpected gag involving a bus's «Out of Service» light.)

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

The gag involves not one, but multiple women that need assistance in bringing their babies in carriages up or down the steps, while the cops try valiantly to get them out of the way for the big shootout that's about to emerge.

From the opening credits to an early gag involving a portrait artist, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures Of Tintin formally announces its intent to respect the style and vision of Hergé, the Belgian artist who created Tintin and took the boy reporter / adventurer through two dozen books of comic - book adventures over the course of more than 40 years.

Beetle Juice cannily avoids answering these questions with a running gag involving the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, a manual that reportedly «reads like stereo instructions.»

There's a gag involving Christopher Meloni soiling himself while wearing a superhero costume that felt so juvenile it belonged in a Seltzer and Friedberg movie as opposed to one with people of this intelligence behind it and a sight gag with a waiter played by Zak Orth having a literal pole up his ass was particularly groan - worthy.

The best gag involves the manner in which the tunnel diggers dispose of their unwanted dirt and other rubbish.

Award: The Assassin Least Sexy Movie: 50 Shades of Grey (Runner - up: A LEGO Brickumentary) Best Tolkien Reference: The Martian Best Gag Involving a Hammer: Avengers: Age of Ultron Best Joke About Naming Your Fists «Cagney and Lacey»: Spy Best Celebrity Cameo: LeBron James, Trainwreck Best Imaginary Friend: Bing Bong, Inside Out Most Awkward Interplay Between Real and Fictional Theme Parks: Tomorrowland (Runner - up: Jurassic World) Best Contact Lenses: Johnny Depp, Black Mass Best Eyeglasses: Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Best Glass Eye: Christian Bale, The Big Short Best Robot: Ava (Ex Machina) Worst Robot: Chappie (Chappie) The Cameron Crowe Award for a Soundtrack in Search of a Movie: Aloha Best Aerial Stunt: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Runner - up: Spectre) Worst Oven - Cleaning Method: The Visit Worst Misuse of a Juice Bottle: Sleeping with Other People Best Movie About Journalism: Spotlight Worst Movie About Journalism: Truth The Sudden Ubiquity Award: Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, Brooklyn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Revenant); Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road; Legend; The Revenant); Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Mojave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Best Dog - boy: Jack Bright, The Good Dinosaur Worst Dog - man: Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending Worst Implicit Historical Comparison: Moving the events of The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina's Dirty War to post-9 / 11 America Best Backward - Looking Reboot: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Worst Backward - Looking Reboot: Terminator Genisys Best Home Movies: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nicest Russian Spy: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies Trends of the Year: Women ruling comedy (Trainwreck, Spy); an overdue pushback against CGI (Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens); sneakily feminist themes in summer sequels (Magic Mike XXL, Mad Max: Fury Road); spy spoofs (Spy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, the final third of Spectre)

Though some viewers may find themselves playing spot - the - author with the patchy script (e.g., a fight scene gag involving The Cure's Disintegration, which smacks of Wright), it still makes for an enjoyable, intermittently inspired effects - driven comedy and a welcome antidote to the over-burdened world - saving that seems to define big - screen superhero stories.

A gag involving a windmill seems influenced by the Dwan version, while the Wizard of Oz blueprint is so manifest — Mickey needs athleticism (a good heart, in not so many words), Donald needs courage, Goofy needs a brain — that it's a mystery why the film wasn't conceived whole as a salute to L. Frank Baum's enduring mythology.

(There are even gags involving Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer.)

But under the weight of the pro forma shootouts and car chases that ensue, all the code - switching culture - clash comedy feels weak and belabored here — particularly a running gag involving Clarence's efforts to sell the hip - hop - loving Blips on the paler charms of George Michael.

Worst - case scenario: The initial trailer for the film relies more on scatological humor — one prominent gag involves a music box being stuck in a supporting character's butt — than sparkling dialogue, raising the question of whether Fey and Poehler's chemistry is enough to overcome even the dumbest script.

They include children playing with adult props, cheetahs pursuing humans on four wheelers, Nickens leading a safari in a rendition of Michael Jackson's «Wan na Be Startin» Somethin'», and another gag involving the frisky couple (played by Kevin Nealon and Jessica Lowe).

The physical gag involving the Hollywood sign and a sudden fear of heights wasn't a huge hit for me.

Mild scatological humor including flatulence and a sight gag involving a urinal deodorizer.

At one point, it's knockoff Farrelly brothers, with broad physical gags involving a violent raccoon and unsubtle masturbation jokes.

There's a great gag involving a man dressed in a large Farquaad head who follows the roped off line to escape Shrek.

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.

Director Bryan Buckley, a television commercial veteran, stages one outlandishly funny gag involving two gymnasts in a bedroom, but he also seems to really feel for these characters.

It suffers from inconsistent pacing, and some of its gross - out humor — like a gag involving Deeds» frostbitten foot — feel out of place here.

Peter Rabbit is well written — courtesy Rob Lieber and director Will Gluck — and has a lot of pretty great jokes, and one KILLER gag involving Bananagrams.

The jokes come fast and furious, with almost all of them landing (except one gag involving an anthropomorphic penis that gets stale after two minutes).

There are a few amusing sight gags involving Segel and a German shepherd (animal lovers may disagree), but almost every other joke is a retread.

Isaac is on a drug binge, because his wife's present was a box of «every drug,» so the gags involving him are brought about by his increasing paranoia and deteriorating physical state.

(An unusually subtle gag involves Patrick Warburton, returning as John and Ted's friend Guy, roaming the halls of New York Comic Con dressed as The Tick.